Cutting edge manufacturing processes rely more and more on data collected from the plant floor for quality assurance, production planning and machine maintenance.
Traditionally this has been accomplished through large software packages often provided by the PLC manufacturer or a dedicated SCADA package. These solutions have very heavy-duty computing requirements and expensive yearly license structures.
The IoT revolution has brought the same quality of data collection and visualization tools to everyone at a significantly lower cost if not zero cost for software.
A modern SCADA application could consist of:
- OPC UA for PLC communications
- node-opcua to bring OPC UA into the JavaScript programming environment
- Javascript for both historian and HMI applications
- InfluxDB for historian data storage
- Chronograf for data visualization
This group of software can be used to power a complete SCADA system and has zero licensing cost.
Contact Matt today to discuss a Modern SCADA solution for your machine or plant.