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IIoT MQTT Smart Manufacturing

Freedom4: Free Your Manufacturing Data With Apache PLC4x and MQTT

59 Minutes

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Chapters

03:55 - Current situation in manufacturing/automation
06:32 - What is OPC UA?
08:04 - Problems with OPC UA
10:38 - What is MQTT?
16:38 - MQTT Open Standard - Freedom
21:29 - Introducing Apache PLC4X
33:48 - Demo
40:45 - Q&A

Webinar Overview

The manufacturing industry is characterized by factory equipment that communicates via proprietary protocols that make it very difficult to consolidate data from a factory to implement deep data analysis or machine learning algorithms. Apache PLC4X with MQTT are well suited to free your manufacturing data so companies can begin a modernization of their manufacturing processes.

This webinar will discuss the 4 freedoms offered by Apache PLC4X & MQTT:

Apache PLC4X is free open source software so developers have access to the source code.
Free and open standards, like MQTT, are used to transmit the factory data to the cloud.
Freedom to choose the implementation language through the different languages SDKs offered by Apache PLC4X.
and, freedom on license costs since Apache PLC4X is open source.

Florian Raschbichler

Florian Raschbichler

Florian Raschbichler is Director of Customer Services at HiveMQ, leading global IoT solution architecture and customer success. He writes about enterprise IoT, MQTT, and building high-impact technical teams.

Christofer Dutz

Christofer Dutz

Christofer Dutz is Senior Software Engineer at Mapped.

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