Emerson PACEdge industrial edge platform

The Emerson PACEdge industrial edge platform is designed to help manufacturers with digital transformation projects by enabling users to quickly create and scale up performance-improving applications. The platform simplifies application development by bringing together open-source tools into a secure platform for using machine data and analytics.

Using modern IIoT protocols such as OPC UA, MQTT and REST, the platform provides access to data from industrial control systems and field devices, as well as IT systems and cloud services, for plant or enterprise data aggregation. With drag-and-drop programming and embedded web interfaces and visualisation, users can use this information to quickly create applications and dashboards to analyse and view operational data, such as overall equipment effectiveness, compressed air usage, energy consumption, acceleration and vibration, and other sensor data.

Advanced applications can combine these outputs with external data sources (ie, weather, public utility rates) and machine learning algorithms. Operators in the field have immediate access to diagnostic and production information, allowing them to make decisions quickly.

The PACEdge release coincides with the launch of Emerson’s PACSystems RXi2-BP edge computer, a small form-factor industrial PC that enables high-performance analytics to be run close to the machine.