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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
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
