Day in and day out, I work alongside machine builders who share a common problem: Once equipment has been shipped to a customer site, it is quite difficult to ensure that it is running properly and being adequately maintained.
I once heard the phrase, "even a Cadillac will fail prematurely if you drive it into a brick wall." Premature failure of the machinery (regardless of whose fault) can tarnish the image of the manufacturer, lead to increased warranty costs, and create tension between OEMs and end users.
But how do I (the machine builder) get access to the control system if it is operating inside a customer’s firewall?
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Topics:
Remote monitoring,
Machine builder,
OEM,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition,
MQTT,
EPIC
The 22nd Annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando this February focused on digitizing and securing industry and infrastructure.
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Topics:
groov,
Internet of Things,
Remote monitoring,
IoT,
PACs,
New products,
Events & conferences,
API,
REST API,
REST,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition,
Ignition Edge,
EPIC
Opto 22's groov EPIC® system starts shipping on May 18.
You can start ordering now!
Pre-orders will ship first, and based on early feedback from several EPIC Roadshows, this new system will be in high demand. Customers are excited about the built-in features of groov EPIC, not only for IIoT applications but for all automation and data acquisition applications.
Here are just a few of these features:
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Topics:
Process control,
Discrete control,
groov,
Internet of Things,
PLCs,
Remote monitoring,
IoT,
Machine builder,
New products,
Integrators,
I/O,
PAC Control,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition,
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
EPIC
When we announce a new product, we want you—our loyal customers and OptoBlog readers—to be the first to hear about it.
And this isn't just one product. This is EPIC: the world's first Edge Programmable Industrial Control system—a brand-new I/O and control system built for the future of automation and designed for the way you work.
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Topics:
Energy management,
Process control,
Food & beverage,
Discrete control,
groov,
Internet of Things,
PLCs,
Remote monitoring,
Water & wastewater,
IoT,
Machine builder,
PACs,
OEM,
New products,
Integrators,
I/O,
PAC Project,
Building management,
Oil & gas,
PAC Control,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition,
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
EPIC
Is the Internet of Things (IoT) just a lot of hype, or can the IoT technologies we keep hearing about provide real value?
RESTful APIs, Node-RED, and MQTT are just some of the new technical terms we're all starting to learn.
If you'd like to see these technologies in action to understand how they might be useful for your applications, then join us for a new webinar on December 12.
Opto 22's Senior Applications Engineer Kyle Orman will demo these technologies and more. He'll show you how to exchange live data between real-world I/O and IoT platforms.
You'll see:
- IoT hardware that's proven in industrial locations
- RESTful APIs to get data from PAC controllers
- Examples of simple logic flows created with Node-RED
- Ignition Edge® OPC-UA drivers built into the
groov Box
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Topics:
Internet of Things,
IoT,
Machine builder,
PACs,
OEM,
Integrators,
API,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition,
MQTT,
Ignition Edge
Wine + IoT = yum + engineering fun
In my last post, I talked about beer and some hard deadlines at the end of a season. This time, let’s talk about wine and a different kind of season: harvest season!
During that Big Game, and since then, you might’ve seen some ads showing farmers in fields with iPads.
Well, I’ve met them.
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Topics:
Food & beverage,
groov,
Internet of Things,
IoT,
Integrators,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED,
Data acquisition
We've recently released new versions for key products:
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Topics:
groov,
Updates,
PACs,
PAC Project,
Firmware,
PAC Control,
Node-RED
Last week Opto 22 exhibited at the Automation Conference in Chicago. It was a great event, with a lot of interesting material presented and some really cool new technology demonstrated.
I conducted two workshops for attendees while I was there, both on Rapid IIoT Application Development with Node-RED, RESTful APIs, and MQTT.
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Topics:
groov,
Internet of Things,
IoT,
PACs,
API,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED
In a previous post we covered time series data.
We talked about how process automation and control data can feed our big data applications and cloud-based software platforms, to build Industrial Internet of Things applications.
In this post we'll take a look at how time series data can be used to develop time series models.
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Topics:
groov,
Internet of Things,
IoT,
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
Node-RED
