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There is one undeniable fact regarding Industry 4.0 - data is cheap and plentiful. For over 15 years, all quality pieces of industrial equipment have come out of the crate with onboard telemetry, and one or more network connections. The cost of data availability for that inventory has sunk. For older equipment and commodity peripherals, it has either already been retrofitted with data collection sensors or the cost to have them added is trivial.