Click. Tap. Click. That is the sound of money in the 21st century. Big Tech has turned into one of the world’s most profitable and culturally dominant industries, and it’s done it by tracking, harnessing, and profiting from our attention. Every time we click or tap our laptops or phones, Big Tech, through its mysterious algorithms, knows something about us that it didn’t before.
Those clicks and taps are analogous to industrial sensors; the former opens a window into human behavior, the latter measures the performance of machinery and systems. Sensors on machinery, from the smallest press brake to the most expansive flexible manufacturing system, have been around for years. But what about sensors that can work together to measure and autonomously improve an entire fab shop, tracking everything from the receiving dock to the shipping dock?
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