Discrete manufacturing needs access to data to ensure the automated systems and machines are operating efficiently and to capacity. However, modern manufacturing or, more pointedly, the data in automation control systems are often siloed. Breaking down the walls to access the data and to make it make sense are just a few of the goals in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, when just having a website may be difficult, how can the machine data be mapped to standard architectures and cloud infrastructures?Well, that's a long story, but an example is how MachineMetrics in Northampton, Massachusetts, teamed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a solution…
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