The partnership combines IGZ's SAP manufacturing expertise with UMH's open-source industrial data platform to help factories connect machines to SAP Digital Manufacturing in weeks, not months.
Discover why most factory-floor LLM demos break apart in production - and how a generate → freeze → test workflow instead turns "AI" into reliable, audit-grade pipelines instead of costly surprises.
A single IoT platform can tackle specific use cases but struggles with large-scale data. A Unified Namespace excels at flexible distribution yet needs extra tools. The key is striking the right balance and leveraging each where it shines
Frustrated by confusing MQTT explanations? This guide clarifies MQTT’s essentials, shows why it’s ideal for IoT telemetry, and reveals its drawbacks for manufacturing—plus how to integrate MQTT with data-center-grade solutions for end-to-end reliability.
Yes, we’ve made it possible to bring Node-RED-style simplicity into Benthos pipelines, enabling your chosen LLM to handle tedious manufacturing connectivity and contextualization tasks—whether you’re prototyping or managing production-grade data flows.
At UMH, we’re building an integrated and user-centric solution for industrial IoT. In this article, we explore the shortcomings of typical manufacturing software and share how our unique approach addresses these challenges.
Read this article to know how modern "cloud-native" technologies such as Kubernetes, Grafana, and TimescaleDB can and must be combined with the traditional automation pyramid.
We strongly believe that NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) and Unified Namespace (UNS) represent two sides of the same coin in industrial automation. Here's why!
Thank you for your attention! Now, let's discuss a topic that is close to our hearts. We want to talk about OPC Unified Architecture, or OPC UA for short. We are not in competition with OPC UA. Rather, we are (frustrated) users of OPC UA, and what follows is our personal opinion.
Discover the Unified Namespace in IT/OT convergence with this four-lesson course. Gain essential insights to navigate the hype and make informed decisions about UNS in Industry 4.0.
This chapter focuses on the fact that the concept of the Unified Namespace is an application of battle-tested IT-architecture that already enjoys widespread adoption in more advanced sectors (e.g., banking, startups, etc.).
The article delves into the different data requirements of frontline workers and business analysts, the roles of OLTP and OLAP databases, and the concept of Lambda Architecture for managing large volumes of real-time and historical data.
Explore the pros and cons of Historians versus open-source databases in sectors like oil&gas, pharmaceutical, and chemicals. This article discusses compression algorithms, storage costs, and modern compatibility.
Navigating the design of IT/OT infrastructure without MQTT, Kafka, and Kubernetes? We embarked on that journey too and confronted numerous challenges. Our hope is that our experiences can provide you with insights towards better solutions.
Discover why we chose Flatcar as the operating system for the Industrial IoT. We want to guide you through our thought process - from our requirements to selecting the operating system.
Are you looking for the best MQTT broker for your IoT or IIoT project? In this technical comparison, we evaluate four popular options: Eclipse Mosquitto, VerneMQ, EMQx, and HiveMQ. We consider factors such as reliability, scalability, and maintainability to help you make an informed decision.
OSIsoft PI, Canary, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB and Ignition - the number of tools you can use to store your data from your machinery is endless. This article provides an overview of historians and open source time series databases.
The industry is shifting from use-cases to being technology driven. We provide a look behind the United Manufacturing Hub and into our experiences for tools & techniques for data processing.
TimescaleDB is better suited for the Industrial IoT than InfluxDB, because it is stable, mature and failure resistant, it uses the very common SQL as a query language and you need a relational database for manufacturing anyway
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