This video was recorded by me for the United Manufacturing Hub In this video, we’ll walk through connecting HighByte, a data processing engine, with the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH). HighByte is an OT-friendly alternative to Node-RED to handle operational technology data, making it a useful tool alongside the UMH. We will start by demonstrating how to download and set up HighByte within Kubernetes. Next, we’ll show you how to configure it to use data from the UMH, model this data, and send it back to UMH. From there on, the modeled data in the UMH will then be used in other applications and stored automatically in the UMH Historian. ...

This article was written for the United Manufacturing Hub Energy monitoring can help you comply with the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEfG), mandating energy-intensive companies, public institutions, and data centers to monitor and reduce their energy consumption. Read the article to learn more! On 21 September 2023, the German government passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEfG). Energy-intensive companies, public institutions, and data centers must monitor and, where possible, reduce their energy consumption. Complying with these new regulations requires installing additional systems and data processing capabilities. This article highlights how the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) can help companies comply with these regulations effectively. ...

Article written for Grafana and the United Manufacturing Hub in cooperation with Jeremy Theocharis. Most IT professionals are familiar with Grafana as a visualization tool to monitor IT telemetry data, such as CPU consumption. Grafana is also, however, a powerful tool for industrial IoT (IIoT) — which is why our team at United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), a startup that provides an open source industrial IoT platform for enterprise manufacturers, chose to leverage Grafana in our core product. ...

In this episode of the Smart Metals Podcast, host Luke van Enkhuizen and co-host Dennis Gontcharov delve into Luke’s journey from welder to consultant for the metalworking industry. The discussion covers the challenges faced by metalworking companies in digital transformation and provides practical advice on how they can become more efficient and meet customer demands. Luke highlights the importance of creating a strategic plan, understanding customer needs, and ensuring comprehensive training for staff to effectively implement digital solutions. ...

This article was written for the United Manufacturing Hub in cooperation with Jeremy Theocharis and is based on the presentation given by Jeremy Theocharis at Cloudland 2024. Connecting a USB stick to the “cloud” seems to be a stupid thing to do. Yet, it is something that we must do if we want to increase the efficiency of our world’s production and therefore reduce CO2. Nearly every factory in the world—whether they’re churning out cars, energy, shampoo, or just about anything else—still operates on technology from the 90s. There’s a good reason for this reliance on seemingly outdated tech, but it does create a significant hurdle for integrating with today’s advanced cloud environments. ...