Technological shifts in the industry are needed to continue to meet demand and deliver profits. Traditionally information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) staff have worked on opposite sides, siloed from each other – not overlapping on projects or deployments. However, in the world of industrial IoT (IIoT) that approach has been flipped, demanding that these departments be entirely in sync and aligned. With Gartner's prediction of 60% of IIoT analytics coming from IIoT platforms coupled with edge computing, OT/IT convergence is necessary to prepare for this influx of IIoT analytics for continued, if not improved, performance and output from refineries and drilling operations, along with individual machines involved in those operations. One concern for aligning teams on IIoT investments and deployments is the differences in languages used.