By: Dr. Michael Gerstlauer
Overview
Siemens Industrial Edge is an on-prem edge device collecting data from shopfloor assets. With direct connectivity to Snowflake, OT data can be moved into the cloud and made available for IT/OT integration and advanced analytics.
Detailed View of Snowflake / Siemens Industrial Edge: Leveraging Siemens Access to the Shopfloor
Siemens Industrial Edge is an edge/on-prem platform, offering functionalities like edge device management and connectors. Connectors are deployed via a Siemens marketplace and centrally managed on the edge through the common configurator.
- Common Configurator transfers data via the Snowflake connector that subscribes to topics and creates tags.
- Raw data landed in Snowflake
- Build harmonized data layer, mapping time series, orders, bill of materials into a process digital twin.
- Perform analytical operations on harmonized data layer.