4.0 Solutions Podcast

How should manufacturers approach storing, querying, and analyzing industrial time-series data? In this episode of Problem Solvers: Inside the Stack, Walker Reynolds and the Tiger Data team explore the challenges of managing large volumes of industrial data, the role of time-series databases, and how modern data infrastructure supports industrial applications and analytics. This episode is adapted from our live technical webinar. For the complete demonstration and visual walkthrough, watch the original episode on YouTube. Full Video: https://youtube.com/live/teZIhraG2MI Explore more educational content at https://www.iiot.university

Knowledge graphs are becoming an increasingly important part of the Industry 4.0 conversation — especially as manufacturers look for better ways to give data context, capture relationships, and prepare industrial systems for AI. In this episode, Walker Reynolds is joined by Jeff Knepper, President of Flow Software, and Graeme Welton, CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss what knowledge graphs actually are, where they fit alongside the Unified Namespace, and why modeling the relationships between equipment, processes, materials, and operational data matters. They’ll also get into Flow Software’s Atlas, early industrial use cases, and how knowledge graphs can help move manufacturers from simply connecting data to actually understanding how the operation is connected.

Walker Reynolds sits down with Doug Pagnutti, Industrial Developer Advocate at Tiger Data, to talk about TimescaleDB, Tiger Cloud, and why Tiger Data describes itself as the operational data layer for the physical world. Doug brings more than a decade of experience building PLC, SCADA, and data acquisition systems across energy and manufacturing, so this is not just a database conversation. They’ll get into where traditional databases start to struggle with high-volume machine and sensor data, how Doug’s automation background shapes the way he thinks about data infrastructure, and what Tiger Data is building for industrial developers, integrators, and architects. New Tiger Cloud accounts can get a $1,000 credit valid for 30 days: https://tsdb.co/40SPodcast #TigerData #PostgreSQL #IndustrialData #TimeSeries #IndustrialAutomation #Industry40 #Manufacturing #40Solutions

What did the Industry 4.0 community actually think about ICC Unleashed 2026? Walker Reynolds breaks down the biggest takeaways from this year’s conference, including the lack of a major announcement, the heavy focus on systems integrators, the limited end-user presence, and why Inductive Automation still needs to succeed for the broader community. We also get into the Tiger Data announcement, feedback from vendors and community members, and where 4.0 Solutions stands today in relation to ProveIt! and ICC. #ICC2026 #InductiveAutomation #Ignition #Industry40 #IndustrialAutomation #Manufacturing #40Solutions #WalkerReynolds

Thursday 9/3 at 12:00 PM CDT, Walker Reynolds is going LIVE to bring the Atlas build full circle. In Tuesday’s “Is This What’s Missing?” video, Walker broke down the relationship between the Unified Namespace and knowledge graphs: the UNS as the real-time data backbone, and the knowledge graph as the layer that gives those connections meaning. Tomorrow, he’s opening it up live. Walker will walk through what he built with Flow Software’s Atlas, dig deeper into where knowledge graphs fit in the industrial architecture, and answer your questions. If you’re trying to understand how the UNS, knowledge graphs, and agentic AI fit together, bring your questions. Thursday, September 3 12:00 PM CDT LIVE with Walker Reynolds The UNS gives you the flow of information. Atlas gives you the map of meaning across that flow.