The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), as a key infrastructure for industrial interconnection, interconnection of everything, and intelligence in the "new infrastructure", can gather information from multiple sources to help companies improve processes, optimize maintenance activities, reduce waste and energy consumption, and Eliminating avoidable costs, it has become a catalyst to stimulate new momentum for high-quality economic development.
| Industrial Internet of Things
The Industrial Internet of Things integrates various acquisition and control sensors or controllers with perception and monitoring capabilities, as well as mobile communications, intelligent analysis and other technologies into all aspects of the industrial production process, thereby greatly improving manufacturing efficiency, improving product quality, and reducing product costs And resource consumption, and finally realize the new stage of upgrading traditional industry to intelligence, which has the characteristics of real-time, automation, embedded (software), security, and information interoperability. In the manufacturing and processing industries, the production process requires continuous improvement of efficiency and performance. The deep integration of production and business processes provides multiple opportunities for new revenue and new business models.
In the "Internet of Things (IoT)" or "Industry 4.0", although the improvement of information is not the only factor, the improvement of information exchange between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) is still essential.
As a leading company in Germany's "Industry 4.0", Softing AG has been committed to providing corresponding efficient solutions in the field of intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, effectively realizing the integration of IT and OT, and assisting the digitalization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of manufacturing and processing industries. Among them, Softing's dataFEED software platform can realize the safe and efficient integration of IT/OT, integrate existing OPC Classic components and applications into modern Industry 4.0 OPC UA solutions, smartLink HW-DP provides the right to connect to PROFIBUS DP network Access to PROFIBUS slaves and HART field devices, monitor PROFIBUS assets through OPC UA and MQTT, diagnose I/O data for asset management, device configuration and monitoring, and have a highly scalable business model.
| dataFEED software platform
Softing's dataFEED series of products is an innovative integrated software platform that provides efficient and reliable digital data exchange and data management comprehensive functions, can access mainstream manufacturers' controllers and IoT devices, and improve PLC/OPC Communication between the server and OPC client, and transfer data to the IoT cloud.
Softing's dataFEED software platform consists of the following three levels:
1. Data collection: providing access to the data of various controllers and equipment in the automation network is an important breakthrough in the "brownfield" project.
2. Data integration: Use middleware software and open standards to bind various local applications to exchange data and achieve interoperability. It allows more complex machine-oriented solutions to be implemented in one place, such as edge analysis. It is an abstraction layer that is used to standardize technical differences between applications and unify their interfaces at various sites, for example, for integration into a central cloud platform.
3. Data management: Perform in-depth optimization and efficiency improvement to run the solution. For example, it solves the problems of visualization of data flow, monitoring and management of certificates, or easy integration of information into "data lake" solutions.
| Flexible configuration
Through Softing's products, users can operate the dataFEED software platform on their own: it can run as a stand-alone application, or it can be deeply integrated into the main cloud platform and its edge solutions.
1. DataFEED Stand-Alone: For users who do not run cloud platforms or run multiple cloud platforms at the same time, and are more inclined to rely on independent data integration solutions.
2. DataFEED for Microsoft Azure: It is suitable for users who strategically choose Microsoft Azure as their cloud platform and are looking for a data integration solution that supports Azure IoT Edge.
3. DataFEED for Amazon AWS: For users who strategically choose AmazonAWS as their cloud platform and are looking for users who can support AWS Greengrass data integration solutions.
| Advantage
The dataFEED software platform has multiple advantages and can be used as a part of industrial IoT applications regardless of the selected configuration variables:
1. A secure and flexible architecture for OT/IT integration based on open standards;
2. The highest It is safe and easy to use;
3. Based on more than ten years of data integration experience and professional knowledge, proven and reliable technology;
4. Reduce the configuration work required for initial settings and modifications throughout the life cycle of the plant, thereby reducing material The demand cost of networked IoT solutions;
5. Make full use of the advantages of the short IT innovation cycle while maintaining the stability of the workshop.
| smartLink HW-DP
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is usually associated with big data and the cloud, collecting large amounts of data from widely distributed sensors. In some industrial processes, there is usually a case where the data is sent to the cloud and the response delay time is too long, and data security may also be affected. To meet these challenges, edge computing can complement the big data processing capabilities of cloud computing. It can perform computationally intensive tasks that require immediate response, and store and filter data to the cloud when appropriate, and can be hosted on any connected device, from small embedded computers or PLCs to industrial PCs or local micro data center.
With smartLink DP, Softing provides a NOA-compliant gateway that can collect data from HART devices via PROFIBUS remote I/O and access it via OPC UA according to the supporting specifications. After being used in conjunction with the dataFEED security integrated server (the server unilaterally transmits data to the outside world), Softing has provided the function of NOA diode. In addition, the HART-IP server integrated into smartLinkDP can transparently access HART field devices via Ethernet. In the future, any HART-IP client (such as Emerson's AMS Device Manager or ProComSol's Android application DevComDroid) can be used to parameterize, monitor and evaluate HART field devices through this open communication standard.
| About smartLink HW-DP
· Access to PROFIBUS network independent of the controller
· Designed for installation that does not affect project operation
· Access to HART devices through HART IP and HART over PROFIBUS
· Powerful connection functions optimized for HART and PROFIBUS
| Task handling
· Parameterization, asset management and process data processing of HART equipment through HART IP, FDT/DTM or TACC
· Parameterization via Siemens PDM
· Monitor PROFIBUS I/O, assets and diagnostic data via MQTT and OPC UA
| Access HART devices
1. Parameterization, asset management and process data processing of HART equipment
2. Use HART IP to easily integrate the host system
3. Use HART over PROFIBUS to easily integrate existing installations
4. Supported remote I/O
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ABB (S800, S900)
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Altus Pronto (5064, 5065)
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MTL MTL8000
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P+F (LB, FB, RPI)
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Siemens ET 200 (iSP, M, SP)
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R.Stahl IS1
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Turck (BL20, Excom) Wago
With the advancement of "new infrastructure" in the future, the vulnerabilities of IoT-related software and hardware products, the high-value attraction of digital infrastructure to advanced persistent threats (APT), and the multiple network interconnections between IoT devices, make " The safety risk prevention and control coefficient of "New Infrastructure" and the difficulty coefficient of asset management will be greatly increased, which puts forward higher requirements for the development of Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. Softing will continue to be committed to the research and exploration of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to provide high-quality solutions and a safe and stable IIoT operating environment for the development of "new infrastructure".
| Past review
▶ Industrial Internet of Things IIoT for HART devices
▶ Softing Internet of Things (IoT) solution under "new infrastructure"—OT/IT data integration
▶ OPC/OPC UA/dataFEED OPC Suite helps the development of IoT, cloud, 5G and artificial intelligence
