The Manufacturer's 2026 Manufacturing Momentum Report surfaced the automation questions that keep operations leaders up at night - and they are mostly about data, not robots.
Our take on each:
- Meaningful IT-OT convergence without disruption? That is exactly what Connect is built for - a bridge between industrial protocols (PLC, OPC UA, Modbus, RS232/485) and business systems (ERP, WMS, PLM, CRM), with real-time REST APIs and event-driven webhooks.
- What does a realistic single source of truth look like? Not one giant database - one consolidated, live view of machines, sensors and business systems that every role can trust.
- Prepare data foundations for AI without rebuilding everything? Connect to what you already run. The foundation is unified live data, not a new factory.
- Tackle decades of industrial data debt? Bring legacy equipment online alongside modern IoT, then standardise the data model centrally.
- Standardise across sites without killing local agility? A shared backbone with local control - common definitions, local execution.
See how we connect everything: https://kfactory.ai/platform/connect-overview
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