This document discusses how improved communications through IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) can help address challenges in manufacturing. It outlines some key benefits like improved inventory control, reduced lead times and material costs, and less waste. It also discusses technical potential for automation, integration models, requirements for an IIoT system, an example implementation using various protocols, and how people will continue to be important drivers of new IIoT technologies. It raises questions about how new technologies like blockchain could enable sharing of economic benefits.

1. IIoT: Better Communications
Chris Misztur

2. IIoT: Better Communications
MacLean-Fogg Company
Discrete Manufacturing
Tier 1 Supplier
Tier 2 Supplier

3. IIoT: Better Communications
Challenges
Fundamental
Inventory Control
Lead Times
Material Costs
Waste
Market
Acquisitions
Skilled Workforce
Company
New Skills
Standards
Integration
Automation

4. IIoT: Better Communications
Technical Potential for Automation in Manufacturing
Source: McKinsey
http://bit.ly/22VEAXQ
http://bit.ly/2lVjYfp
Activity
Data Collection
Data Processing
Predictable Physical Work
Percent of Time Spent
22%
11%
33%
66%
“Production” Occupation Family

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Integration Model
EnterpriseFieldbus
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
DATA STORES
EXTERNAL SERVICES
B2B
?
1. Low Cost
2. Measurable Improvement
3. User Friendly
4. Enabling and Non-Disruptive
5. On Premise
6. Diverse Protocol Support
7. Process State and Context Awareness
8. Complex Event Processing
Requirements

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Example
Counts Pieces
Visual Machine State
Requests Assistance
WC 100
MODBUS
HTTP,
MQTT,
CoAP
SCHEDULE
PRODUCTION
REPORTING
SUPPORT
MATERIAL
HANDLING
MESSAGE
BROKER
OPC-UA
SERVER
EVENT
PROCESSOR
ANALYTICSREMOTE
HMI
STATE AND
CONTEXT

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People Drive the Tech
CONTROLS
ENGINEER
ENTERPRISE
ARCHITECT
PROCESS
EXPERT
EVENT CONTRACT

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Economy of Things
Source: Reddit
http://bit.ly/2uegn3s
"Vehicles, heading the same direction for a certain time, meet by chance and vote for
cooperation instead of competition for space and right of way. The IOTA Tangle
serves as a basic infrastructure to enable sharing mutual economic benefits amongst
the platoon participants."
blockchain: “a digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another
cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly.”

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Questions
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