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The case for using AI/LLMs in manufacturing is compelling to say the least. Imagine just asking your phone for the batch report for a batch that came back with a complaint, and getting the answer right away instead of having to sift through data or reports.

Factry is built on open-source software. This is one of our strengths. However, it often leads to a very reasonable question from potential customers: If all this software is open source, why would we need Factry at all? Why can’t we just build our own data historian?

With Factry Historian V8 we removed the everyday friction that slows factories down. From clearer insights to faster configuration and smarter KPIs, V8 helps teams understand what happened and why, without extra work.

Companies that don't enable self-service data exploration and dashboard creation pay a hidden but substantial cost. Not in system failures or compliance issues, but in missed opportunities that never get identified and underutilized teams who stop engaging with data altogether.

Your factory has thousands of assets, pumps, valves, ... running calculations on them and deploying scripts shouldn't be done one by one. Here's how to use a single dynamic script across many assets.

Learn how Factry’s Historian data source for Grafana empowers engineers and operators to build structured, reusable dashboards. Making process data accessible to everyone on the factory floor. Featuring a real-world example from Agristo.

Factry's Data Engineering team is always busy helping clients fix errors in their setup, in this blogpost they've listed some of the most common OPC-UA and Time Synchronization errors, and show you how to fix them.

Discover Jeroen Coussement's predictions for the 2025 process industry

Factry Historian v7.2: New usability features for better workflows – Factry - Discover Factry Historian v7.2, time to distance conversion, flexible MQTT egress, and smarter Parquet storage. Explore the latest improvements.