Cisco Live Berlinhttps://blogs.cisco.com/manufacturing/digital-manufacturing-transformation-preview <snip>
Talk with our networking gurus about our Connected Factory solution, a network backbone that can handle the demands and unleash the possibilities of digital technology. Learn how adopting a tested and validated architecture, including factory wireless, will
allow your manufacturing processes to securely operate at higher levels of performance, efficiency, and uptime. And see how a connected machine solution can take OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) to new levels leveraging fog computing. Be sure to ask for a sneak peek at some new offerings as well. Our new portfolio of products, solutions, services, design guides, and industry standards bring the full power of Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture to manufacturing and energy:
Our new offerings include:
- A new security bundle to better protect your intellectual property and production integrity.
- A new software offering delivering a unified KPI dashboard from high value manufacturing assets to business managers that enables technicians to monitor and boost operational efficiency by identifying and optimizing under performing machines, production lines, or sites.
- A new purpose built network automation platform for industrial operation teams with switching, unified computing, and firewall capability to securely take full advantage of industrial ethernet connectivity and increase system availability.
- Cisco leadership in new industry standards around Time Sensitive Networking (TSN). Learn how time critical applications can be handled with determinism over Industrial Ethernet.
https://blogs.cisco.com/manufacturing/iot-innovation-heats-up-in-berlin <snip>
For operations teams to reduce downtime and improve
overall equipment effectiveness, Maciej emphasized the importance of including predictive analytics using a connected device topology. When implementing an IoT solution, Maciej shared one should “dream big, but start small.” Start with a usable solution and scale it across your environment.
Our guests dove deeper into Cisco’s manufacturing solutions, starting with Vikas Butaney, General Manager of Cisco’s IoT portfolio. Vikas spoke on
the importance of using IoT as a foundational technology for accelerating business outcomes and embracing digital transformation using IT, security, and networking infrastructure. While transitioning to IoT can seem daunting, Vikas described
simplifying implementation using IoT-ready devices, making it much easier to connect, manage, adapt, and deploy.
We concluded our day with product demos where our customers and partners visualized our Manufacturing and IoT solutions in action. Cisco Manufacturing Twitter: https://twitter.com/CiscoMFG?lang=en
...where you will commonly see things like:
If they're doing OEE demos at their booth, one would expect it is Merlin in the demo. And then from the video in an earlier post on SH, and various other presentations, OEE is mentioned over and over again as a prime motivator for customers to adopt the connected factory vision, and when applications are discussed in this stack, it is "Merlin" (usually without the Memex).
Unless Cisco outright screws Memex somehow, I can't see how Merlin being at the core of one of Cisco's hot new initiatives isn't going to translate into sales.
Although, I wonder how flexible Merlin is in verticals other than CNC manufacturing, is the cost justification more difficult when being proposed in a field that Merlin hasn't been designed specifically for?