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Open standards, open platform: HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2 now available

10/15/2020

 
Time to read: 4 minutes
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The future of Industry 4.0 is open: open standards, open platforms, and open thinking. In today’s ecosystem, realizing the full potential of Industry 4.0 requires a mesh of products working together to fulfill each layer of the technology stack. Open standards and platforms simplify these integrations and speed up the time-to-value for Industry 4.0 solutions.
 
That is why I am excited to announce the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2, enabling our customers to deploy their Industry 4.0 solutions even faster by leveraging additional open standards and platforms.


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Unified namespace unlocks the value of Industrial IoT

9/28/2020

 
Time to read: 4 Minutes
PicturePosted by Tony Paine
Communication within a start-up is pretty straightforward. If you have a question about a new product launch, you go directly to the owner or CEO. Problems with a design flaw? Talk to your lead engineer. As that business scales, your lines of communication become more complex. You may need to send information through multiple channels to get an answer. Without an easy way to send or retrieve information, it might get lost or misinterpreted or you may wait days for an answer. Anyone who has worked in that environment knows the inherent challenges.


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Bill is leaving Acme Manufacturing Corporation

9/15/2020

 
Time to read: 4 minutes
PicturePosted by Omar Ahmed
Bill is leaving Acme Manufacturing Corporation. And when Bill leaves, he will take with him a tremendous amount of the tribal knowledge that he accumulated over the last 10 years at Acme. Bill has spent the last decade building out all of the industrial data systems and all of the individual connections between these disparate systems. Bill is the only person in the entire facility who has knowledge of the custom connections and interdependencies between OT and IT systems. With Bill leaving, the team at Acme is challenged with picking up the pieces and trying to gather up all of Bill’s tribal knowledge in order to maintain connectivity and prevent system downtime.  The OT and IT teams must go deep into the custom code to try to understand and replicate what Bill has done. This is a challenging and cumbersome task, especially when troubleshooting broken integrations.


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Four practical use cases for Industrial DataOps

8/4/2020

 
Time to read: 10 minutes
PicturePosted by John Harrington
Most manufacturing companies realize the benefits of leveraging industrial data to improve production and save costs, but they remain challenged as to how to scale-up their pilots and small-scale tests to the plant-wide, multi-plant, or enterprise level. There are many reasons for this including the time and cost of integration projects, the fear of exposing operational systems to cyber-threats, and a lack of skilled human resources.

At the root of all of these problems is the difficulty of integrating data streams across applications in a multi-system and multi-vendor environment, which has required some degree of custom coding and scripting. Standardizing data models, flows, and networks is hard work. Unlike an office environment with its handful of systems and databases, a typical factory can have hundreds of data sources distributed across machine controls, PLCs, sensors, servers, databases, SCADA systems, and historians—just to name a few.

Industrial DataOps provides a new approach to data integration and management. It provides a software environment for data documentation, governance, and security from the most granular level of a machine in a factory, up to the line, plant, or enterprise level. Industrial DataOps offers a separate data abstraction layer, or hub, to securely collect data in standard data models for distribution across on-premises and cloud-based applications.

These four use cases illustrate how Industrial DataOps can integrate your role-based operational systems with your business IT systems as well as those of outside vendors such as machine builders and service providers.


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