[karmicthreat]

Its not quite that bad. You can have a plant edge device that pulls information out of your plant PLCs. Maybe without code changes on the PLC. This data can then go into an analytics platform for whatever reporting you want. The problem is nobody sees much value in the reporting.

[laythea]

I work in the industry and would agree. Also, nobody has software intelligent enough to extract the value out of the data. Maybe one day.