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ConverEDGE: machine connectivity across your shop floor

Explore PLC data collection, industrial interoperability and edge computing choices for useful machine connectivity across a mixed shop floor.

Industrial data integration starts with operating context.

Industrial data integration needs equipment identity, timing, units and dependable context so factory teams can use the same records for different decisions.

From a production stop to a supported explanation

A practical way to investigate production downtime: establish the event, examine competing explanations and keep the limits of the evidence visible.

How to connect factory machines to AI: start with OT data

Prepare factory machine data for AI through approved connectivity, production context, useful evaluation and clear responsibility for operating decisions.

Manufacturing

Automotive and power electronics: connect the assembly to its operating demands.

Follow electronic control units and power-conversion assemblies through approved components, joining, thermal integration, traceability and verification.

Manufacturing

Bring the phone's mechanical, software and radio build together.

Follow mobile phone manufacturing through module assembly, battery integration, firmware, device identity and controlled radio-frequency testing.

Manufacturing

Build small consumer devices around the functions people notice.

Explore consumer electronics manufacturing for audio products, wearables and connected devices through assembly, acoustics, pairing and final verification.

Manufacturing

Build the television around the display it actually uses.

Explore television manufacturing through panel handling, module integration, optical inspection, firmware and final interface verification.

Manufacturing

Electronics: from components to finished equipment.

Explore electronics manufacturing from PCB fabrication and PCBA to televisions, mobile phones, appliances, consumer products, automotive power systems and testing.

Manufacturing

Follow the board through printing, placement and reflow.

Connect solder paste inspection, component placement and reflow history to understand process variation in modern electronics assembly.

Manufacturing

Keep the build history intact through every changeover.

Connect component lots, board serials, firmware and approved revisions so electronics manufacturing teams can investigate faults and manage high-mix changeovers.

Manufacturing

Know what each inspection and test result can tell you.

Understand AOI, X-ray, in-circuit and functional testing through coverage, configuration, first-pass yield and a traceable rework history.

Manufacturing

PCB fabrication: preserve the story inside the bare board.

Follow bare printed circuit board fabrication through approved data, material stackup, drilling, plating, inspection and electrical test before assembly.

Manufacturing

PCBA manufacturing: carry the released design through every operation.

Follow printed circuit board assembly from engineering release through mixed assembly, cleanliness, coating, depaneling and final equipment integration.

Manufacturing

Reliability testing: define the claim before choosing the stress.

Distinguish production verification, design qualification and reliability screening, with clear test purpose, representative samples and failure analysis.

Manufacturing

Test appliance electronics in the machine they must control.

Explore home-appliance manufacturing through control boards, motors, sensors, wiring harnesses, software and verification of the finished appliance.

The benefits of a partner with R&D capability.

Explore how R&D capability can help an industrial partnership resolve uncertainty, test equipment and data fit, develop useful solutions and plan ongoing support.

Warehousing & Logistics

Find the real boundary of a handling interruption.

Operational review of conveyors, sorters, scanning and transfer points with upstream and downstream material context.

Aerospace

Give test-rig observations the equipment context they need.

Review test equipment, machine availability, calibration and maintenance history as part of a disciplined aerospace operating investigation.

Aerospace

Keep the part, process and inspection record connected.

Practical questions for reviewing aerospace production activity, process deviations and measurement evidence without confusing an OT record with acceptance authority.

Chemical & Petrochemical Processing

Know what changed in the process—and in the operating mode.

Industrial process-guide for pressure, flow, temperature and composition records during operations, transitions and upset reviews.

Chemical & Petrochemical Processing

Make equipment history useful without bypassing safeguards.

Consider pumps, valves, vessels and exchangers with their duty, work history and authorised mechanical-integrity procedures.

Data Centers

Make infrastructure handovers easier to verify.

Guidance for data center facility shifts, backup power events, maintenance activities and incident timelines across OT systems.

Warehousing & Logistics

Read fleet equipment condition alongside its duty.

Understand vehicle, hoist, storage crane and conveyor equipment observations in operating and maintenance context.

Data Centers

Understand the relationships behind a thermal or power alarm.

Data center guide to cooling configuration, electrical support, load context and the evidence behind an infrastructure operating review.

A cycle time should tell you where the work went.

Explore SPM cycle visibility through meaningful stage boundaries, waiting, blocked conditions, repeated attempts and the sequence behind a production delay.

