Rob Risany, executive vice president, IOT Strategic Solutions and Technology, said that it has always been difficult to link and consolidate existing equipment protocols to form scalable single solutions, but to implement Industry 4.0, Support networked devices can also put real-time data through the network to the cloud, but it is an unavoidable subject.While Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and other terms are currently the most popular keywords, but if The machine at the production site can not provide the data, and big data or AI is useless, so ADL decided to give priority to solving the less-noticed but actually very challenging topic.
Jason Ng, Asia Business Associate, IAC Strategic Solutions and Technology, at ADI, further explains that the two most important challenges in getting non-networked, legacy devices to upload data over the network are two: First, many device manufacturers have their own communications Agreement with the data format, in order to allow cross-brand devices can transfer data each other in itself is a big challenge.Secondly, manufacturers are often reluctant to make substantial changes to the existing machine software to prevent device instability or crash Therefore, when developing the DEX-100, ADL decided to start using the functions of most human-machine interface devices and use the OCR technology to interpret the data originally transferred to the HMI by the machine and convert the images into characters. Then put the data on the cloud.
This design has two major benefits: First, using OCR to parse the data without worrying about incompatibility of communication protocols and data formatting is user-definable, and data standardization is easy to achieve. Second, because machines The data should have been sent to the HMI display, so users do not have to make any effort to change the built-in software.As long as the DEX-100 dock with the display interface used to connect HMI, the machine will automatically provide data The DEX-100 itself is also equipped with video output, USB port and other connectivity, so the user can still operate the machine in accordance with the original way.
And because it uses video output as a conduit for data acquisition, the DEX-100 can be used with any industrial PC-based production equipment. Risany notes that this is very beneficial for the enterprise because the same equipment can be used in all kinds of It is not necessary to develop customized solutions for the needs of individual machines, which helps to reduce the manufacturer's cost of imports and enables rapid deployment of applications in parallel.
Intel is quite optimistic about the potential of the DEX-100 in industrial manufacturing and, in particular, listed the DEX-100 as one of the company's Market-Ready Solutions (MRS) for the Internet of Things, said Chen Lisheng, general manager of Intel's Taiwan branch , In order to promote the popularity of IoT applications, the company set up a special MRS project.As long as it is using the Intel platform tailored for a variety of industry-specific business challenges and can be immediately built end-to-end ) IoT solution, there is a chance to be selected as the MRS program MRS program has proven feasible, can be extended, with proper support of the three major features, and ADLINK's DEX-100 program just meet these three requirements.Now Intel has 35 MRS, of which six are with Taiwan's industrial computer industry cooperation, and ADLAC's DEX-100 is one of them.