Overview of Siemens Industrial Edge

Siemens Industrial Edge is the next generation of digital automation. With Siemens Industrial Edge, you can leverage the intelligence and scalability of the cloud directly in your production – simply, efficiently and without your data leaving the production line. Siemens Industrial Edge combines local and high-performance data processing in the automation system itself with the advantages of the cloud: app-based data analysis, data processing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service concepts with central update functionality. In this way, you can quickly integrate apps into manufacturing and manage them with a high degree of automation.

Siemens Industrial Edge allows you to continuously make changes to your automation components and plants, analyze large volumes of data in the automation system to implement innovative functions, such as predictive maintenance, and to achieve maximum flexibility and thus productivity over the entire machine life cycle.

With the Siemens Industrial Edge Hub, you have access to an app store where you can find all Siemens apps and 3^rd party apps. From here, you can manage all licenses for your apps and devices centrally and install updates for security issues, device firmware, apps and Industrial Edge Management.

You can monitor and manage distributed Edge devices centrally in the Industrial Edge Management. In this way, new apps and software functions, for example, can be installed on all connected Edge devices company-wide. Central software management thus minimizes the workload for performing maintenance and updates on individual devices.

On the individual Industrial Edge devices, you can start and run apps and keep statistics on an Edge device, for example.

With the Industrial Edge Publisher, you can develop your own Edge apps and make them available to other users in Industrial Edge Management.

Another component of the Siemens Industrial Edge ecosystem is Industrial Edge Runtime, which is installed on Edge Devices (IED) or Unified Comfort Panels (UCP) and on which the system, including all applications, ultimately runs.