Today, effective maintenance, process control and production planning, as well as production optimisation, is not possible without collecting technological and production data. Are you about to embark on your data acquisition journey? What is important is to start with collecting data from control systems and to analyse it correctly.

But, what if data sources are hard to access and you need to collect data from:

• Remote sites where it is impossible to build networks, be it in a manufacturing plant or in an outdoor location
• Moving objects, such as robotic arms, conveyors and cars
• An environment that does not provide any data – there are currently no systems in place to monitor values and there is no infrastructure
• Sites where building networks would be too expensive
• Control systems whose data has to be accessible to several different applications and/or people across the plant and/or the world