Office Hours with HighByte + Novotek: UNS Deep Dive

In this 55-minute live webcast, Torey Penrod-Cambra will moderate a discussion between Aron Semle, CTO at HighByte, and Ulf Yngvesson, CTIO at Novotek. Attendees will receive both a theoretical and practical introduction to the concept of the Unified Namespace (UNS). The key message: UNS is crucial, but it is only one part of a complete data architecture.

The webcast will begin by exploring the UNS as a concept: Why it has grown in popularity, what it actually means, and why it matters. Aron and Ulf will clarify its purpose and implications, and explain the limitations of a UNS-based approach.

The discussion will then dive into more technical details, architectural examples, and practical use cases that illustrate how UNS fits into a larger Industrial DataOps strategy.

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

Agenda

• Define and provide a brief historical background on UNS as a concept and architecture

• Clarify how technologies like MQTT, APIs, MCP, and AI are related to and impacted by a UNS-based approach

• Discuss why UNS is important for modern industrial data architectures

• Debate the current limitations of common UNS deployments

• Demonstrate how to build a UNS, including different architectural approaches

• Present several practical use cases