In the highly competitive global market, manufacturers are increasingly seeking to optimize their total manufacturing processes by using IoT to collect data from all equipment in factories for visualization and analysis. Developing such IoT systems from scratch, however, is an enormous task requiring data to be collected and modelled from a wide variety of production equipment. To meet these demands Mitsubishi Electric has introduced a new FA-IT Open Platform which creates new value chains by connecting people, processes and things.
The FA-IT Open Platform for factory automation based on edge computing facilitates connectivity between factory shop floors and value chains via Internet of things (IoT) systems to enable the rapid collection, analysis and utilization of data for smart manufacturing.
