Contextualization is an enduring goal for people who work with manufacturing data. As with anything, a manufacturing object or measurement makes sense only when we can know its origin and can compare it to other values. Given its importance to all human experience, however, the way that manufacturers and vendors typically think of context is […]

What Is ISA-95? Manufacturing Data & the Importance of a Single Ontology
Meta Description: ISA-95 offers manufacturers a way to standardize data under a single ontology. Here’s why it makes sense and what it means for governance.

Single points, graphs, rows, and columns.

This article reframes the debate around ISA-95 and explores how the right architecture enables a viable application of the standard.

How do you remove legacy systems without ripping and replacing or waiting until the hardware fails? Through integration, decoupling, and incremental change.

ISA-95 gets a lot of critique. People say the standard is outdated, complicated, impossibly abstract, rigid, inflexible, and applicable only to narrow problems in niche industries. These opinions are so well-known that even people who’ve never read the standard hold them! But such critiques seem strange when we consider Rhize’s customers: a diverse, forward-thinking crowd. All […]

What Is a Manufacturing Knowledge Graph? Data Hubs, MES & ISA-95
Meta Description: Knowledge graphs are transforming how manufacturers approach data infrastructure. We break down how they work and explore their advantages.

This blog provides a quick introduction to the tradeoffs between industrial historians and time-series databases from a practical, manufacturing-centered perspective. Why are we writing this? If you search the internet, you’ll find no shortage of blog posts about this topic. But, as it turns out, these posts are usually written by vendors of historians and […]