Manufacturing has a data problem that predates AI. Operational technology systems on the plant floor generate enormous volumes of data, and most of it never reaches the teams who need it most.
That is the problem Travis Cox, Chief Technology Evangelist at Inductive Automation, addressed in a recent interview with Nick Haase of MaintainX.
Cox described Ignition as a platform specifically designed to bridge the gap between plant floor operations and high-level business systems, a persistent friction point where data remains trapped in siloed systems and prevents teams from having a unified view of their operations.



