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Built-In AI in the TDengine Historian: From Question to Root Cause

From a Single Question to a Root Cause Investigation For years, industrial AI has been associated with large projects. Build an AI agent. Connect it

Arun Arulraj

July 8, 2026 | News

TDengine Historian Excel Add-In: Analyze Industrial Data in Excel

Key takeaways Industrial data analysis in Excel with the TDengine Historian Excel Add-In If you’ve used PI DataLink, you already understand TDengine EAI PI DataLink

Jim Fan

July 7, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System, Data Historian, Industrial Data

TDengine TSDB in Shale Gas: From Data Silos to Unified Operations

In shale gas production operations, automated data collection was already in place across gas wells, stations, compressors, and LNG/CNG facilities. But earlier SIS, BPCS, SCADA,

TDengine Team

July 2, 2026 | Case Studies, Industrial Data

How TDengine Historian Heatmaps Reveal Equipment Operating Patterns

In a typical factory scenario, 30 compressors report three Tags: temperature, pressure, and vibration. Over three months, that adds up to tens of millions of

Arun Arulraj

June 29, 2026 | Industrial Data

PI Works. Moving the Data is the Hard Part

After many conversations with PI users globally, one pattern keeps coming up: the issue is not whether historian data exists, but how easily teams can

Jim Fan

June 27, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System

How Candlestick Charts Reveal Industrial Data Fluctuations

For three decades, the Line Chart has dominated industrial equipment monitoring. Temperature, pressure, vibration, current. Whenever time-series data needs visualization, the default is a curve.

Arun Arulraj

June 26, 2026 | Industrial Data

PI System Replacement Does Not Have to Be Rip-and-Replace

Many plants have built critical operational workflows around PI. But PI modernization does not have to be a big-bang, rip-and-replace project.

Jim Fan

June 4, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System

TDengine Strengthens Industrial Automation Partner Network with CSE ICON

TDengine has partnered with CSE ICON, a leading industrial automation and systems integration company, to deliver modern industrial data infrastructure solutions to customers across North America.

TDengine Team

May 28, 2026 | News

TDengine Partners with SAINTI to Drive Industrial Data Innovation in South Korea

TDengine today announced a new reseller partnership with South Korea-based SAINTI, a specialist in AI-powered smart factory solutions and industrial digital transformation.

TDengine Team

April 21, 2026 | News

TDengine vs. PI System: Total Cost of Ownership Explained

In many real-world deployments, TDengine delivers comparable capabilities at roughly one-third the cost of PI System, while reducing complexity and improving scalability.

Jim Fan

April 15, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System

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