OT vs. IT: The Integration Debt That Stops Industrial Agents

Podcast: Rene Grywnow’s 5-Minute Business Punch · Rene Grywnow, DBA

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Part I argued the agent’s envelope is a leadership decision. Part II asks what happens when leadership signs off on an envelope the surrounding systems can’t support. Industrial agents fail less on models than on the systems and definitions they act through, they die on a 20-year ERP, an unnamed tag, and two definitions of “good.” The debt comes in two halves. OT debt: calculations living wherever was easiest, “good/scrap” differing line to line, exceptions living in operators’ heads not the historian. IT debt: 20-year ERPs with no usable API, data split across disconnected systems, the s...