Air gapped, not data dark: how Bright Machines gives customers live factory dashboards without opening the plant

Bright Machines captures PostgreSQL changes at the factory edge with Debezium, writes them as Apache Iceberg, pushes them out over a single auditable outbound path, and reads them in place in Databricks via Unity Catalog federation, with zero inbound ports to the plant. A row committed on the line is queryable in Databricks in one to two minutes, dashboards refresh every ten minutes, and a heartbeat check detects a broken pipeline in under thirty minutes. The first customer-visible dashboard went live about two months after kickoff, replacing nine loosely coupled services with one governed platform plus one edge path.