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I would like to draw a consumer product analogy when it comes to smart "things". Fitness trackers that are examples of smart devices. (click) But your experience with these devices is not raw data like you see here. From this information, can you could make better decisions? In this form, its pretty hard to find meaning in that data.(click)
Making that data more descriptive with simple transformations, or charting might help a little, but even in this state, it wouldn’t really meet the needs of the average consumer. Plotted against time, you can see when you’re active, but if this is all your activity tracker app provided you, you would probably be disappointed.
(click) What you really want, is something like this: information grouped and summarized, key indicators visualized, and exceptions shown. This view uses the same data, but analytics transform the data into something that you can easily glance at and understand.
So how does this apply to Industrial Automation…?
In a similar fashion, we are about to make it way easier for you to use our smart devices. Our PowerFlex 755 for example has MANY calculations happening on board that reflect the health & status of the drive, but what if we could get them that information automatically AND perform analytics on the data as it streams in? Turns out we know so much about these devices with our deep domain knowledge, we can do this, and do it in minutes, not hours.
All without any work from the customer… and make the information consumable, in a browser or to TeamONE.
FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices is a self-contained, ready-to-use appliance that works automatically on an industrial networks.
Through a variety of discovery strategies, the appliance finds Rockwell Automation intelligent assets (drives, controllers, switches, etc…) and self-configures data collection, analysis and display.
The system needs power and an Ethernet connection, and set-up is simple: just a few questions will get you started. What language do you speak, what time is it, and how will the appliance get an IP address. Once its on the network, the appliance does the rest. As it discovers devices on the network, it “digitizes” or “adopts” each device, collecting and historizing relevant data, analyzing the state of the device, and rendering the results in easy-to-understand ways.
At RA we will have a general purpose VersaView 5400 PC with industrial specs and no moving parts in April of 2017. With FTAD, we will take over this PC completely, treating it like an appliance… the customer NEVER interacts or installs items to/from Windows, the goal is we control the entire environment on this edge device, and the customer only ever uses a web browser or phone to use.
Before this project, to do the work of finding and calculating the health of a device, and diagnostics of what is going on with them, would take weeks if not months worth of projects, each part custom and very hard to replicate to the next system… now this is done for you in the matter of minutes.