Category: Visualization

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ThinManager® and FactoryTalk® Optix™—Streamlining OT with Containers

Rylee Domonkos

Modern industrial control systems (ICS) face growing challenges, such as how to ensure consistent performance, minimize downtime, manage increasingly complex applications, the expansion of edge devices and central servers over distributed architecture, and maintain security— all without requiring advanced technical skills. In our previous post, we discussed how containers bundle applications with their dependencies for reliable, lightweight deployment across IT and OT environments. Now, let’s explore how Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix and ThinManager use containers to address these issues head-on, simplifying operations and empowering your team. [...]

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Introduction to Containerization: Bridging IT and OT

Rylee Domonkos

Containerization is a virtualization technique that has existed since at least 2008. It is a type of software deployment that bundles together everything needed to run in a single package. This includes an application and all its dependencies. While historically it’s been used in Information Technology (IT) environments, it has recently been gaining traction in Operational Technology (OT). Modern containerization, popularized by Docker® since 2013, enables efficient, portable application deployment across diverse environments. Industry standards focusing on user experience with containerization have been formed by the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Containerization gives the ability to run applications that would have otherwise been limited by device or operating system. The goal of this post is to demonstrate containerization’s power to streamline application deployment across IT and OT environments, transforming efficiency in modern Industrial Control Systems (ICS). [...]

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What’s New in ThinManager®

Tom Jordan

Join us as we explore new features of ThinManager 13.1

Discover new ways to deliver content, interact with your system and automatically respond to events on the plant floor. ThinManager Application Engineer, Nick Neppach, will demonstrate some of the newest capabilities from the platform including Containers, API, ThinManager Events and the all new ThinManager Logix PinPoint during this live presentation!

Click the link below to download a PDF of the presentation.

ThinManager What’s New 13.1 PresentationDownload

For more information on ThinManager, please contact customersuccess@thinmanager.com [...]

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System Integrator Uses Thin Client Technology to Improve Visualization for International Lime Supplier

Tom Jordan

Singleton Birch Ltd is the UK’s leading independent lime supplier with a worldwide customer base. The product range includes quicklime, hydrated lime, natural hydraulic lime, graded chalk, aggregates and other specialist products and services. 

Over the last few years, Singleton Birch has worked to optimize production operations. They have moved from a localized, plant-based approach to a centralized control room scenario with field-based operators communicating directly with the CCR (Central Control Room). [...]