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Rub-A-Dub-Dub...It's All About the Data Hub
If these terms leave you more confused than when you started reading, join the club. I am an OT guy, and so much of this was new to me. And it’s another reason to have a good IT/OT architect on your team. The bottom line is that these terms support the various perspectives that must be addressed in connecting and delivering data, from architecture and patterns to services and translation layers. Remember, we are not just talking about time-series or hierarchical asset data. Data such as time, events, alarms, units of work, units of production time, materials and material flows, and people can all be contextualized. And this is the tough nut to crack as the new OT Ecosystem operates in multiple modes, not just transactional as we find in the back office.