HighByte Office Hours: MCP Services for Industrial AI

In this 55-minute live webcast, Torey Penrod-Cambra will moderate a discussion between HighByte product leaders Aron Semle and Jeffrey Schroeder. Attendees will learn how to make progress on their agentic AI use cases such as asset maintenance and quality inspection by using an Industrial DataOps approach.

The webcast will include short demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.3, including the new MCP Client, out-of-the-box MCP Server Tools, High Availability (HA), and advanced data processing in Pipelines. Registrants are encouraged to submit a question in the registration form to be addressed live during the event.

HighByte Office Hours are recommended for manufacturing IT professionals, data engineers, and system architects at industrial companies.

Agenda

• Explain the difference between Model Context Protocol (MCP) and APIs
• Discuss the importance of localizing, consolidating, and controlling access to third-party MCP servers using the MCP Client
• Demonstrate new out-of-the-box MCP Server Tools for popular connections like MQTT and OPC UA, which are ideal for companies getting started with agentic AI use cases
• Build data pipelines using an LLM and natural language and use new pipeline stages to streamline repetitive data processing
• Discuss High Availability capability and use cases for manufacturers in regulated industries