industrial-automation The Software Development Skills Gap in Industrial Automation The industry's real shortage isn't controls engineers or software developers. It's people who bridge both. And AI agents just inverted the gap: all the software half, none of the controls judgment.
Optix Perspective to Optix Automated Conversion Tooling A deterministic converter reads an Ignition Perspective project and builds a native FactoryTalk Optix project: tags, reusable types, screens, to live bindings. Same export in, same project out. Three screens from Inductive's public demo, measured.
ai-tooling Where are you in the loop? Four shapes of AI. Same model, four different shapes: Ask, Assist, Delegate, Automate. Where you sit in the loop determines what the AI can do and what can quietly go wrong.
Blog The Architecture Advantage: Why Proper Source Control & Reusable Components Determine ROI Why version control and component-based architecture decide the ROI of your automation platform — applies to both PLC and HMI development.
