Siemens is a German industrial conglomerate whose Digital Industries business sells automation hardware and software to manufacturers and process plants. The portfolio includes SIMATIC programmable controllers, the TIA Portal engineering environment, Industrial Edge devices that run containerized apps next to machines, and Insights Hub, the cloud service formerly called MindSphere, which collects machine data over OPC UA and MQTT for analytics.
Focus: industrial automation, industrial edge.
Tags: plc · opc ua · industrial edge · digital twin · profinet
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