A signal becomes useful when its context travels with it.

Connect industrial signals and events with equipment identity, timing, units, operating states and quality information for a more useful OT investigation.

Agree what the information means before comparing it.

Build shared meaning for industrial data through equipment identity, operating definitions, units, data integrity and evidence people can trace and correct.

Pharmaceuticals

Bring the supporting systems into the picture.

Explore the equipment, utility paths and measurement context behind pharmaceutical operations, from a service observation to a focused engineering and quality review.

Build a clearer picture of the work people and cobots share.

Explore industrial cobots through application suitability, human work, task quality, operating context and responsibility across the collaborative cell.

Carry the evidence through every stage of DMAIC.

Connect Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control with production context, trustworthy measurements and a clear record of the improvement decision.

Oil & Gas

Carry the operating question into the next shift.

Explore how oil and gas teams can keep operating observations, unresolved work and relevant records understandable as responsibility passes between shifts.

Connect laser-welding signals with the joint they describe.

Explore robotic laser welding through joint identity, equipment context, process-monitoring limits and the evidence needed for quality review.

Pharmaceuticals

Connect the batch with the conditions around it.

A practical guide to relating pharmaceutical batch questions to process stages, equipment history and supporting records without losing the meaning of the evidence.

Data democratization: make industrial information useful.

Explore industrial data democratization: role-appropriate access, shared meaning and operational context for people and AI working across existing OT systems.

Find out where the operating picture breaks.

Evaluate OT observability through real investigation questions, missing records, conflicting timelines and the effort needed to reach a defensible next step.

Find the losses that never become a headline.

Use industrial analytics to examine hidden production losses, micro-stops, rework, energy use and coordination delays with useful OT context.

Follow a performance change through the robot cell.

Explore robot-cell reliability through task context, positioning concerns, end-effectors, waiting, recovery and the evidence around maintenance decisions.

From a condition alert to a decision people can explain.

Make an equipment alert useful across maintenance, operations and planning with a clear question, dependable context and a record of the decision.

Shipping & Ports

Give a machinery observation its operating context.

A practical guide to reviewing ship machinery readings, operating periods and maintenance history, with clear questions for engineering and shore teams.

Food & Beverage

Give a temperature record the context it needs.

Explore food-production temperature and utility records with clear measurement locations, product relationships, time coverage and responsibility for quality review.

Give an AI finding a responsible route into the work.

Explore industrial AI governance through defined use, dependable inputs, evaluation, uncertainty, human responsibility and clear boundaries around OT actions.

Give every check a clear purpose and boundary.

Understand prevention, detection, quality interlocks and safety functions, with operational records that explain what a check confirms and what happens next.

Give projection welding a clearer production record.

Understand projection-welding visibility through component identity, joining sequence, tooling history, process observations and quality evidence.

Give robotic arc welding a traceable operating story.

Connect robotic arc welding records with joint identity, programme changes, consumables, interruptions and inspection without confusing a cycle with acceptance.

Give Six Sigma a dependable operating foundation.

Explore Six Sigma quality control through measurement, process variation, operating context and a practical DMAIC approach to industrial improvement.

Power Generation & Transmission

Give the event a clear place, time and asset.

Explore transmission-asset information through equipment identity, timing, event sequence, maintenance context and the questions behind a useful review.

Keep plasma-welding context as precise as the process.

Explore plasma arc welding with clear process identity, equipment history, sequence visibility and quality records that remain tied to the relevant joint.

Keep the complete application in the safety conversation.

Explore the context needed around cobot applications, including tools, workpieces, human tasks, changes and the boundary between visibility and protection.

Keep the history behind a trusted check.

Explore poka-yoke verification, unavailable checks and authorised exception history, with clear ownership and evidence of restoration.

Keep the operating meaning through the robot’s lifecycle.

Explore robot integration, record ownership, equipment changes and handover so operational information remains understandable beyond commissioning.

Defence

Keep the record connected to the work it describes.

A guide to manufacturing and test information in defence-related industry: item identity, revisions, process context and the distinction between results and acceptance.

Machine condition monitoring in its operating context.

Evaluate machine condition monitoring solutions as one application of connected OT data, alongside production visibility, quality and operational review.

Water & Wastewater

Make a remote update useful to the next person.

Explore remote water and wastewater asset records, data freshness, site observations and maintenance follow-through, with clear distinctions between an update and a confirmed condition.

Manufacturing

Make an equipment change easier to understand.

