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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.
Jeroen Coussement
Jul 22, 2025
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Want to trust your production data? Start exploring it yourself.
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.
Jeroen Coussement
Deploying a script to all assets in one click with Factry Historian
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.
Jente De Meyer
Factry Historian v7.3: Faster setup, time-weighted averages, improved Grafana dashboards.
We’ve focused on what matters most:
Cut setup time from hours to minutes with bulk asset and property imports. Build richer Grafana dashboards with advanced filtering, parent-child event logic, and SQL expressions. Get more accurate insights from sparse data using true time-weighted averages.
These enhancements make Factry Historian faster to configure, easier to use, and more reliable in real-world conditions.
Jente De Meyer
How the Factry Historian data source for Grafana enables data-driven insights for factory teams
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.
Frederik Van Leeckwyck
How data democracy changes everything in your plant, from productivity to engagement
Data democracy in manufacturing: faster decisions, higher engagement - How open access to real-time plant data boosts productivity, cuts waste and lifts engagement, and how a modern and open historian scales those gains across sites.
Jeroen Coussement
If your data can’t move, your factory won’t either - The state of Historians in 2025
Data historians in 2025: the foundation for scalable, AI-ready manufacturing - Open, structured data is the real AI enabler. Discover how next-gen historians make data explorable, reusable and ready to scale across your factory.
Jeroen Coussement
Report or suffer the consequences: How transparency in the process industry is opening the door to efficiency gains
Discover Jeroen Coussement's predictions for the 2025 process industry
Jeroen Coussement
Factry Historian v7.2: from time to distance, enhanced data egress and new event detection
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.
Frederik Van Leeckwyck
Behind the Scenes of Santa’s Workshop: How MES software Keeps Christmas on Track
Today we’ll take a sleigh ride behind the scenes of Santa Inc. to uncover how a robust MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is the beating heart of the operation and ensures that every present is delivered on time—and in perfect condition.
Sacha Barbieaux