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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. ...

This video was recorded by me for the United Manufacturing Hub In this tutorial, we guide you through the process of building a Grafana dashboard based on the PackML model. We begin with a look at the PackML MQTT simulator, which simulates a real production line using the PackML standard and integrates with MQTT for messaging. Following this, we build a dashboard that can display various machine states (such as Starting, Running, Stopped, etc.), operational metrics, and alarms or notifications. In addition, we’ll cover how to use the management console and explain how to work with the overall data model. ...