Insights

Notes from industrial data work.

Practical perspectives on data architecture, machine fleet analytics, and turning OT data into something a business can actually use. No hype, no stack preference. Just what works technically and commercially.

ACQUISITION OT PLC → gateway STORAGE & TRANSFORMATION EXTERNAL Platform cloud Storage via API. Managed. INTERNAL Your own cloud Azure / Fabric. You own it. hybrid Data model One reusable model Power BI Reporting per role
Architecture · Data strategy

Where should you store machine data: external or internal?

For most machine builders and manufacturers, hosting gets decided implicitly, by staying inside a platform. But it is an architectural choice that shapes scalability, cost, data ownership and your service model. A breakdown of the trade-offs, when each fits, and why a hybrid is often the most scalable answer.

Architecture · 8 min read

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Software

New on the IXON Marketplace: export your full machine fleet in one file

We built a new Cloud App for the IXON Marketplace that exports data across multiple machines and tags into one combined file, instead of one machine at a time. Available now, free to use.

Software

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Which Business Intelligence (BI) tool fits industrial and machine data?

BI tools are widely used in industry, but industrial data brings very different requirements depending on whether the goal is monitoring, analysis or decision support. An overview of the commonly used BI and visualization tools.

Insights

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TMI offers customers a Power BI connector to improve efficiency

TMI and their customers wanted decisions based on real-time machine data: a single source of truth for collection, visualization and API. They started working with IXON and a Power BI connector to combine IXON data with other sources.

Software

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StriData and IXON Cloud enter partnership to support integration with Azure and Power BI

IXON Cloud welcomes StriData as a Technology Alliance Partner to further support advanced machine analytics. Together they combine IXON Cloud with AWS, Azure and BI tools, so customers can analyse live and historical data from multiple sources.

Business

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What we write about

Architecture

Hosting choices, data ownership, and how to build a foundation that scales across an installed base instead of one customer at a time.

Fleet analytics

Turning connectivity into reporting: OEE, downtime, alarms and service insight that machine builders can offer to every customer.

OT, IT and business

Translating machine and process data into KPIs, dashboards and decisions that operations and management actually act on.

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