Enabling Industry 4.0 for Multi-tiered Quality and Process Control in Precision Manufacturing of Composites
Kimberly Williams
AS PART OF A SCRA GRANT for the unification of various connected systems, Clemson researchers deployed a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system program called Ignition on a Windows server hosted at a Clemson University data center. The system was connected to a MySQL database for continuous logging of all desired parameters for the various devices and machines connected to Ignition.
The program enables connections via OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP, and various proprietary drivers...