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Another lifeline for fi eldbus and 4-20mA communications has been the development of gateways and translators capable of sending data to Ethernet networks. These devices allow data to be extracted from legacy networks while enabling those data to be sent to the edge or the cloud for monitoring and analysis.
Jim Koelsch on fi eldbus and 4-20mA in the age of IoT
Manufacturing Connect is a factory edge platform designed to support more than 250 machine communication protocols. Data is structured and stored locally and then sent to Google Cloud for analysis. The platform can also reportedly deploy and manage artifi cial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models at the edge for closed-loop AI applications.
David Greenfi eld on Google Cloud and Litmus’s Data Connectivity Platform
Using MQTT, a secure gateway was established that ensured only Janssen’s data was transmitted. This architecture operated reliably in an external, unfamiliar environment while preserving data quality. It also supported the manufacturer’s ability to make the vaccine with fewer operators, which was particularly important with the social distancing requirements around COVID-19.
Jeanne Schweder on Johnson & Johnson’s use of a secure data pipeline for Covid-19 vaccine production.
Most companies have an advanced level of structural visibility, often using classic risk management and network modeling. Dynamic visibility, by contrast, was found to be less mature across the companies researched by Accenture. Many companies reported that they used monitoring and predicting, but only 40% said that they use data prescriptively.
Brian R. May of Accenture on strengthening your supply chain with intelligent visibility
Interacting with paper charts is very ine cient. A lot of times you can be running a bunch of di erent CIP (clean-in-place) cycles over the course of a 12- or 24-hour period. When you’re looking at that, it’s hard to really interpret—was this good or not?
