A Week Dedicated to Finding Real-World Solutions
For one week every spring, the engineers, architects, and decision-makers who are actually building industrial infrastructure gather in one place. The conversations that happen on that floor tend to be more direct, more technical, and more useful than most.
A Report From Our Team on the Floor:
Our team spent the week talking through real OT data challenges with the people living them, like: What does it actually take to get data moving securely across network layers? How do you build a data foundation that doesn’t need to be replaced every time something upstream changes? Where does OPC UA fit into architectures that are still carrying a lot of legacy weight?
And of course, introducing how Matrikon Data Broker changes that story through a unified data layer that connects, governs, and scales.
The event also provided the perfect backdrop to showcase what’s new with MDB:
Data Source Redundancy: MDB 2.5 keeps critical data streams uninterrupted by maintaining continuous flow even when individual sources falter. For operations where uptime isn’t optional, this capability changes the risk calculus.
New Controls That Matter. The MQTT Publisher extension now includes Transaction Management for high-availability recovery, along with support for special characters in tag names, a small detail that eliminates a persistent friction point for teams managing large tag libraries.
Other Highlights From Hannover Messe 2026:
A total of 110,000 visitors from around the world attended Hannover Messe 2026, with around 40 percent coming from abroad. The conference largely focused on the following:
AI, Automation, and Data Foundations
Artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and energy infrastructure dominated as the defining themes of the industrial future.
Matrikon takeaway: You can’t run AI on data you can’t access. You can’t trust outputs built on poorly contextualized inputs. The UODL exists precisely to solve that foundational problem before it becomes someone else’s AI failure.
Industrial Transformation
More DAX board members and political decision-makers than ever before used the trade fair as a platform for exchange and orientation, demonstrating that digital transformation is no longer just an engineering conversation.
Matrikon takeaway: More of the organizations we support are being asked to deliver on their OT data foundations faster than ever.
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