Jakub Kaczyński

Most factories don’t have a technology problem. They have a data problem dressed up as a technology problem – and a market full of vendors happy to sell them the wrong fix.

I’m Jakub Kaczyński, Industrial Portfolio Director in the Digital Manufacturing practice at TT PSC, a global industrial solutions integrator. With 15 years in the field and a technical background, I’ve spent enough time close to the machines, the historians and the integration layer to know where Industry 4.0 projects actually break – usually not where the slide deck promised.

What I’ve done

50+ delivered projects, most inside larger digital transformation programs where the stakes and the politics are real, spanning the US, Europe and Asia – primarily in Europe. I stay deliberately vendor-agnostic: I’ve deployed the major industrial platforms (ThingWorx, Kepware, Ignition and Litmus) across the stack, from OT connectivity and SCADA through MES and IIoT, and I pick the one that fits the plant, not the one with the best reseller margin. My sharpest work sits in the data layer itself: building a unified namespace so OT and IT finally speak the same language, then turning that clean, contextualized data into the analytics and decisions people actually act on.

One example: in a plant producing over a thousand tonnes of sweets a week, I led the team behind a recipe management solution built on a unified namespace – owning the high-level architecture and standardizing formulas so the same product runs the same way on every line. The approach is now being discussed as a template for the company’s other plants.

In the last few years my work has concentrated in food & beverage: high-mix lines, tight margins, OEE that has to move this quarter, not next roadmap.

How I work

End to end, in that order: define the business case first (if the numbers don’t add up, we stop), then choose the technology, then design the architecture, then support the rollout. I’d rather kill a project at the business-case stage than watch it die expensively six months after go-live. Pragmatic, realistic, and allergic to vendor hype.

Speaking

Turning shop-floor data into decisions is a recurring theme in my talks. Recent ones: „From Data to Decisions” at Smart Manufacturing Week 2026, „From Machine to Decision: Digital Transformation Step by Step” at IndustryX0 2025, and „How Smart Maintenance Drives Strategic Success” at Robotics Warsaw 2025.

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