Grant GerkeGrant Gerke is Owner, Technical Editor, Writer, and Marketer at AC Consulting.Digital TransformationThe Spec Fight OEMs Didn’t Know They Were InAs customers hunt for trusted partners to standardize plant data, OEMs that design for unified namespaces and ontologies are quietly winning specifications. The ones still building to the old interoperability spec are getting left out.October 15, 2026Page 1 of 1