The middleware for Industry 4.0

"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" is a bidirectional universal 'communication data bridge'
"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" is the central element that is used in Industry 4.0 projects in factory automation, building management systems, etc.
The system is used as:

• Middleware
  • Connection to MES/PPS
  • Realization of Industry 4.0 networks (e.g. own company cloud on the intranet or internet)
• Edge Device
  • "Universal communication Industrie 4.0" also runs on small systems (MiniPC, Raspberry Pi). Networkability offers excellent prerequisites for operation as an Industry 4.0 Edge Device.

"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" was developed entirely in C# (.NET Standard or .NET Core).
So "Universal communication Industrie 4.0" is executable on all platforms that are supported by the .NET Core / .NET Standard.
OPC UA Companion Specification
Thanks to the flexible modeling of the data structure in "Universal communication Industrie 4.0", we have created the best conditions for mapping complete OPC UA Companion specifications.
The logical functionality can be easily implemented by the user with the integrated typescript. All in one system.
Regardless of whether it is about OPC UA Methods, dynamic nodes must be created / removed - everything is possible.

Application / use

With "Universal communication Industrie 4.0" you can raise (and harmonize) a heterogeneous machine landscape with different types of intelligence, control systems, data formats and connection (bus) protocols to a customer-specific standard.
The centerpiece is the OPC UA-compliant structure, as well as the central OPC UA connection to all ""Universal communication Industrie 4.0" data".
"Real" machine data and "virtual" variables (= data from / in database, text file, or web interface etc.) are processed in the same way.
The node tree (“variable tree”) according to the OPC UA standard therefore plays a major role in "Universal communication Industrie 4.0". The data from the connected sources can be mapped as required in a logical and hierarchical tree structure.
Each element is treated in "Universal communication Industrie 4.0" as a node. In the internal high-speed cache, all variables with all properties such as name, current value, time stamp, min / max etc. are made available. Access is possible bidirectionally as read and write access.
When the PC is replaced, the complete configuration can be easily carried over to the new PC via backup / restore.
Since not every company has an identical system for production control and data acquisition, " Universal Communication Industry 4.0" can be expanded / adapted with your own interfaces.
The integrated database allows historical process variables to be saved.
"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" provides standardized, own, but also customer-specific interfaces in the form of "plugins" for further processing by higher-level systems (e.g. MES, ERP).
Access to current values and the saved historical values is easily possible via OPC UA, REST / JSON, directly via the database or via script plug-in (JavaScript).
Running each script in a separate sandbox maximizes the stability of the main application.
In this way, "Universal communication Industrie 4.0" can be connected to any data source or data storage in the horizontal and vertical directions. The data exchange takes place automatically (in the event of a change), controlled by time or events (trigger).

Plugins for Devices / Interfaces und Data Exchanges

• OPC UA (Server and Client)
• OPC Classic (DA)
• SQL Datenbanken
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • Oracle SQL
  • also stored procedures
  • any other database system if necessary
• CSV / XML / text files
• WEB application via REST / JSON interface
• SAP
• Devices
  • SIMATIC S7, S5
  • RFC-1006 (ISO on TCP)
  • SINEC H1
  • Allen Bradley
  • Beckhoff
  • Schneider
  • Mitsubishi
  • Omron
  • Your PLC is not included, ask us

Configuration

"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" is configured via the integrated web interface. A separate configurator is available for each plug-in.
Basically, parameterization is possible via an XML config file. The format of the XML config files is freely available and documented accordingly.
"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" can be easily combined or connected with existing project planning / parameterization applications (e.g. COMOS).

Requirements

"Universal communication Industrie 4.0" is supported on the following operating systems:

• Windows
  • Workstation Windows 7/8/10 (32/64 Bit)
  • Server Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019
• Linux
  • Debian 9 or higher
  • Fedora 29 or higher
  • Ubuntu 16.04 or higher
  • OpenSuse Leap 15.0 or higher
• Raspberry Pi (z.B. UniPI, KUNBUS)
  • Raspbian 9 (Stretch) or higher
• macOS

Industrie 4.0 tools

PLC-data logging/triggering
Automated writing of data from the PLC to a file

PLC-data in Excel
Create with the S7-PLC Excel-files

OPC-Server
data recall by OPC-Server

S7-PLC exact time synchronization
Easy automatic setting of the S7-PLC-time