Explore equipment condition in manufacturing: comparable operating periods, inspection context and the evidence behind a useful maintenance discussion.

Make error-proofing understandable, testable and trusted.

Explore poka-yoke through error prevention, clear detection, verification history and responsible handling of exceptions across industrial operations.

Make machine history useful to maintenance and quality.

Connect special-purpose-machine tooling, service work, production periods and quality findings so maintenance and quality teams can review the same context.

Make responsibility visible when the record changes.

Define ownership, access and change responsibilities for industrial information, equipment mappings, operating definitions and cross-team reviews.

Defence

Make supporting-equipment readiness easier to review.

Explore the information behind manufacturing and test-support facilities: service dependencies, equipment condition, maintenance findings and clear handovers.

Make the logic of a special-purpose machine understandable.

Explore OT visibility for special-purpose machines: cycle sequences, waiting, retries, tooling condition, quality records and a clearer handover.

Make the next shift feel prepared

A practical approach to industrial shift handover: useful records, open questions and a conversation that helps the incoming team understand the work.

Food & Beverage

Make the transition between runs easier to explain.

A practical guide to food production and changeover records: define the work, understand waiting periods and compare transitions in their proper product context.

Measure the shared task, not just the robot’s movement.

Explore cobot task performance through useful outcomes, tool context, human handoffs, repeated attempts and quality evidence for the complete operation.

Open the right information to the right task.

Explore role-appropriate industrial data access for employees, partners and AI applications while preserving scope, information handling and decision responsibility.

OT data governance: make responsibility clear.

Explore OT data governance through information ownership, access, change, evidence and industrial AI, with responsibility close to operating decisions.

OT observability: give industrial monitoring context.

Connect industrial monitoring, equipment events and operating context so production, quality, engineering and security teams can examine the right evidence.

Water & Wastewater

Put the pumping record into its process context.

A practical guide to reviewing pumping and treatment activity with clear equipment identity, operating periods, measurement context and useful comparisons.

Oil & Gas

Read the machine in the context of its duty.

A practical guide to reviewing oil and gas rotating equipment: operating duty, utility context, recent work and the questions behind a changed reading.

See the extra work behind an accepted part.

Explore rework, repeat inspection, idle energy and coordination effort with traceable operating records and careful treatment of overlapping costs.

See the sequence behind each resistance spot weld.

Explore resistance spot welding with part and weld identity, electrode history, repeated attempts, process records and the evidence behind quality decisions.

Turn a loss finding into work people can own.

Build a credible improvement review with a defined baseline, named responsibility, comparable evidence and follow-up that distinguishes results from estimates.

Understand friction stir welding through the whole joint.

Explore friction stir welding with tool and fixture identity, operating context, robotic-system considerations, joint traceability and quality review.

Understand robot performance in the context of the cell.

Explore industrial robots through cell performance, end-effectors, process context, maintenance history and the information needed across the equipment lifecycle.

Manufacturing

Understand the interruptions behind the production total.

Use production monitoring and manufacturing analytics to connect shift totals with jobs, machine states, interruptions and the evidence behind an explanation.

Understand the measurement before judging the variation.

Explore measurement-system analysis, process variation, control versus specification limits and the context needed for a meaningful capability review.

Shipping & Ports

Understand the pause in the handling sequence.

Explore cargo-handling equipment records, waiting periods and cross-team context to give port and terminal interruptions a clearer explanation.

Power Generation & Transmission

Understand the unit and the systems around it.

A guide to reviewing generation equipment and auxiliary systems through operating state, comparable periods, maintenance findings and clear responsibilities.

Understand the work behind every robotic weld.

Explore robotic welding through process identity, weld traceability, equipment condition and quality context, from arc and resistance welding to laser and friction stir.

When small interruptions change the whole shift.

Understand micro-stops and reduced-speed production through cycle timing, equipment states, product context and a clear boundary for counting losses.

Connect machine activity to production visibility.

Use OT data to frame factory monitoring software around production flow, interruptions and the decisions a shift needs to make.

Connect manufacturing quality with process evidence.

Connect process conditions, production records and inspection results to support manufacturing quality investigations.

Give equipment changes a clearer context.

Connect equipment observations with operating history and maintenance experience as one application of a wider OT data foundation.

Turn industrial data into informed operational priorities.

Use industrial analytics and shared operating context to connect production, quality and equipment decisions across teams.