In a production stream, not everything is always on site. Some things are off-site. Fault on these off-site equipment will reduce overall production. Due to this, routine maintenance needs to be done on these equipment. As they are located far away, these routine checks can be difficult and time consuming.

Open-Plant Connectors are deployed at remote locations with ease. The connector app is very lightweight and can be installed on any existing windows machines. We have even used in on small pc sticks like the following:

Open-Plant Connectors accepts various communication protocols such as MQTT, OPCDA, OPCUA and Restful APIs. IoT sensors can be easily equipped with a SIM card and send data to Open-Plant.

Robbins is a US based company that manufactures Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), a machine used to dig underground tunnels. With every TBM sale, the company had to include a costly third party TBM IoT software part of their delivery package. The proprietary software had a hefty license cost and a complicated deployment process. This added a significant ammount to the cost of sale. 

Robbins engaged Open-Plant to build their Industrial IoT application. With Open-Plant's all-in-one solution, such application was done with ease. The overall cost was signifantly lower than any mainstream IoT platforms. On top of that, Robbins enjoyed all features that Open-Plant included i.e Excel reports, analytics, historian and etc.