Tagged industrial-automation
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What a Minute of Line Downtime Buys You in Architecture
Downtime on an automated line runs from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars an hour. Convert that to a per-minute figure and it becomes an engineering budget, which changes what is worth building. The interesting consequence is not that you should spend more. It is that the false-positive and false-negative costs are wildly asymmetric, and almost nobody sets the operating point from the plant's economics.
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PLC to Model: Where Industrial AI Actually Breaks
The model is rarely the problem on a factory floor. The problem is the path between the controller and the model: a protocol implemented as the vendor felt like implementing it, a timing budget with the round-trip inside it, a controller that cannot be taken out of service, and a boundary that belongs to neither the automation team nor the data team.