Manufacturing and Devices
Machine and IoT Data
Take output, downtime and process data from machines instead of a shift register.
Machine controllers and IoT gateways
Manufacturing and Devices
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What this connects
Machine controllers, PLCs and IoT gateways to production records.
Supported workflows
- Recording machine output counts against a work order
- Capturing downtime with a reason code
- Monitoring process parameters during a run
- Feeding production dashboards from actual machine data
Data exchanged
- Output counts
- Machine state and downtime events
- Process readings such as temperature or pressure
- Timestamps and machine identifiers
Setup requirements
- Machines exposing data via OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT or a vendor API
- An IoT gateway or local agent on the shop-floor network
- Mapping between machine signals and work orders
Permissions required
- Read access to machine data interfaces
- Shop-floor network access for the gateway
Security and privacy
- Shop-floor networks should stay segmented from general office networks.
- Connections are read-only by default — we do not write to machine controllers without an explicit, separately agreed requirement.
Known limitations
Stated plainly, because finding these out during implementation is worse than knowing them now.
- Older machines frequently expose nothing at all and need retrofitted sensors.
- Each machine make and model is assessed individually; there is no universal connector.
Need Machine and IoT Data connected?
Tell us how you use it today and we will confirm what is possible for your configuration before anything is committed.