
Insights
Notes from real deployments

Why edge-first architecture keeps paying off after year one
Centralised data pipelines look efficient on a slide. On a plant floor with intermittent connectivity, the edge is what keeps production and reporting honest.

Building a defect library that survives the pilot
Vision pilots fail for organisational reasons more often than model reasons. A labelled, owned defect library fixes most of them.

BlueTech opens an integration lab in Suzhou
The new lab lets customers test edge hardware, vision and energy systems against their own samples before committing to a line.

GridPilot EMS 3.2 adds tariff modelling and EnPI baselines
The release brings multi-tariff reconciliation, automatic baseline recalculation and a faster load-shifting workspace.

What a realistic OT security baseline looks like
You do not need to air-gap the plant. You need an inventory, a traffic baseline and a change process people actually follow.

Customer day 2026: six plants, six different starting points
Operations leaders from automotive, electronics and food manufacturing shared what actually moved the needle in their first year.