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    <description>Industry 4.0 engineer and technical writer. I connect factory floors to intelligent systems — IIoT, MES, ERP integration — and write about how it actually works.</description>
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      <description>If the same question arrives three times, the product didn&apos;t fail — the explanation did. How to run developer-tool support so the queue shrinks instead of growing.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Replacing clipboards with automated data acquisition across three production lines — the parts that were harder than expected, and the ones that were easier.</description>
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      <description>Machines know what they just did. Business systems need to know it in a form they can act on. Almost every Industry 4.0 project I&apos;ve seen struggles at exactly that boundary — here&apos;s why.</description>
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