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Open Automation Solutions for the Factory of the Future
The goal of the digital factory is providing and analyzing production data so operators in the mechanical engineering, automotive and process industries can base their decisions on facts and key performance indicators. Whether in manufacturing, food production or laboratory technology, WAGO helps them:
- Maintain high levels of system availability and productivity
- Produce in a way that conserves resources, thus achieving efficiency
- React flexibly to market changes and customers’ needs and
- Give their systems the best possible protection against intrusion despite open automation.
Special Edition: WAGO Smart Industry
Want to increase your production effectiveness and use energy more efficiently? In our current WAGO News, experts explain the most important steps. Discover why data is critical to your project's success and how you can gain a deep understanding of your production by simply combining flexible open source software and data containers. Read how you can leverage your optimization potential with our open technology solutions. Is the Smart Factory your goal? WAGO News will provide you with valuable inspiration.
From the Sensor into the Cloud
Digitalization and the related concepts of IIoT, Industry 4.0, predictive maintenance and digital twins basically describe an essential process: Distributed field data is collected, processed and then made available to different users as needed in the IT network for further analysis.
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Field Data
Field Data
Valuable data is generated in various areas in a production facility. More and more companies want to access this information directly on the system in order to get a concrete, reliable idea of its condition as a first step – and flexible, modular systems from WAGO provide the perfect support. For example, with the WAGO IoT Box, they record different signals individually and inexpensively.
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Edge Data
Edge Data
The challenge in this area is to capture many different signals and to link together existing measurement systems and equipment. Meeting specific demands on the system requires measured value scaling, data logging, intelligent interface communication and, in many cases, system-specific logic.
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Edge Device
Edge Device
Depending on their specific uses, individual edge devices can communicate via standardized protocols, such as Modbus TCP, OPC UA on a PI server, or directly via MQTT with a cloud. In some cases, it makes sense to combine multiple edge devices in order to optimize a network. Moving the optimization “on-premises” offers the possibility of individual customization directly on the system and reduces the data burden on the IT network.
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Enterprise Data
Enterprise Data
Standardized communication is required for open integration in existing IT systems. In addition to proven connectivity via Ethernet TCP/IP, SOAP, SNMP, HTTPS, MQTT or OPC UA, cybersecurity protocols such as HTTPS, Open VPN, FTPS, IPSEC, SSH, TLS and an integrated firewall are absolute musts for ensuring total system integration.
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WAGO Cloud
WAGO Cloud
With its range of functions, WAGO Cloud offers a quick and easy display with ready-made dashboards. This lets very different user groups get the information that is important to them. Integrated device management and central firmware/application download directly from the cloud for maintenance optimization.
Digital Plant Customer Applications
Discover exciting digitalization projects and look over our customers’ shoulders as they explore the path to the world of intelligent networked production and realize their own factory of the future.
Solutions for the Digital Factory
Digital Plant Gateway
You can only optimize what you measure. This principle has guided WAGO’s design of the “Digital Plant Gateway” for infrastructure automation.
Energy Management
Power, heat, gas and water: All of these resources have to be measured constantly, and their distribution and consumption must be monitored. On the basis of DIN EN 50001, WAGO assesses the energy efficiency of various media flows in production companies and provides transparency about consumption behaviors and costs in order to uncover potential savings.
Module Type Package
Modular system engineering is one key to increased production flexibility. An overall system consists of multiple independent system modules, each of which represents one or more standardized production steps, allowing efficient system operation.
IoT and Edge Computing
Intelligent processes are requiring more and more computing power, placing corresponding demands on databases directly in the field. With the Edge Controller and the Edge Computer, WAGO offers smart solutions to process applications directly on the machine and for relieving control loads. Collected data can be evaluated directly on the Edge Devices, displayed graphically, and made available to WAGO Cloud.
Microgrid solutions
The energy transition poses major challenges for many customers. For this reason, more and more isolated solutions, so-called microgrid systems, are emerging. We would be happy to support you on your way to a microgrid - please contact us!
Insights into the Factory of the Future
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Containerization – Enabling the IoT
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Containerization in Practice
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Enabling Digital Business Models
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The Virtual Toolbox – Docker Technology by Example: WAGO Analytics
