November 2, 2025
November 2, 2025
While the Unified Namespace is great for knowing where data is and how to use it in real-time, it lacks deep context.
If you’ve implemented a UNS, you’ve laid a powerful foundation. It gives your organization:
⇨ A single source of truth.
⇨ Real-time data accessibility.
⇨ A clear, hierarchical structure.
But here's the challenge: real-time data alone isn't always enough.
What if you need more context?
What if your teams need to understand not just what’s happening, but why it matters, across departments, domains, or time?
That’s where Knowledge Graphs come in.
They enrich your UNS by adding:
✅ Ontologies and semantic layers
✅ Cross-domain relationships
✅ Contextual data without duplication
With this added layer:
⇨ You don’t need to move data around to make it useful.
⇨You can query across domains without breaking the structure.
⇨ You can make smarter, faster decisions based on both live and contextualized information.
When Knowledge Graphs and UNS work together, your data ecosystem evolves from operational awareness to context-rich insight.
Kudzai Manditereza is an Industry4.0 technology evangelist and creator of Industry40.tv, an independent media and education platform focused on industrial data and AI for smart manufacturing. He specializes in Industrial AI, IIoT, Unified Namespace, Digital Twins, and Industrial DataOps, helping digital manufacturing leaders implement and scale AI initiatives.
Kudzai hosts the AI in Manufacturing podcast and writes the Smart Factory Playbook newsletter, where he shares practical guidance on building the data backbone that makes industrial AI work in real-world manufacturing environments. He currently serves as Senior Industry Solutions Advocate at HiveMQ.