A talk at BE 5.0: connecting the oldest machines
At BE 5.0 Industrie du Futur, Sycon gave a talk on connecting machines quickly, including those that were never designed for it.
BE 5.0 Industrie du Futur gathers manufacturers with a workshop to modernise and a deadline. Sycon's talk covered the case catalogues address least: the old machine, with no accessible controller and no documentation.
The problem as it was framed
Connecting a recent machine is a configuration problem. Connecting a thirty-year-old machine is an observation problem: you have to choose what to measure from the outside (vibration, electrical consumption, running states), and then check that the measurement says something about the process.
What makes installation quick
The Sybox gateway sits near the machines and raises its own LTE-M link: it asks nothing of the site's IT network. Syway sensors attach to the machine and talk to it over low-energy Bluetooth. What remains is where to place the sensors, and that is a question of trade knowledge, not of IT.