Plant Floor to Cloud

Weekly field notes from the practitioner side of manufacturing IT
Enterprise Apps, AI, and the messy middle between the plant floor and the cloud.

Featured

Enterprise Apps & AI

Jul 21, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Agentic AI doesn't answer. It acts. Here's the rollout that earns it the right to — one rung at a time.

Tony Gondick

Articles

Enterprise Apps & AI

Jul 21, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Agentic AI doesn't answer. It acts. Here's the rollout that earns it the right to — one rung at a time.

Tony Gondick

Frameworks

Jul 14, 2026

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3 min read

Your AI dashboard is green. Your deployment might be dying.

The metrics that make an AI look good in a demo are almost never the ones that tell you it's earning its keep in production.

Tony Gondick

Field Notes

Jul 7, 2026

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2 min read

Four ways implementations go sideways — and the early warning sign for each

Most failed implementations were diagnosable months before go-live. The warning signs are boring, repeatable, and easy to miss when you're heads-down shipping.

Tony Gondick

Enterprise Apps & AI

Jun 30, 2026

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2 min read

The AI deployment that earns money — and the one that doesn't

They cost about the same to build. One pays for itself in a quarter; the other becomes a line item nobody will defend. The difference isn't the model.

Tony Gondick

Leadership

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

Four Kinds of Resistance ... And The One Leaders Keep Excusing

Issues #1–3 covered the decisions leaders make. This one is about the people who absorb them - why the loudest resister is often right, and why one kind of pushback isn't information at all.

Tony Gondick

Industry Intel

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Three AI questions every mid-market IT leader is wrestling with

At a recent industry roundtable, the AI questions practitioners actually ask landed in three areas — and the honest answers are not always the ones that are led with.

Tony Gondick