Siemens, Databricks & FFT Bridge the PLC-to-Cloud Divide for Scalable Industrial AI
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Siemens, Databricks & FFT Bridge the PLC-to-Cloud Divide for Scalable Industrial AI
The industrial world is sitting on a data goldmine it can barely access. An estimated
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, unable to scale beyond proof-of-concept because their production data , locked inside PLCs, proprietary control systems, and fragmented OT networks , never reaches the cloud in a usable form. That bottleneck just got a lot narrower.
Siemens, the global leader in industrial automation and PLC manufacturing, has announced a strategic
edge-to-cloud integration with Databricks and long-time automation partner FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH
that promises to turn siloed shopfloor data into enterprise-grade, AI-ready fuel , without the complexity of traditional IoT middleware.
This partnership represents one of the most consequential OT-IT convergence moves of 2026. By embedding the DataBridge connector directly into Siemens Industrial Edge and streaming data natively to the Databricks Lakehouse, the three companies have effectively created a
, something that previously required custom engineering, middleware stacks, and months of integration work per site.
, the company's secure, scalable edge computing platform , ingests raw telemetry from PLCs, drives, sensors, and other automation assets at the production level. The
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