connected production
The OPC router is the central communication platform for your Industry 4.0 projects. It connects controllers, machines and IT systems via standard interfaces and thus forms the basis of connected production.
The OPC Router is a middleware based on open standards and connects automation technology and IT systems independently of the manufacturer.
Connect systems via drag and drop, from machine to SAP, database and cloud. Without programming, with OPC UA, REST, MQTT and SQL.
All data transfers are clearly displayed. This means you can always see which data is flowing from which source to which destination.
You set up connections via no-code configuration, without programming. Monitoring functions support diagnostics and troubleshooting.
With over 40 plug-ins, the OPC Router is already broadly positioned and can be expanded on a modular basis. You only license the interfaces that you really need and upgrade as and when new requirements arise. In this way, the OPC Router grows with your IT and OT landscape, can be expanded as planned and creates long-term investment security.
The OPC router is the basis for automated data exchange in your production and a central building block for connected production. You can use plug-ins to integrate systems such as OPC UA, SAP, SQL, MQTT, REST, labelers and many other applications. This means your process data is available where it is needed, enabling a bidirectional data flow: from the machine to the control and planning level and back to the production control system.
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In combination with inray smart production, the OPC router becomes a building block for connected production in an end-to-end ecosystem: machine data is recorded, distributed and made usable for transparency, analysis and optimization - via manubes, pronubes and other building blocks of the platform.
From the field
Central data hub instead of individual solutions
Bayer AG is a global life science company with a focus on healthcare and agriculture. Modern production and digitalization approaches have been implemented at the Bayer Bitterfeld site, one of the Group's most digital plants, since it was founded in 1991.
The Bitterfeld plant already had a high level of digitalization - but with many different individual solutions. Each department used its own tools or self-programmed applications to close data gaps.
To reconcile the information, the departments first had to prepare their data separately and bring it together in several daily meetings. These meetings took around two hours a day and delayed decisions because relevant information had to be painstakingly collected from different systems.
Bayer Bitterfeld became aware of the OPC router through a recommendation from another plant. After a test phase on a separate system, the team gradually integrated the OPC router into the existing landscape. Those responsible were able to configure many connections themselves; the OPC router tutorials helped with any questions.
Today, several OPC routers are in productive use and act as a data hub between the departments. The previously existing individual solutions have been completely replaced. Machine data is collected by Kepware's KEPServerEX via OPC UA, stored in a MongoDB for long-term use and, if necessary, reported to the responsible employees by email notification - for example in the event of production downtime or deviating values.
The OPC router also provides all relevant information directly to the machine: production statuses, open orders and the current status of the system are visible at all times. Each department was able to create its own visualizations on this basis and can see the key figures that are important to them at a glance.
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