Video | Legacy Equipment Adopts IIoT Solution

Grant Gerke | May 31, 2016

Last week’s legacy equipment post discussed recent big picture thoughts on IIoT. But, how does legacy equipment and older communication architectures begin to implement IIoT strategies? U.S-based manufacturer Maclean-Fogg took the plunge recently and relied on Kepware’s KEPServerEX 5.19 OPC-based solution to automate their data collection for its shop floor machines. The U.S. based manufacturer of machine components needed quicker access to machine downtime and defect rate data for their Enterprise Resource Planning solution.

This short video (see link) below details the Maclean-Fogg’s architecture and how its current machines — with no changes to production — were able to communicate to the company’s Microsoft BizTalk client and then to its ERP software.

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