The EmberNET blog
Notes from the plant floor
What we are building, what broke, and what we changed because of it.
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Platform
Managing edge devices that are never online
Learn how to manage air-gapped and remote edge devices with offline-first updates, local control, resilient security, and reliable audit evidence.
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Platform
Data sovereignty on the factory floor, the control-logic data nobody protects
Data sovereignty debates focus on production data, but control logic is what runs the plant and what attackers target. Here's how to own and protect it.
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Platform
What Happens to Your Production Line When the Software Vendor Goes Away?
What happens when the software vendor behind a production line disappears? This article explains the risks of vendor lock-in, unsupported industrial systems, and why open, flexible factory software matters for long-term resilience.
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Platform
What your plant does when the internet goes down
Most edge platforms are a cloud product with an agent at the far end. The difference only shows up on the day the uplink drops, and by then it is not a design discussion.
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Running Ignition at the edge as a container
Ignition on a panel PC works until you have forty of them. Here is what changes when the gateway becomes a container you deploy rather than a machine you visit.
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Remote access to the plant floor without a VPN
A VPN puts a contractor on your network and then asks the network to be careful. Here is what replaces it, and what actually changes on the floor.
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Platform
How EmberRTOS Works: Immutable OS for the Edge
Most industrial edge devices run general purpose software that drifts over time. EmberRTOS ships as a read only image. Here is how an immutable edge OS works.
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Industry
Why Real-Time Monitoring is a Game-Changer for Electronics Manufacturing
Electronics manufacturing moves fast, but many production decisions still happen too late. A soldering issue is detected after a test backlog builds. An AOI station generates false calls until operators are overloaded. A feeder, oven, robot, test sta
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Industry
How Automation Enhances Safety in Chemical Processing Plants
Chemical processing plants operate on some of the tightest margins between normal operation and catastrophic failure of any industry. A leaking flange, a runaway exothermic reaction, a stuck safety valve, a saturated absorber, an out-of-range tempera
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Industry
How Fireball Industries Helps Businesses Achieve Compliance Through Automation
For many industrial businesses, compliance has traditionally been treated as a documentation burden: collect records, prepare reports, respond to audit requests, and prove after the fact that the right procedures were followed. That approach is no lo
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News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fireball Industries Reinforces Infrastructure as Code as the Proven Foundation of the emberNET Industrial Edge Platform
Automated provisioning enables faster deployments, consistent infrastructure, and secure operations from day one.
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Automate 2026: Fireball Industries Showcases EmberNet
Fireball Industries at Automate 2026 in Detroit, showing EmberNet containerized payload deployment, EmberFLUX zero trust networking, and fleet management.