Retrofit with INSYS Icom
Connection of decentralized system landscapes
via INSYS Icom and Orchestra juno
What is a retrofit solution?
Retrofit describes the modernization or expansion of existing plants to meet the requirements of Industry 4.0. In detail, this means that a retrofit solution equips existing machines or plants with modern sensor and communication technology. This not only saves costs compared to a new acquisition – retrofitting also enables previously unreadable machine and process data to be recorded, which can be used to ensure maintenance and thus achieve a general process improvement. Modern legal requirements, such as the limits of emission values, can also be met thanks to retrofitting.
Why retrofit – why is the digitization of legacy systems a good solution?
Hardly any company in industrial manufacturing can escape far-reaching digitization in this day and age. Existing legacy systems and brownfield plants play a decisive role here. In most cases, these do not meet the requirements for successful integration into individual IoT use cases. On the one hand, we observe limitations on the hardware side, such as a lack of sensors. On the other hand, however, there is also a lack of data infrastructure and interfaces for the correct forwarding of machine data. This lack of interoperability can be retrofitted to existing machines using the Orchestra retrofit solution.
Advantages, purpose and goals of a retrofit solution – Digitization with Orchestra
More profitable than new acquisition
When it comes to digitization projects, it is economically advantageous to retrofit existing machines and systems. Retrofitting is often significantly cheaper than purchasing and installing new machines. In this way, you also avoid an economic standstill caused by new installations.
Better integration, better networking
The emerging connection of brownfield plants leads to comprehensive improvements in connectivity. With the right integration architecture based on the Manufacturing Service Bus Orchestra, a wide range of use cases can be implemented. From closed-loop production to MES integration and predictive maintenance. Data must be made available and provided.
With Orchestra, we make you fit for your IoT use case
With minimal downtime and the smallest possible effort, we can make your existing legacy systems as well as machines and plants fit for the future thanks to retrofitting through serial interfaces, Modbus, S7 and our strong partner network. Our experts always support you in semantic enrichment of data flows and information models.
Orchestra Success Story:
Retrofit project with our partner INSYS Icom
Together with our partner INSYS Icom, a flexible, geographically independent infrastructure was created to network decentralized systems from 150 locations. During the successful retrofit, care was taken to take over existing legacy systems and to convert them to current standards for the new requirements. INSYS Icom is specialized in components and solutions for the secure communication of M2M and IoT applications. The connection of the decentralized system landscapes with the retrofit solution brings numerous digitization advantages:
Provision of a flexible, geographically independent infrastructure
Investment protection of existing IT systems to current standards through retrofit
Provision of information by networking decentralized systems with internal and external IT systems
Channeled communication between decoupled layers
Low configuration effort
Practical implementation of the retrofit solution
The implementation was based on the Orchestra juno Plug & Produce concept with the support of the INSYS Icom Gateway and the juno Edge Client. After the roll-out, it was thus possible to use juno as a data buffer in case of network interruptions. The Iiot solution juno thus serves as an intermediate module, a so-called middleware, which maps the data from the old protocol to the new one. The resulting preconfigured solution can quickly and easily preprocess raw data directly at the plant or machine at the respective location, aggregate it and make it available to the communication partners. Local processing and filtered forwarding of data to higher-level systems additionally reduce network traffic. This approach allows machine data to be integrated via standard protocols and makes secure remote maintenance available.
Advantages of the retrofit solution
Secure all the advantages that Industry 4.0 brings for you and your company by retrofitting and modernizing. The retrofit is just one possibility in addition to our many success stories, such as a successful SAP integration or modern data monitoring.
Safe into the future
through variable Retrofit
Fail-safe
through local data buffering
Cost-saving
Through optimization and minimum configuration effort
With Orchestra you build
your own Industrial Suite.
Fully modular and customizable to your IIoT use case.
- Low-code approach thanks to graphical user interface
- Highly scalable through integration of various protocols and formats
- Transparent monitoring of your data flows
Rica Holzmann
