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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. But take motor winding temperature as an example. What operators actually care about is not the average. They want to know whether the temperature is climbing steadily or spiking suddenly,

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

TDengine Partners with Piramid to Deliver AI-Native Industrial Data Solutions in Chile

TDengine today announced a new value-added reseller partnership with Chile-based Piramid, a specialist in industrial data integration and IIoT solutions with a strong focus on the mining industry.

TDengine Team

April 15, 2026 | News

Modernizing Oilfield Data Infrastructure with TDengine at Sinopec

Sinopec replaced legacy systems with TDengine to unlock real-time, high-scale data processing and intelligent oilfield operations.

TDengine Team

April 14, 2026 | Case Studies

Building Your AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation

The data foundation you build today will determine what is possible tomorrow. It is the one asset that persists, accumulates value, and supports every layer built on top of it.

Jeff Tao

April 12, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian

The Future of Industrial Software: AI Agents on Top of an Industrial Data Foundation

Applications are no longer long-lived assets, but flexible and disposable layers on top of something more fundamental.

Jeff Tao

April 11, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian

Total Cost of Ownership: The Hidden Cost of Industrial Data Systems

The total cost of an industrial data system is not defined by its license or subscription price. It is defined by its complexity, its integration effort, and the people required to make it work.

Jeff Tao

April 10, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian

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