We often talk about IT/OT convergence in terms of networking aspects, but what about IT/OT software convergence? The future of industrial automation software will be in modular and portable containerized solutions. We were privileged to be chosen by Red Hat to design and build some R&D test stands. They are using these to test and showcase different manufacturing use cases for their powerful platform. …more to come. Thanks for the collaboration Dave Rapini and John Archer.
Much like the revolution that’s already happened in IT and the telecom industry, industrial automation is just starting a transition. Modern control architectures will include systems that are interoperable, software that is portable, and integration of components that are well defined through standards based APIs. These test stands were designed, built, and programmed by Kanavu Automation and Red Hat They highlight the deployment advantages, greatly simplified integration, automated maintenance, and better overall cost profile of the modern open solution over the proprietary closed system. The ability to containerize applications and even PLC’s allows portability, management, native diagnostics, and high availability capabilities of these different industrial use cases while still meeting the performance requirements of each. The left test stand showcases Red Hat's platform interacting with physical PLC architectures (Rockwell Automation ControlLogix and Flex IO), and the right test stand showcases Red Hat's platform interacting with virtual PLC architectures (Codesys with Opto22 groov OPC UA Remote IO). Dave Rapini #redhat #plc #manufacturing #industrialautomation #moderncontrols
