4. Industry 4.0 Meaning
• Established 2010
• Internal lean manufacturing training
• Employee empowerment
• Operator = doing + thinking
• Executive backed
operational
transformation
information
technology
• ERP implementation
• Not only a support department
• Value add opportunities
• Innovation
• Waste elimination
• Process stability
joint effort
8. • Started at 1st process
• Already had PLC
• Internal counters
Kepware BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets
Change Model
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9. Serial Devices
• Less than 50% equipment
connected
• Some equipment serial
connected via outdated
legacy drivers and
software
• Start looking at lower cost
alternatives to PLCs
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Change Model
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11. Kepware
• Hub for real-time machine communication
• Standardizes PLC wire protocols to OPC-UA
• Bridges shop floor and data center
IOT agents
MQTT HTTP
• publish-subscribe
• lightweight
• portable
• topic based
• Facebook
• REST API
• request-response
• read and write
• Internet standard
BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets
How to get the data out?
OPC-UA
DATABASE
SPLUNK
Change Model
16. change model
BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets Kepware
kepserver.*
JSON XMLreceive pipeline
receive
port
processing
orchestration BPEL
JMS
send
ports
JDE REPORT PIECES
COMPLETED
SQL
UPDATE ASSET OEE
JMS
ASSET ACTIVITY
cm
(ALTERNATIVE)
17. Enterprise System
With All Needed Modules
Change Model
BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets Kepware
.
Finance
Asset Management
Order Management
Reporting
Mobility
Production
Open architecture allowing for customization
18. Change Model
BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets Kepware
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BizTalk
JDE
Custom
Function
Interoperability
Table
Backflush
Function
Small Data Set
[WO User
Quantity ] Enterprise
Data
Completion
Message
JDE
Custom
Function
BizTalk
Completion OK
Or
Errors Reported
20. How to Start
• Start where you know
• “Borrow” hardware from
your controls engineer
• Write some MQTT code
• Become familiar with
message brokers
21. How to Start
BizTalk JD EdwardsPLCassets Kepware
• You’re not a Microsoft shop?
• My personal rapid prototyping platform
• Open source
• Document store
• XQuery (XML,JSON,Unstructured)
• JMS API support
• JAVA plug-ins
• Web server
• REST API