The Hardware of the Future: Industrial Web

Software ate the world, then bumped into physics: power, heat, supply chains, and the messiness of the physical plant. The next chapter belongs to teams that can connect OT and IT without pretending they are the same thing.

This issue looks at industrial web patterns—edge compute, digital twins, and governed data paths between shop floor and cloud—and why governance matters as much as latency.

Leaders should leave with a simple test: if you cannot explain where data is born, who can change it, and how it is retained, you do not have an architecture yet. You have a demo.