“You can visualize and trend locally and have more powerful calculations like OEE right there.” “As edge products expand, manufacturers have more need for distributed systems that place devices closer to the sources of data,” said Travis Cox, Inductive’s co-director of sales engineering. Since the introduction of the MQTT module to the Ignition platform four years ago, the product line has evolved to cater to requests from customers.
Ignition Edge includes the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) agent in it, which is a lightweight publish/subscribe network protocol from Cirrus Link Solutions that transports messages between devices that may be constrained by low-bandwidth, high-latency networks-otherwise known as a machine-to-machine (M2M) IIoT connectivity protocol. The new Ignition Edge offerings include Ignition Edge Panel which creates local HMIs for field devices Ignition Edge Compute brings intelligence to the edge Ignition Edge Sync Services synchronizes data at the edge of the network Ignition Edge Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) manages multiple Ignition installations and Ignition Edge IIoT can publish and access field device data from the edge.
Did he say, “fun?” Well, developers who have been using the company’s Ignition platform over the last 10 years seem to be pretty happy about the new industrial applications they are creating from SCADA to MES to IIoT.Īt the ARC Forum, Inductive announced enhancements to its Ignition Edge product-which embeds data collection capabilities into field devices-that address obstacles associated with digital transformation: collecting data at the edge, turning data into action, project development, and the expense of implementation. “We are turning the hard, frustrating, and ridiculously expensive into easy, affordable, and fun,” said Don Pearson, Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer. One of the companies at the forefront of the effort is Inductive Automation. Every company is trying to adopt new technology in the form of sensors, analytics, edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and more-all with the goal of leveraging automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to create a more productive and flexible organization.īut there’s also a common problem: Where to start and how to scale?Īt the ARC Forum this year, technology suppliers showed up with new offerings that have been built to solve these problems associated with digital transformation, specifically as it pertains to the dreaded “ pilot purgatory.” Digital transformation has been a theme at the ARC Industry Forum for a few years, and it is a direct reflection of what is happening across the entire manufacturing industry.
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