Industrial Internet of Things
Machines Connecting
One of the core architectures of smart manufacturing is to connect machines , which is to fully retrieve, store and analyze the data of all types of machines in the factory through the underlying sensing devices, communication transmission and upper-level cloud computing. Effective machine connecting integrates IT (work) with OT (machines and sensors and communication )and the data is edge-processed before being uploaded to the system database or cloud for subsequent applications, including anomaly alerts or intelligent modeling.
Machine connecting often encountered by the old machine station，it usually does not have networking functions and is the critical point of smart manufacturing. Traditional machine with three-color lights can be red, yellow, green, respectively, on behalf of the fault, standby, operation and other display of the operating status. Collect information on the tricolor lights of old equipment, sending data to the database, but also can do the machine's running status and the number of statistical work items.
Under the integration of machine connecting architecture, several equipment suppliers develop server components, including OPC UA server and gateways, etc. with edge computing design and through the internal processor, so that the machine network has a certain degree of machine learning ability. In addition, there are communication standards for OT-side PLC such as RS-232, RS-485, Modbus, etc., and connect with MQTT,HTTP standards, which are well used by IT staff, to build a networking architecture from the bottom up.
Durbun's iMES uses the mentioned expertise and talents to create the most cost-effective machine connecting solutions, including data acquisition and data transmission, to import field data into iMES databases in real time, to perform later big data analytics and intelligent modeling, and to seek to integrate the intelligence or automation capabilities of iMES with machines or OTs.