Is anyone implementing meltano at a company in the manufacturing space? Based on my experience at my own company (folding carton manufacturer) and my research it seems that manufacturing companies, specifically those in the small-mid size range, have trouble shifting to a culture centered around data, and therefore lack the buy in necessary to get data initiatives off of the ground. I'm really curious to hear if there are any community members who have experiences with developing data infrastructure in these sorts of companies.

haven't done it myself, have chatted with some friends who are process engineer's, and some tool and die folks. Each sub industry is completely different (so folding carton is much much different than the others), and the technology used on the floor tends to not be very recent. Most of which don't have easy ethernet access, you might have an aggregator or something but to get the raw data from the machines you're talking some custom protocol, or maybe even going spi/i2c/can bus/etc on the boxes themselves. So it depends. My guess is it'd be doable with buy in from c-suite, plus good tech, plus a good size investment. My guess is the cost is hard to justify

Not directly in the data engineering world, but in the Observability space: We did a Proof of Concept with our Observability product at a manufacturing company and immediately showed value (pinpointing the cause of slow response times in the core CRM system). Middle management at the company casually dismissed our efforts.