Making industrial data accessible to everyone

Factry Historian is an industrial data platform built for process manufacturers who want to collect, contextualize and analyze data from their production environment. It connects to OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus and other industrial protocols to capture data from PLCs, SCADA systems and sensors, storing it and making the data available for industrial use cases like batch reporting, energy monitoring, and line monitoring.

Factry Historian v8.1, launched recently, features an MCP server that lets anyone from the shop floor to the top floor chat with production data in plain language. Instead of writing queries or building dashboards, an operator, engineer or manager can simply ask what happened on a line, when a batch deviated from setpoint, or how a machine performed last week, and get an answer grounded in real production data.

This realizes Factry Historian's promise of making data accessible to those who need it the most. It puts Industrial AI directly in the hands of the people who run the plant floor. By connecting large language models to live, contextualized production data through MCP, Factry closes the gap between complex industrial data and the people who need to act on it every day, without requiring technical expertise in data querying or dashboard design.