
This open-source bet is paying off as United Manufacturing Hub takes on industrial giants
For years, manufacturers have experimented with Industry 4.0 — running pilots in predictive maintenance, production monitoring, and AI-driven optimisation. Yet many of these initiatives struggled to move beyond proof-of-concept. The underlying problem wasn’t a lack of ideas, but the difficulty of accessing and structuring machine data across complex factory environments. United Manufacturing Hub Systems (UMH) is building an open-source data platform designed to solve exactly that challenge. The…

