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About Super Connected
SUPER CONNECTED - THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Industry 4.0’s automation playbook for the Industry 5.0 era—where the human is in command, accountable for outcomes, and augmented by AI.
Craig A. Henry exposes the “forgotten middle” that limits performance as he lays out a practical architecture for intelligent interconnection across sensors, controls, people, and models. Signals have given way to networks, connecting intelligent field devices and sensors to edge and cloud-based control and data collectors.
Grounded in real operations, the book moves from wiring to wisdom: the Interface Layer that lets AI speak safely to machines; closed-loop digital twins that learn and act; AI as co-designer, co-integrator, and co-operator; and a Risk Layer that builds trust through explainability, governance, and zero-trust security.
At its core is the Human-in-Command Architecture (HiC-A)—policy-as-code, graduated autonomy, mission-control overrides, and a decision ledger that makes systems answerable.
Readers get a blueprint for both greenfield and brownfield plants: open standards and composable building blocks, device-level visibility, and metrics that go beyond OEE, time-to-intervene, override effectiveness, traceability, resilience, and MTTR.
Henry also introduces the Future-Ready Architect—the multidisciplinary leader who connects IT, OT, AI, cybersecurity, and the shop floor—and provides a 90-day execution plan to pilot safely and scale with confidence.
SUPER CONNECTED is the field guide for engineers, executives, and innovators ready to architect tomorrow’s industrial nervous systems—and to lead the shift from automation to accountable intelligence. The results are dramatic cuts in integration and maintenance labor, interoperable ecosystems, democratized component selection, lower total cost of ownership, faster reconfiguration, and systems that are not only smart—but explainable, governable, and resilient.
Tomorrow's industrial operation can achieve:
• Significant improvement in system integrity and interoperability
• Digital visibility of every field device
• Fulfillment of the promise of closed loop digital twins
• Remarkable reduction in labor to assemble, integrate & maintain
• Democratized component selection based on global industry standards
• Dramatic reduction in total cost of ownership
• Rapid configurability and re-configurability
• An intelligent and manageable cybersecurity architecture
Author CRAIG A. HENRY
ISBNs:
- 979-8-9987359-0-5 Kindle
- 979-8-9987359-1-2 Paperback
- 979-8-9987359-2-9 Hardcover
- 979-8-9987359-3-6 Audible
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Examine our Connection
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