In Episode 19 of In the Loop, Blake and Mike break down key conversations from this week’s SPID LTUF forum. As teams across the industry continue navigating the evolution of Hexagon SmartPlant Instrumentation and the transition toward Octave, the discussion covered everything from product updates and graph evolution to V12 challenges, customization strategies, and the realities users are facing in the field today. This episode takes a step back from the slides and dives into the real conversations happening across engineering, instrumentation, and digital transformation teams. Topics discussed: • The transition from SPID to Octave • SPID to graph evolution • Item tag customization approaches • V12 lessons learned • Industry feedback and user concerns • What teams are seeing across projects and operations