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Closing the gap between cloud and field

With Industrial Edge you take digitalization directly to your manufacturing systems

Utilize the new freedom in automation and reap the benefits of a smarter manufacturing – that lets you decide where and how your data are processed. It lets you apply the intelligence and scalability of the Cloud directly in your manufacturing systems – with ease, top performance, and no need for your data to leave your manufacturing area.

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Industrial Edge

The best of both worlds

Industrial Edge combines local and high-performance data processing directly within the automation system with the benefits offered by the Cloud: app-based data analysis, data processing and infrastructure-as-a-service concepts with a centralized update function.
Industrial Edge expands automation devices to include cloud functions like data analysis or software and device management feedback-free. Data processing and analytics are centrally managed.

Edge Management

Central infrastructure to manage Edge devices
The Edge Management System from Siemens Industrial Edge is the central infrastructure you can use to manage all connected Edge devices. The Edge Management System enables you to monitor the status of all connected devices, install Edge apps and software functions on the desired Edge devices, and move functions from the Cloud to your manufacturing system in the process.

Edge Devices

Secure, future-proof basis for running Industrial Edge applications
With Siemens Industrial Edge you take computing power directly to your manufacturing systems: Edge devices collect and process data where it is generated. Industrial Edge enables to download and update applications from a central Edge management on the machines that are connected to Edge devices.

Edge Apps

Applications for intelligent data use
Industrial Edge apps provide just the right amount of flexibility and application options for Edge devices. Enabling Edge apps to access the runtime software on Edge devices makes innovative applications possible for diagnostics and analytics of big, high-frequent data volumes in the automation and manufacturing environment, e.g. preventive maintenance or work piece analytics and optimization. Industrial Edge is an open platform, and Siemens is not alone in developing apps for all kinds of applications that use it. Other companies can also be part of the Industrial Edge ecosystem, and develop and publish apps as certified partners. And, of course, users can also implement their own Edge apps.

Using the best of the Cloud securely in manufacturing: Industrial Edge

There is no question that Cloud solutions offer many benefits: they provide central management for applications, easily link data from various sources, and provide a powerful infrastructure for data processing. At the same time there’s a huge demand for locally processing data close to the machine in the most secure way possible. Often regulations or company guidelines prohibit transferring data to cloud servers outside the country or company IT infrastructure.

This is precisely where Industrial Edge comes in, combining the benefits of the Cloud with the strengths of a local solution: you decide where you will process, store and use your data – locally, in the Cloud, or with a hybrid solution.

Future-proof processing of machine data directly at the machine with Edge Computing

Analysis in close to real time

The short distance between data source and the Edge devices means data can be gathered and pre-processed quickly, almost in real time.

Always up-to-date

Industrial Edge applications and runtime are automatically kept constantly up-to-date to suit your requirements.

Connectivity to IT/cloud systems

With Industrial Edge, we are focusing on integrated and expandable connectivity for data exchanges between automation and IT systems and different Cloud systems (MQTT, MindSphere).

Plug-and-play connectivity with automation systems

By working together with you we ensure that Industrial Edge and our automation components will be compatible right from the outset.

Use the new freedom of automation

Industrial Edge offers the opportunity to expand traditional automation technology with apps that are using high-level languages

Intelligent data pre-processing

With Industrial Edge you can pre-process data from your manufacturing systems to ensure that only the relevant information is transmitted to IT/Cloud systems.

References

Industrial Edge in practical use

Industrial Edge provides tangible benefits to industrial companies as the following practical example shows. 

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Siemens Elektronikwerk Amberg | Germany   The Siemens factory in Amberg products mostly SIMATIC devices. One of the machines there broke down from time to time with no predictable rhythm. Because speed and current are particularly important for drives, these data were processed and analyzed with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Industrial Edge provided the hardware to run the algorithms and to process the huge amount of data, and the software to extract the data from automation components and to analyze them directly where they are created: at the machine.

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