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Data Historian31 Mar 2026
Why Choose Factorian?
The Ultimate Hybrid and Federated Enterprise Historian Architecture for Modern Manufacturing Bring Your Own Hardware (BYOH): Maximum Flexibility for Your Industrial Data. Factorian Historian now supports seamless installation on your existing VM infrastructure. Build a distributed network by mixing and matching Factorian’s rugged fanless devices...
Data HistorianIndustry 4.028 Sep 2025
Why Historians Matter More Than Ever—and Why Factorian Is the Future of Industrial DataOps
In the race toward digital transformation, one unsung hero quietly powers the insights behind smarter decisions, resilient operations, and scalable innovation: the historian. Historians—industrial data historians—are the backbone of time-series data capture and contextualization. They chronicle the heartbeat of machines,...
Edge ComputingFDA12 Jan 2025
Beaming Machine Data to Cloud: FDA Compliance & Cost Risks
Recently FDA came out with a discussion paper on Artificial Intelligence in drug manufacturing. These have interesting questions that we have also been pondering over since we began working on our Factorian edge computing platform. The first point that FDA discussions...
Edge ComputingIndustry 4.022 Dec 2024
Why Industry 4.0 Needs Cloud-Native Edge & Event Data
As more automation drives processes and continuous manufacturing replaces traditional manual batch manufacturing, access to real-time streaming data will become critical to pharmaceutical, biologics and speciality fine chemical manufacturing operations. A basic data landscape for operations and activities that currently...
Data HistorianIndustry 4.012 Sep 2024
Why Modern Factories Need an Open & Scalable Historian
If you are managing a pharmaceutical, chemical or any process manufacturing operations and wanted to collect data from your process machines and operations, chances are you are either dependent on vendor of the process machine to access your data, its...
FDAIndustry 4.018 Jan 2024
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Future of Smart Factories
Traditional enterprise information technology software tools and solutions have found it hard to make inroads into the manufacturing and industrial automation world on the manufacturing shop floor. This can be attributed as the main root cause of IT (Information Technology) and...