I / my company was founded 10years back we focus on CNC Machines specifically. Recently with one our our clients we’ve been working with three leading iIot solutions; some mentioned in the article (we provide the data from the machine into there platforms) six months into the project it is really evident, domain knowledge is key to success. I believe there is an expectation that analytics, Machine Learning, Big Data etc can be applied without the knowledge and results can be delivered. The problem is automation equipment is not / has not been designed to deliver data at a scale this technology can be applied successfully, domain knowledge is still required to make it a success. Shameless plug www.cncdata.co.uk