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Build Your Use Case Overview

Industrial Edge is a modular system. It comprises a collection of interoperable and tested components that facilitate data sourcing, analysis, and forwarding. Just like with building bricks, you can construct your customized solution reflecting your individual needs and requirements and scale this solution factory-wide and further.

Siemens Industrial Edge allows for the compilation of a customized software solution by combining various modules that can be selected or optionally added based on specific requirements.



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  • Industrial Edge Device: Pick from the list of Industrial Edge Devices. Which requirements does the hardware need to fulfil for your use case and the environmental conditions? E.g. display included, super rough environment, support several applications, local storage, amount of network interface required, and so on.

  • Databus: The Databus is the central component of our system for sharing data between different apps on one Edge device; You can find the “IE-Databus” it in your Industrial Edge Hub and deploy it to your system. Alternatively you can build and use your own Data broker.

  • Analytics, Dashboarding & Archiving: To handle your data coming in, you may either use those Edge Apps which are readily available on the Industrial Edge Marketplace, or develop your own app and upload it to your Industrial Edge Management to use it on your Edge devices.

  • Northbound Connectivity: Choose a suitable connector for passing on pre-processed data to cloud.

  • VPN & more: Additional features to extend your use case like VPN connectivity, GDS application etc are available.

When constructing your Industrial Edge system with these building bricks, you may consider a few questions in advance:

  • What problem needs to be solved? It may be an issue regarding predictive maintenance, a quality check with visual inspection, monitoring of e.g. energy consumption, and so on
  • What are the devices providing data from the shopfloor?
  • Pre-processing & analyzing of data on the shopfloor or in the cloud?
  • Display of data on shopfloor or in IT? Are notifications required?
  • Connect to a cloud for further analysis? Local cloud or specific vendor? With specific requirements?
  • Which security standards need to be achieved?