How Millwright compares
Cognite, Grafana, Honeywell Forge, Sift, Nominal, Revel, Seeq, Datadog, Splunk, and the stack a plant already runs, and when to pick each one.
Build versus buy
A dashboard toolkit. Someone on your team becomes the product.
The industrial data platform
A knowledge graph you stand up, then the apps and agents you build on it.
While the machine is still being built
Test stands, flight programs, and control software.
Analytics on the historian
A workbench for the process engineer doing the analysis.
IT observability
Built for services, hosts, and logs. A machine is a different object.
The incumbent suite
The enterprise reliability suite the plant may already pay for.
The stack you already run
Five tools that each work, and the gap between them.
Questions
What is a Grafana alternative for a plant or a factory?
Millwright, when the dashboard is standing in for an operations workspace. Grafana stays the right toolkit when a platform team is building boards over software metrics. The Grafana page draws the line.
How is Millwright different from Cognite?
Cognite Data Fusion builds the industrial knowledge graph, then the Flows and Atlas AI agents on top of it. Millwright skips the platform project and gives the crew the workspace on the historian and CMMS you already run.
How is Millwright different from Honeywell Forge?
Forge is the enterprise reliability suite: models, twins, and a services program across sites. Millwright is the shift workspace on one asset: the trend, the work order, and the procedure, scoped to who may see it. A Honeywell plant can run both.
Does Millwright replace the historian, the SCADA, or the CMMS?
No. It connects them, read-only first. It does not write to the DCS, it does not replace the alarm management system, and it raises no alarms of its own.
How is Millwright different from Sift, Nominal and Revel?
Sift and Nominal serve the program building and testing the machine. Revel commands hardware. Millwright serves the crew running machines already in service.
We already pay for Datadog or Splunk. Do we need this too?
Probably both, for different rooms. Keep Datadog for services and Splunk for detection. Neither one is the asset, the procedure, or the work order.
What if the alternative is the tools we already have?
That is the most common case, and it has its own page. The historian, the CMMS, the procedures library, a board, and the shift channel each do a real job. The fault usually lives in the gap between them.
See it running on your own plant.
We are onboarding a small number of operations teams. Three questions, and we will be in touch.