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What an industrial data historian actually does, how it differs from a generic database, and what separates a modern, open architecture from the legacy systems still running most plants.

This release centers on a complete rebuild of the REST API with lots of stability optimizations to improve and performance under load. There are also refinements to event and calculation workflows under the hood. All this results in noticeably faster asset trees, richer event detail and a more informative homepage.

The Factory Historian Connector for Ignition is available now! Mark a tag in Ignition once —> Factry Historian picks it up automatically. No duplicate setup, 30ms query latency, and your data open to any tool.

"Ignition v8.3 introduces a new public API that enables module developers to implement their own historians, making Ignition a platform for building historians." Here's what that means for you.

What batch analysis actually means, the methods teams use to compare and improve batches, and the one prerequisite most guides skip that decides whether any of it works.

SCADA historians are designed for operational access ie. high-frequency tag storage, real-time trend views, alarm history. They do that job well. They're not designed, however to handle long-term analytics, cross-system context, data access for teams outside the OT environment. That's a different job with different requirements.

Root cause analysis methodology takes twenty minutes. Finding the data to run it takes the other three hours. Here's why, and what actually fixes it.

How three fermentation and food & beverage giants replaced fragmented OT and IT systems with one unified data layer, and what became possible once they did.

Most factories already monitor energy at the site level. Rising energy prices mean that's no longer enough. This guide walks through how food manufacturers are moving from total-consumption monitoring to batch-level energy intelligence: what to meter, how to connect it to process data, and which KPIs actually drive action.