Assets
The Assets section in Designer is where you define, organize, and manage the physical and logical structure of your operations. This area provides a flexible framework for modeling your plant, site, production lines, equipment, and other assets, enabling powerful contextualization of your data and seamless integration with industrial standards.
Within the Assets section, you’ll find tools for modelling detailed hierarchies, configuring properties and tags, managing data connections, and maintaining control over asset versions and structure. This forms the configuration needed for all device deployments in Tricloud Nexus.
Key Features
Asset Hierarchies
Model the real-world structure of your organization or facility using customizable asset hierarchies. Easily map physical sites, areas, production lines, and machines to their digital twins. Support for standards like ISA-95 ensures interoperability and consistent organization across all your projects.
Data Connectors
Configure and manage connections to your industrial equipment and data sources. Data connectors allow you to integrate with a wide range of protocols and platforms, such as OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, FTP, File Shares, and more. These connections form the backbone for reliable data acquisition and control.
Tags
Tags are the individual measurement points and control signals that bring your assets to life. In Tricloud Nexus, you can organize, configure, and enrich tags to enable precise data collection, processing, and storage. Define custom measurement types, sampling intervals, scaling factors, and metadata to suit your specific operational requirements. Tag values can be read from data connectors for monitoring and analytics, or written back to equipment for automated control- enabling bidirectional data flows throughout your asset hierarchy.
Models
Deploy and manage analytical or machine learning models directly within your asset hierarchy, hosting them as containers at the Edge. Seamlessly configure input and output tags to connect your models with live operational data. This allows your asset hierarchy to provide real-time inputs to your models, process their outputs, and store results efficiently - unlocking advanced analytics, automation, and decision support at the Edge of your operations.
Summary
The Assets area empowers you to create a comprehensive digital representation of your operations, making it easy to contextualize data, ensure data quality, and enable advanced analytics and automation throughout your IIoT ecosystem.
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