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Industrial IoT for Architects and Engineers

By : Joey Bernal, Bharath Sridhar
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Industrial IoT for Architects and Engineers

By: Joey Bernal, Bharath Sridhar

Overview of this book

When it comes to using the core and managed services available on AWS for making decisions about architectural environments for an enterprise, there are as many challenges as there are advantages. This Industrial IoT book follows the journey of data from the shop floor to the boardroom, identifying goals and aiding in strong architectural decision-making. You’ll begin from the ground up, analyzing environment needs and understanding what is required from the captured data, applying industry standards and conventions throughout the process. This will help you realize why digital integration is crucial and how to approach an Industrial IoT project from a holistic perspective. As you advance, you’ll delve into the operational technology realm and consider integration patterns with common industrial protocols for data gathering and analysis with direct connectivity to data through sensors or systems. The book will equip you with the essentials for designing industrial IoT architectures while also covering intelligence at the edge and creating a greater awareness of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in overcoming architectural challenges. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to apply IoT directly to the industry while adapting the concepts covered to implement AWS IoT technologies.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1:An Introduction to Industrial IoT and Moving Toward Industry 4.0
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Part 2: IoT Integration for Industrial Protocols and Systems
11
Part 3:Building Scalable, Robust, and Secure Solutions

Revisiting the basics of manufacturing

Manufacturing, in general, can be classified as discrete manufacturing or process manufacturing. While discrete manufacturing deals with creating countable or distinct products, such as cars or shoes, process manufacturing usually follows a recipe combining multiple raw materials to create different finished goods. Examples of this include detergent, face cream, or steel. A keen understanding of various manufacturing processes is key to appreciating the importance of different control systems used for each of them. Figure 5.1 visualizes the multiple subdivisions of the kinds of manufacturing arranged in decreasing order of production volume and increasing order of production variety.

Figure 5.1 – Manufacturing types

Figure 5.1 – Manufacturing types

  • Repetitive manufacturing: In repetitive manufacturing, the production line is tuned for manufacturing a single Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) with no or minimum variations. A one-to-one mapping...