From shopfloor to topfloor

From shopfloor to topfloor –
How to make smart manufacturing work

With tools such as the io-key®, individual components, machines or entire production lines can be digitised easily and straightforwardly. That’s smart. But it’s not smart manufacturing yet. Because that requires integrating the production level into enterprise systems and vice versa. Certainly not just a technical question — but with apollo you can find answers.

A strict boundary runs through every company between shopfloor and topfloor. Anyone who wants to even come close to unlocking the potential of the IIoT has to cross it. Over there: IT. The refined world of enterprise software, ERP and CRM systems. Highly digitised, with standardised processes that can be scaled easily. Over here: the field level — OT. This is where the work happens. Digitisation? Not a chance. Applications are too small, every machine and every work step too different for IT to bother with it.

Until now. Because with apollo, the io-key® brings structured and readable sensor data into an existing cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or in a private environment. apollo takes care of data preparation and delivers sensor values from the connected sensor to the broker via MQTT in under 1 minute. This means all relevant data are available in one system, enabling end-to-end transparency and integration of OT and IT.

You can take all that on faith — or simply try it for yourself. With a software io-key® and apollo you can run your own integration tests free of charge. Just sign up at apollo - your sensor in any cloud.