United Manufacturing Hub

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....

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....

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 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....

This video was recorded by me for the United Manufacturing Hub In this first part of the UNS Basics mini series, we introduce the Automation Pyramid as a system to control the plant. We highlight the challenges related to data analytics and present the Unified Namespace as the solution. We also show how the Automation Pyramid connects to the Unified Namespace, according to the United Manufacturing Hub’s philosophy. Finally, we briefly discuss where historical data from the Unified Namespace is saved....

Article written for the United Manufacturing Hub. Why do we need the Unified Namespace if we already have the NAMUR Open Architecture? In this article, we compare the Unified Namespace (UNS) and NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA). First, we highlight that they both extend the traditional automation pyramid to enable industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Second, both architectures outline a highly-reliable IT infrastructure. Third, both architectures are applicable to operate in manufacturing, chemical and pharma, all very conservative industry that are slow to adopt new technical innovations....

This video was recorded by me for the United Manufacturing Hub In this tutorial, we guide you through the process of integrating Ignition by Inductive Automation with the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH). The objective is to build an operational dashboard in Ignition that displays real-time MQTT data coming from the UMH, using UMH as a Unified Namespace (UNS). This tutorial requires a running UMH instance, and (at least) the demo version of Ignition by Inductive Automation....

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....