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Time to read: 7 minutes  Posted by Aron Semle I love the chaos of an early market like DataOps for Manufacturing. It’s clear that things are changing, but what technologies and approaches will win out is less obvious. In these types of markets, as a solution provider, it’s equally fun to watch them mature.
One sign of a maturing market is the type of questions early customers ask about a solution. At first, the questions are different variations of “Does it work?” or “How is it different than a, b, or c?” as customers try and understand the solution and how it solves their problem. As the market matures, the questions shift focus to technical requirements like “What’s the performance with 10,000x?” or “Does it support high availability?” Here at HighByte we’re seeing more scale and reliability questions in early engagements, a sign that both the market and the product are maturing. That’s why I’m excited to announce some key features in version 2.1 that make HighByte Intelligence Hub more scalable and reliable to fit the needs of your production environment. Time to read: 5 minutes  Posted by Tony Paine Since releasing HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.0 in January 2020, our customers have been successfully deploying solutions to simplify the integration of existing operational technology (OT) and new Industry 4.0 solutions that deliver rich information to IT, data scientists, and other stakeholders. Throughout the past year, we have focused on building out a connectivity library that enables users to connect to AWS IoT SiteWise, Azure IoT Hub and Event Hubs, REST, SQL, MQTT / Sparkplug, OPC UA, and CSV files, providing the market with the interoperability needed for Digital Transformation. In addition to connectivity, HighByte Intelligence Hub introduced a no-code approach to modeling assets, systems, processes, or systems of systems that are centrally managed and automatically transformed into a usable format for any one of our connectors. This has enabled customers to scale their plant to cloud initiatives in days and weeks, rather than months and years.
Time to read: 6 minutes Posted by Aron Semle Our latest release is packed with new features and capabilities that make common Industry 4.0 use cases not just easy, but fun!
Do you need to get SQL data into your Unified Namespace (UNS)? How about data from your test equipment that’s sitting around in CSV files? Maybe you’re moving away from SQL and experimenting with NoSQL alternatives because your data models are in a state of change? Even better, maybe you have your Edge-to-Cloud strategy figured out, and now you’re looking at “Cloud-to-Edge”, trying to get alerts generated by machine learning back to the factory floor. These are just a handful of use cases we hear from customers and new use cases we’ve enabled in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.4. Time to read: 7 minutes Posted by Aron Semle Industry 4.0 solutions start with the same problem. How do I collect critical data from the factory floor? This sounds easy, but in reality, factory floors are highly heterogenous environments. It's common to have a newer machine that is highly connected sitting next to a 30-year-old machine with no connectivity at all. This forces teams to get creative. They might use an OPC UA server for one machine, SQL for the next, and retrofit another with new sensors that publish data via REST or MQTT. Each situation is unique, and teams need flexible solutions to leverage the connectivity options they have in place today.
That’s why I am excited to announce the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.3. This release is full of new capabilities that allow our customers to gather data from many sources in the factory, rapidly add context to the data, and reliably deliver it to their platforms of choice. These additional capabilities greatly expand the connectivity options available to our customers. Here are the highlights: |
