The Easy Way to Move Plant Floor

PLC Data to IIoT Applications

– No Coding Required!

Quinton Lowry
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Topics

 Need for Plant Floor Data – Dashboards, Analytics & MES/ERP

 OT & IT Requirements – Infrastructure, Security, Manageability & Reliability
 tManager Appliance - Direct to SQL/Cloud Solution
 Live Demo – Connecting PLC Data to AWS IoT SiteWise & SQL in Minutes
 Resources & Support
 Questions & Answers

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Need for Plant-Floor Machine Data

Mobile Dashboards
Recipe Management

OEE & Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Track & Trace

Growing Demand from

Production & Business
Management.
Cloud, In-house, Multi-site

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 OT & IT Requirements

OT Requirements
• No added risk to running production
• No changes to proven PLC/DCS applications
• Don’t degrade or add risk to plant-floor networks
• Graceful data transport in/out of controllers
• PLC monitoring of transaction status
IT Requirements • No additional computers to maintain
• Graceful integration with preferred Database or Cloud Apps
• Meet IT security policies
• Utilize existing business network infrastructure
• Ensure data integrity & availability (even when remote)
• No additional computers to maintain

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What is tManager?
Plant-Floor Data to MES & Apps

Mobile Dashboards Analytics Artificial Intelligence Database

Backplane
Comms

ControlLogix or CompactLogix

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Traditional solutions vs. tManager
Traditional tManager is easy
solutions require drag and drop
code

Drag/Drop & connect

Tags Data Points
from Logix from Apps
No PC/Server/Windows OS
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Live Demo : SQL & AWS IoT SiteWise in Minutes

 To MSSQL
 To AWS / MQTT

Direct MSSQL Applications

Connection
MQTT

Ethernet

Control Logix

tManager

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Live Demo: tManager IIoT Architecture
tManager connects seamlessly to MQTT Brokers for IoT Apps

Other IoT
Services Subscribe
(Topic, Plant_Data)
Mobile Dashboards
MQTT Broker

Subscribe
(Topic, Plant_Data)

OEE & Analytics

Publish Subscribe
(Topic, Plant_Data) (Topic, Recipe_Data)

Publish
PLC with (Topic, Recipe_Data)
tManager

Recipe, Track & Trace Data

Process Values, Production Data, OEE Machine Data,

Recipe Data, Track & Trace…

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tManager Customer Applications

• Production/Quality Data Collection

• Machine Monitoring (OEE)

• Recipe Download/Management

• Track & Trace (Serialization)

• Advanced Resource Planning (ERP)

16+ Years Field Proven for Critical Applications

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Thank You! Questions?
 Resources
tManager how-to demos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpWXzH0ESdsLkqxEub31_4g

Contact us to schedule a LIVE tManager Web demo

Quinton Lowry
Business Development Engineer
865-251-5232
Quinton.lowry@softing.us

Sales@softing.us

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AWS IoT Core & SiteWise Partnership

Partners

https://aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/
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