Industrial Automation posts

Kubernetes is excellent in the cloud, but the industrial edge has different constraints: intermittent networks, small hardware and OT teams. Is it too much?

Barbara, a UAO member, took part in the UAO Global Summit in Milan represented by its CEO David Purón. Three days on IEC 61499, industrial AI and IT-OT integration showed open automation moving into real plants.

Barbara joined ICC 2026 in Sacramento to show how Ignition runs across hundreds of distributed edge devices, with high availability and automatic failover built in.

Velasea will supply industrial PCs tested and prepared for Barbara, so companies can deploy applications and AI models across hundreds of industrial sites.

At Automate 2026 in Chicago, Barbara joined Schneider Electric to demo Open Software-Defined Automation running on an edge-native platform.

Most people in Industrial Automation still believe that hardware is inherently more reliable than software. But many of the assumptions behind that belief were formed decades ago, before connected operations, edge computing, and software-defined industrial systems became a reality. In this article, we challenge five of the most common myths about software in industrial environments.