| title | description | author | manager | ms.service | services | ms.topic | ms.date | ms.author |
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Connected Factory solution features - Azure | Microsoft Docs |
An overview of the features of the Connected Factory preconfigured solution. |
dominicbetts |
timlt |
iot-accelerators |
iot-accelerators |
conceptual |
04/20/2018 |
dobett |
Connected Factory is an implementation of Microsoft's Azure Industrial IoT reference architecture, packaged as on open-source solution. You can use it as a starting point for a commercial product. You can deploy a pre-built version of the Connected Factory solution into your Azure subscription from Azure IoT solution accelerators.
Connected Factory includes the following features:
- Connect to industrial assets with an OPC UA interface.
- Use the simulated production lines (running OPC UA servers in Docker containers) to see live telemetry from them.
- Browse the OPC UA information model of the OPC UA servers from a cloud dashboard.
- Configure your OPC UA assets from the cloud dashboard (call methods, read, and write data).
- Publish and unpublish telemetry data from your OPC UA assets from a cloud dashboard.
- View telemetry previews directly in a cloud dashboard.
- View trends in telemetry data and create correlations using the Time Series Insights Explorer dashboard.
- See calculated Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from a cloud dashboard.
- View industrial asset hierarchies in a tree topology as well as on an interactive map.
- View, acknowledge, and close alerts from a cloud dashboard.
- Azure Time Series Insights is built for storing, visualizing, and querying large amounts of time-series data. Connected Factory leverages this service.
- Connected Factory integrates with this service enabling you perform deep, real-time analysis of your device data.
Configure threshold-based rules for alerts.
- Configure security permissions for users using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- End-to-end encryption is implemented using OPC UA authentication (using X.509 certificates) as well as security tokens.
- Customize the solution to meet specific business requirements.
- Full solution source-code available on GitHub. See the Connected Factory preconfigured solution repository.
Learn more about the Connected Factory preconfigured solution by reading the following articles: