>What techies keep getting wrong about industrial automation 1. Internet connections can be some combination of slow, unreliable, intermittent, or expensive.

>What techies keep getting wrong about industrial automation 1. Internet connections can be some combination of slow, unreliable, intermittent, or expensive. They also may be completely unavailable, although this is changing in the era of Starlink. 2a. Consumer grade compute hardware dies a quick death in harsh environments. 2b. Consumer grade compute hardware typically has more compute power than industrial rated computers. I've seen a handful software engineering teams have to drastically rebuild software because compute resource constraints were not realized until it was time to deploy software at the edge. 3. You are not allowed to push updates to your software willy nilly. 4. Service tech callout and installation costs are a big consideration for remote assets (oil wells, pipeline compressor stations, etc.), particularly at scale.