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Shifting the Focus in Industrial System Integration: Prioritizing Standards, Minimizing Tools, and Focusing on Process Expertise Over Multi-Vendor Tech Builds

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System integrators create greater long-term value by prioritizing process improvement over technology assembly. By minimizing software toolsets and deepening domain expertise, SIs can reduce maintenance complexity, improve operational performance, and deliver stronger return on investment.

How to Build a Best-in-Class Industrial Facility in a Multi-Vendor World

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Most industrial facilities use equipment from many vendors, which makes integration challenging. This blog explains why multi-vendor environments are the norm, how interoperability issues arise, and how connectivity middleware like DeviceXPlorer OPC Server enables reliable data exchange and unified operations. 

Driving Digital Transformation in Southeast Asia’s Oil and Gas Industry

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Discover how automation and digital transformation are reshaping the oil and gas sector in Southeast Asia and how the GENESIS SCADA and HMI platform by Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions enables companies to connect, visualize, and optimize operations across the energy value chain.

Industrial Digital Transformation: What Success Looks Like

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Industrial digital transformation can feel uncomfortable at first—much like starting a new fitness routine—but it delivers measurable, long-term gains. This blog outlines six key components of transformation success and shows how Italian bakery Drago Forneria Genovese modernized its operations using these principles while preserving its artisanal quality.

Overcoming the Top 5 Barriers to Industrial Digital Transformation

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Industrial digital transformation often stalls on legacy equipment, data silos, cybersecurity gaps, vendor lock-in, and resistance to change. This blog shares field-tested solutions to overcome these barriers and shows how GENESIS, the advanced SCADA platform from Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions, provides a scalable, secure foundation for sustainable modernization.

Enabling Your Company’s Industrial Transformation (IX)

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Organizations can ensure a successful industrial transformation by approaching the process with a narrow focus and limited scope through several basic steps: Use the SMKL Method to assess your digitalization needs; define your value levers; and build a partner ecosystem that understands what your success looks like. 

Understanding Digital Transformation & Assessing Where You Are on This Journey 

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Digital transformation is the process, many call it a journey, of incorporating digital solutions, strategies, and advanced technologies into traditional industrial factories/processes to bring about smart industrial factories/processes with greatly improved operations, productivity and work efficiency. It's a game changer for achieving operational optimization and improving your business model - which is why it’s crucial to assess where you are in this journey and to have the best plan in place.  

New Industrial Apps & Platforms Make a Digital Future Possible for All Companies, No Matter the Size

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This blog explores how the rise of micro cloud apps is reshaping the industrial software landscape—especially for small and mid-sized companies—by comparing it to the evolution of mobile gaming. It contrasts traditional SCADA platforms with emerging single-use cloud apps, highlighting trends in time-to-value, cloud adoption, and accessibility, and shares how Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions is adapting to serve this expanding market segment.