Connected Series, Part 2 of 6 | Smart Manufacturing and Logistics
Connected Series, Part 2 of 6 | Smart Manufacturing and Logistics Headline: The car taught the industry how to build this architecture. The factory is now an application of the same lesson, and the supply chain is the same architecture one layer out. This week, we are sharing Connected: A Case Study in Six Sections 1. Connected Vehicles 2. Smart Manufacturing and Logistics (today) 3. Semiconductors 4. Robotics 5. Digital Twins 6. Energy and Storage The Setup A connected vehicle and a modern plant are the same architecture at different scales. Both are software-defined systems built from networked subsystems that sense, decide, act, and update. Read the mapping and the rest follows. The Architecture: Subsystem Parallels Electronic control units and domain controllers map to programmable logic controllers, edge controllers, and cell controllers. Both moved from many small distributed brains toward fewer consolidated ones. CAN bus...