Data Fabric

Data Fabric is the podcast from cts Group Industrial Informatics. We talk to the people who connect shop floors to the cloud — system integrators, consultants, researchers and plant engineers who deal with OT/IT convergence, industrial data platforms and digital twins every day. This podcast is about having conversations about what it actually takes to turn scattered production data into a reliable foundation for real-world use cases. New episodes drop regularly.

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Data-Driven Pharma — Why Technology Alone Doesn't Fix the Shop Floor

Data-Driven Pharma — Why Technology Alone Doesn't Fix the Shop Floor

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In this episode, Florian Seidl, Business Unit Manager for Industrial Informatics at cts Group, sits down with Florian Werner, Principal Consultant at Xenium, to discuss what it actually takes to turn fragmented shop floor data into usable, scalable information in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The conversation starts with what both see in reality when they walk into a pharma production site: package-unit driven organizations where every line comes from a different vendor, data lives in isolated PLCs with inconsistent naming, and the focus is on keeping production running — not on data strategy. From there, they work through the entire arc of...