Connectivity Solutions

End-to-End Shopfloor Connectivity for Edge and Cloud-based Services enable you to establish a connection between production network, Industrial Edge Ecosystem and the MindSphere with total integration into your IT and OT landscape.

Support:

If you have questions about this service, please contact us: https://www.siemens.com/contact-me?Country=ww&Service=Customer%20Request:%20Connectivity%20Solutions

Your need:

• Connect machines despite of their different capabilities, degree of automation, different controllers and protocols and so on.
• Exchange data between shop floor and IT systems.
• Deal with missing data availability and quality.
• Get and collect data from separated domains “Data-Silos”.

Our service offer:

After a free pre-check for feasibility, our Siemens experts guide you through the following process:

Assessment:

• Gathering information (e.g. OT/IT infrastructure, date to be transferred, restrictions, etc.)
• Definition of connectivity solution
• Offer implementation service including BOM of needed HW and SW or Individual customized approach

Preparation

• Offsite preparation for commissioning based on Assessment information (e.g. work instructions, test plan, preconditions onsite, etc.)
• Pre-configuration of HW and SW
• Coordinated schedule for commissioning

Implementation

• Implementation of connectivity solution into your OT/IT infrastructure
• Final configuration of HW and SW
• Acceptance test based on defined scope
• Hand-over

• Time-effective establishment of connectivity with state-of-the-art technologies
• Asset agnostic and manufacturer independent connectivity service from one supplier
• Connectivity ensures quality and availability within a customer specific digital solution

Connectivity solutions and protocols we support:

Standardized Industrial Edge Approach:

Available Hardware and Protocols ¹

Clouds

• Insights Hub (Siemens Cloud)
• AWS
• Azure
• SAP R/3
• Senseye Predictive Maintenance

Available Hardware

• SIMATIC IPC127E
• SIMATIC IPC227E
• SIMATIC IPC427E
• SIMATIC IPC847E
• Industrial Edge Virtual Device

Protocols

• S7
• S7+
• OPC UA
• PROFINET IO
• Modbus TCP
• EtherNet/IP (Omron & Allen Bradley PLC)
• MQTT

¹ Offering is limited to the regional availability of hard- and software

Standardized MindConnect Approach:

Available Hardware and Protocols ¹

Available HW and Gateway

• MindConnect Nano
• MindConnect Software Agent
• MindConnect IoT 2040
• MindConnect IoT 2050

Protocols

• S7
• OPC UA
• MODBUS TCP
• MODBUS RTU
• Other from MindConnect supported Protocols on request

¹Offering is limited to the regional availability of hard- and software

Standardized Brownfield Connectivity - Gateway Approach

Industrial Connectors for Northbound are available for:

• MindSphere FleetManager
• MindSphere SINUMERIK Service Assistance
• MindSphere MMM Dashboard
• MindSphere APPs (MindConnect API)
• Analyze MyPerformance – SINUMERIK Integrate 4.1
• Data Base Export to MySQL
• Data Base Export to Microsoft SQL Server
• Data Base Export to InfluxDB
• Data Base Export to Elasticsearch
• Data Base Export to Kafka
• OPC UA
• HTTP-Rest-API
• MQTT
• WebDav

Industrial Connectors for Southbound are available for:

PRO

• SINUMERIK 840D pl – HMI Advanced for Retrofit
• SINUMERIK 840D sl – PCU50/TCU - Operate
• SINUMERIK 828D – PPU – Operate
• SINUMERIK ONE
• Heidenhain
• FANUC – CNC Controls with FOCAS 1&2
• MT Connect Agent
• OPC UA4
  

BASIC

• Modbus TCP devices
• S7-Protocol (RFC 1006)
• HTTP Rest API
• MQTT
• Beckhoff TwinCAT (ADS)
• EtherNet/IP (Rockwell & Allen-Bradley)
• Omron FINS

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