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Heterogeneous machines and assets of different technical statuses and ages build the foundation of most plants. They speak different languages and often lack encrypted data streams. That is why digitalizing these assets is perceived as expensive, complicated, and lengthy. And cyber threats are an increasing threat to manufacturers.
Machines deliver digital data, enabling transparency on your shop floor. So you can see what’s happening and optimize your production processes. Transparency allows you to:
- Increase efficiency
- Decrease production costs
- Ensure quality
- Comply with standards and regulations set by the industry or legislation
So, how can you extract digital data from these assets? And ensure secure and reliable data streams?
That’s where AC4DC comes into play, offering a solution that relieves you from the complexity and cost of digitalizing assets.
Receive highly available and secure data streams
AC4DC is a connectivity solution that tackles these challenges. It translates data from legacy machines to high-end assets into a standardized semantic language that MES and ERP systems can understand. It provides a highly available and secure data stream, utilizing advanced encryption and redundancy measures to gain transparency on the shop floor.
Get started quickly
A guided configuration wizard and structured user interface make it easy for you to get started with AC4DC.
Ensure Future-Proof Connectivity
With AC4DC, you receive future-proof interfaces that ensure you are always prepared to connect all assets, no matter how your plant evolves.
Integrate Data into your Higher-Level Systems
AC4DC uses the latest standard communication protocols to achieve compatibility with higher-level systems.
Ensure Fail-Safe Data Capturing
Thanks to next-generation technologies and software architecture, AC4DC is highly robust and resistant to failure. Cluster technology secures a continuous data stream. Even if one unit breaks down, the others will take over the load.
Benefit from a Resilient Data Supply
Data buffering protects your data in case of a network failure.
Run the Software with Minimal Hardware Requirements
AC4DC is a lightweight software. It even runs on industrial micro-PCs, reducing hardware costs and bringing the software as close to your machines as possible.
Secure your Data Streams
Assets without encrypted signals open the door for industrial espionage and cyber-attacks. AC4DC encrypts data when sending them to your 3rd party systems. So, the closer AC4DC gets to the assets, the lower the risk.
Scale Fast
The template-based approach, which provides pre-configured settings and workflows, allows for a fast rollout across multiple plants and locations, which builds the base for comparable asset data.
Start small, scale fast. AC4DC will help you gain transparency – fast, efficient, and secure.
