Author Archives: John Rinaldi
Beyond the Algorithm: Why Standardized Data Models Matter More Than AI
What John Rinaldi shared during his Automate 2026 presentation on building scalable Industrial AI. Artificial [...]
Jun
Industrial Control Comes to the Data Center
There is revolutionary change in how we build data centers. Compared to what we are [...]
Jun
Monitoring a Modern Data Center From the Proverbial “Single Pane of Glass”
I have a colleague who loves the phrase “Back in the day…” and uses it [...]
Jun
How to Pick a Communications Protocol for a Data Center
If you’re a system integrator, it’s easy to burn three weeks of commissioning time and [...]
Jun
AI Data Centers Have a Communications Protocol Problem
I remember when data centers used to be quiet rooms full of servers that required [...]
Jun
How Metadata Makes Manufacturing Data Models AI-Ready
Standardized, consistent metadata is what turns a manufacturing data model from a tidy structure into [...]
May
Standardized Data Models: The Quiet Requirement Behind Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing programs often fail for a non-glamorous reason: the data is not structured consistently [...]
May
Why IEC 62443 Is Quickly Becoming Required for Industrial Vendors
Industrial manufacturers are changing how they evaluate vendors. Cybersecurity is no longer treated as a [...]
Apr
It Works Until It Doesn’t: The Deceptive Success of Using a PLC as a Data Server
He wanted data. He got a production problem. Users often like to use their PLC [...]
Apr
Why Local Data Context Is Now Mandatory
In Industry 3.0, most data stayed inside the plant. SCADA could handle a lot of [...]
Apr
