How HighByte and Snowflake Drive Industrial Data Transformation
In today’s digital landscape, industrial data comes from a variety of IT systems and Operational Technology (OT) sources, including historians, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), SCADA, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), databases, and files. This data is all extremely valuable; however, harnessing it effectively in the Cloud can be a major challenge.
Unlike IT data, OT data comes from diverse solution providers, has a lifecycle 10 times longer than IT systems, and is notoriously difficult to modify. These systems lack native interoperability with external platforms, produce raw data at high velocity, and often miss critical context. Without proper structuring, this raw industrial data is not readily usable for IT and Line of Business, preventing organizations from effectively leveraging their data for AI, analytics, and other digital transformation initiatives.
This is where Industrial DataOps comes in — converting raw OT data into a structured, contextualized format that “looks like” traditional IT data sources—making it easier to integrate, analyze, and scale across the enterprise using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for Manufacturing.
How HighByte and Snowflake Provide a Scalable Solution
HighByte Intelligence Hub offers industrial companies an off-the-shelf Industrial DataOps solution that enables the contextualization, standardization, and integration of operational data at scale. By deploying HighByte Intelligence Hub at the Edge, manufacturers can merge and model industrial data sources into structured payloads, creating robust, bi-directional data pipelines with Snowflake.
Together, HighByte and Snowflake help manufacturers build a Unified Namespace (UNS) and drive IT/OT convergence, turning raw industrial data into actionable insights and supporting various digital transformation initiatives, including:
- Normalizing ingestion of industrial datasets across systems, assets, lines, and sites.
- Contextualizing raw industrial data for use beyond OT process control.
- Eliminating tedious and unsustainable data preparation tasks in Snowflake.
- Enabling real-time ingestion of industrial events for enhanced operational visibility and decision-making.
- Backfilling and replicating databases and historians to ensure continuous data availability.
- Fostering collaboration between OT and IT subject matter experts.
- Securely managing data pipelines that meet the unique needs of industrial enterprises.
- Unlocking Industry 4.0 outcomes with AI-driven insights using Snowflake Cortex AI.
“With the Intelligence Hub, Snowflake customers will benefit from modeled industrial data that reflects the reality of their operations and not the constraints of a connector and underlying industrial data sources,” explained Pugal Janakiraman, Industry Field CTO for Manufacturing at Snowflake. “HighByte Intelligence Hub makes advanced use cases a reality for our industrial customers, including closed-loop event handling at the edge based on anomalies detected from ML/AI workloads in the Snowflake Data Cloud. We look forward to continued collaboration with HighByte to ensure our customers get even more value from Snowflake’s single, integrated platform.”
Learn More at Snowflake Accelerate Manufacturing
Interested in seeing real-world applications of industrial data transformation?
Join us at Snowflake Accelerate Manufacturing, an annual virtual event where industry leaders share how they leverage Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to drive efficiency and innovation. Attendees will gain insights into enterprise data architecture blueprints, explore AI/ML use cases, and witness real-world implementations that demonstrate the power of industrial data transformation.
In his 25-minute session, HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington will explore how manufacturers leverage AI to optimize production processes, improve quality control, and streamline operations. Learn best practices and hear directly from experts on how AI-driven solutions powered by Snowflake are transforming shop floor performance and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Register for the event here: Snowflake Accelerate Manufacturing.
