Growing Scaling and Managing the Industrial Edge

Growing, Scaling and Managing the Industrial EdgeWith the need for reduced latency, data contextualization and more data available at the source, the industrial edge is critical to data collection, analytics and operations management across devices. Edge management is the next frontier to accelerate deployments and enable AI-driven process optimization. Why Edge Computing MattersAccording to Gartner, digital transformation is pushing enterprises to be more distributed and expand to the edge. With SaaS in the cloud and at the edge, FactoryTalk Edge Manager gives edge computing a new role because it retains connectivity between OT systems and the cloud. And, once deployed, edge devices need to pull information from HMIs, PLCs, drives and databases.