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To help plant managers tap into the data that a modern factory creates, Cisco is introducing three new additions to the Connected Factory portfolio:
Time Sensitive Networking is now supported on the IE4000 Switch family: IEEE 802.1 TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking) brings the prospect of true real-time operation to standard, unmodified Ethernet networks. TSN has numerous value propositions that address legacy industrial Ethernet drawbacks in terms of perceived reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, latency, and ability to configure deterministic control loops, while at the same time adding incremental benefits like central configuration and the prospect of network convergence. .
Connected Asset Manager (CAM) for IoT Intelligence: Connected Asset Manager is a common visualization platform that allows the user to view and manage numerous different data sources, including legacy installed systems that are a major integration issue in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CAM is designed to ease complexity through an easy drag and drop interface, simple reporting capabilities, and agnostic to specific analytic engines.
Industrial Network Director: This OT-centric offering is a subscription-based Windows platform intended to provide an easy-to use, common framework for operations and IT personnel to manage and maintain the industrial network and quickly recover from unplanned downtime, furthering the company’s IT/OT Convergence strategy and Connected Enterprise vision. Examples of Industrial Network Director functionality include optimized alarm management with real-time alerts and monitoring of device metrics, traffic statistics, and network infrastructure status.
Cisco’s Connected Factory strategy is designed to leverage the power of data across the manufacturing siloes of today with a focus on three key attributes:
- Simplicity
- Security
- Better intelligence:
Keywords: Smart Factories, Smart Manufacturing, Industrie 4.0, ARC Advisory Group.