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EXECUTIVE BRIEF: What does Schneiders acquisition of PTC mean for the major OT vendor landscape? We attempt to answer that question in this article. What actually happened On 4 October 2026, PTC signed a merger agreement under which a Schneider Electric subsidiary merges into PTC, leaving PTC a wholly owned Schneider subsidiary. Holders are to receive $205 per share in cash. Equity value is roughly $22.6 billion, enterprise value $23.7 billion, and the price is a 42.3% pre

OT BRIEF: Here we analyze the reasons why automation vendors position where they are open in their offerings. Contact us for a comprehensive vendor comparison A Rule Hiding in Plain Sight Every major automation vendor now leads with openness. Open ecosystems, open standards, open architectures, open automation: the vocabulary is uniform across the tier, from the largest DCS incumbent to the newest software entrant. And on the surface the claims are individually true. The co

AI TECHNICAL BRIEF: We explore the realities of deploying ML at the OT Edge Condition monitoring of rotating machinery has become the flagship use case for machine learning at the OT edge, and for a structural reason: sound and vibration are dense signals. A single sensor emits hundreds of kilobytes per second, and no plant can round-trip that volume to a cloud and expect real-time answers. Interpretation has to happen where the data is born. Add the environments that defi