Your First Step to Industry 4.0 Migration
Immediate Gains in Efficiency of On-Site Interventions
The advantages of Industry 4.0 do not come overnight, but in phases. The correct first step maximizes reuse of your existing infrastructure without barring the path to your ultimate goals - productivity, efficiency and cost savings.
In Industry 4.0, networks and equipment still require on-site audits, testing and corrections. However, the user interfaces on existing equipment are not efficient, and increase risks of human errors during interventions. So why persist with these interfaces that are intended to correct problems... not create them.
Mobile or smartphone-based HMI offer user-friendly displays that improve visibility of performance parameters and data. But how can we connect them to industrial systems without incurring the costs and service-interuptions of replacing old hardware? An easy and efficient retrofit is available with our Tapioca Modbus-to-wireless adapters (NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) and TapBus data acquisition and control modules. Not only do they provide a secure and configurable wireless connections to mobiles, but they also help any user rapidly create mobile HMI apps that correspond precisely to their on-site tasks.
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Products for this use case:
- App Creator no-code/low-code HMI design environment
- Tapioca Modbus-wireless adapters
- TapBus data acquisition module
- TapNPass portable Modbus-wireless tools