Industrial companies are sitting on a predictive maintenance goldmine worth hundreds of millions in potential savings, yet most struggle to expand beyond successful pilots. The pattern is distressingly familiar: A team implements predictive maintenance for a critical asset, proves the value with impressive projected ROI metrics, then hits an insurmountable wall when trying to scale across multiple production lines, plants, or regions. What separates the companies achieving enterprise-wide success from those stuck in perpetual pilot mode? The answer lies not in better algorithms or more sensors, but in the underlying infrastructure connecting them.