sedApta Edge IIoT

A Data Acquisition System that turns machine noise into information the MES can trust

Technically, sedApta Edge IIoT is a Data Acquisition System — but what it really does is stand between your machines, lines and plants and your MES, standardising the acquisition, processing and distribution of field data as a single flow. The result is an MES fed with objective, reliable, secure information rather than best-guess readings, which means the corrective action plans you build on top of it actually match what is happening on the floor. Edge IIoT can also be extended into advanced supervisory, HMI, machine diagnostics and data processing for corrective, scheduled and predictive maintenance. One data layer for everything downstream.

Why IoT data needs to be processed at the edge, not in the cloud

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of smart devices that send and receive enormous volumes of data to and from each other. That data has to be processed and analysed before it can be re-used. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is that same pattern applied to the factory floor. Edge computing then changes where the processing happens: instead of shipping every reading to a data centre or the cloud, data is handled in the devices and nodes that collect or use it. In practice, that pairing, IIoT plus edge, is what makes real-time analysis actually possible on a production line.

What the Data Acquisition System actually does

The acquisition of Production Progress Data (Production DB) and those related to technological processes (Processes DB) of transformation as well as of raw materials and semi-finished products, provide complete and timely information for their correlated analysis.

Acquisition: connect to any machine, at any scale, without dropping data

The acquisition layer manages every interface, connection and communication with the machines, backed by an extensive library of drivers and interconnection protocols. So whatever PLC, SCADA or line controller you run, it can be brought in. Scalability and continuity are built in, which means the data stream holds up as volumes grow or equipment changes, and configurability runs from the basics right through to bespoke implementations.

Supervision: historian, HMI, real-time reports and energy tracking

The supervision layer historicises process variables so nothing is lost to time, extends cleanly into HMI, supervision and diagnostics functionality, and generates real-time reports directly from the process data. Energy and recipe management sit alongside that, so shop-floor teams can see consumption and configuration in the same place they see production progress.

Production management: live machine state, piece counts and fault coding

For each work order in production, Edge IIoT captures machine status (start/stop), stop and fault codes, so the cause of every line stoppage can be automatically attributed. And a full piece count broken down by total pieces, good pieces, scrap and pieces in re-elaboration. The granularity matters, because that is what makes OEE calculations defensible later.

Process management: the process variables that matter

On the process side, Edge IIoT captures the significant process variables for each production step: temperatures, pressures, speeds, cycle times and whatever else matters for the recipe, giving the MES and analytics layer the full context around every event.

 

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