Real Time Data Access – Never Worry about Stale Data Again.
Stashing, sorting and providing data is no big deal. All currently available industrial middleware platforms are able to convey messages from A to B. But when you need access to your data in real time, the game changes. Can you be sure a specific sensor input is fresh? Is everything in your snapshot up to date?
With indigo, you never have to worry. Our unique synchronized data access paradigm guarantees that all your processes will always find an up to date, real time image of your physical systems.
We liquify your data so it flows faster.
Semantic and Networked Data Structure – Never Search for Your Data Again.
The indigo data model allows you to access any variable, any sensor, any actor from anywhere without even knowing their location. Using semantic name spaces, physical location becomes meaningless – even across system and network boundaries. Using different topologies on the same model, you can display your data in different structures at the same time. Your developers prefer a logical grouping structure keeping all items of the same type close together while yourr electrical engineers demand a tree structure closely mirroring the physical reality? No problem – you can have both.
Our unique distributed data model also means you can expand your project at any time. Adding new machines? Just link their local I/O into the existing model – done. Need more processing power? Add another computer and move parts of the model into its memory. The possibilities are endless.
No borders, no boundaries – flow anywhere.
Timing Control – Never be Late.
indigo features an innovative timing system based on modeling all processes across your systems. The fine grained controls allow you to make sure actions are always on time – with microsecond accuracy. Tasks depending on the results of others don’t have to guess if their predecessor has successfully run because timing control won’t let them start until all prerequisites are in place.
But indigo goes a step further: It synchronizes clocks and timings throughout your networked systems. No more inaccuracies, no more lag. It’s like magic.
Make sure time flows your way.
Unlimited Connectivity – Works with Everything.
Sensors, actors, regulators, field buses, networks, user interfaces, log streams, machines, PLCs… Modern industrial systems have vast amounts of connections to the outside world and between each other. With the trend towards connected factories in the vein of Industry 4.0, more and more messaging buses are entering the picture too, and with no standard in sight, it’s easy to back the wrong horse… unless you have indigo. Our open interface system allows any amount of I/O skills and plug-ins. Integrating new sensors? Get the appropriate skill from the indigo marketplace and slot it right in. Upstreaming to a Big Data provider that insists on a specific protocol? We’ve got you covered.
Oh, and in case you run across some exotic hardware that we don’t support yet? No problem – with the ease that comes with indigo’s open interfaces, designing your own skills for specialized hardware becomes a walk in the park.
Drink from every stream. Channel into any canal.
Built for I4.0 – Your Factory of the Future.
Ask 10 industry leaders what “Industry 4.0” is and how it will affect your business – chances are you will receive 11 different answers. The one thing they will all have in common is “it’s coming, and it’s going to be important”. Yet how do you prepare for a revolution that everybody agrees is looming but nobody can predict any details about? Simple: By keeping your options open. With indigo, we offer a platform that is based on the basic tenets of Industry 4.0 – interconnectedness, modularity, and distributed intelligence – without being bound by any of the constraints imposed by the competing wannabe standards currently being pushed by market actors.
Our open interfaces allow you to adapt to any external data sources and messaging systems as well as Big Data solutions. Our digital twin concept makes integration of existing machines of any complexity a breeze. And future technologies can be adapted as easily as existing 40+ year old sites.
Go with the flow, but stay independent.
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