關(guān)于IT/OT融合的新聞鋪天蓋地，但你是否知道， IT/OT融合不僅將會(huì)把IT網(wǎng)絡(luò)和OT網(wǎng)絡(luò)結(jié)合起來，而且還將成為工業(yè)世界即將誕生的一切新生事物的支柱，包括：邊緣計(jì)算、分析、遠(yuǎn)程調(diào)試、協(xié)同機(jī)器人等等。IT/OT融合將為提***、改進(jìn)生產(chǎn)力以及加速解決問題鋪平道路。

在過去幾年間，無論從團(tuán)隊(duì)成員、職責(zé)、優(yōu)先級(jí)別還是從觀念模式而言， IT與OT都是各自為政，分開運(yùn)行。IT部門負(fù)責(zé)經(jīng)營(yíng)業(yè)務(wù)網(wǎng)絡(luò)，以計(jì)算機(jī)、服務(wù)器、存儲(chǔ)器和應(yīng)用程序作為關(guān)注***。OT部門負(fù)責(zé)管理生產(chǎn)環(huán)境中的工業(yè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)，主要關(guān)心的是機(jī)器、設(shè)備、協(xié)議、PLC控制器和SCADA系統(tǒng)。

但時(shí)至今日，一個(gè)新的聯(lián)盟正在悄然形成：

△ 一方面，IT的利益相關(guān)者在OT網(wǎng)絡(luò)中開始掌握更多話語權(quán)；

△ 另一方面，OT網(wǎng)絡(luò)設(shè)計(jì)及工作人員在某些情況下也開始影響IT。由于IT /OT融合的全部意義在于使IT網(wǎng)絡(luò)與OT網(wǎng)絡(luò)之間實(shí)現(xiàn)數(shù)據(jù)共享，因此，我們有理由認(rèn)為IT在聯(lián)網(wǎng)工廠環(huán)境中顯得更加至關(guān)重要。

或許SAP/ERP系統(tǒng)可以作為一個(gè)典型案例，該系統(tǒng)負(fù)責(zé)從車間提取實(shí)時(shí)數(shù)據(jù)，從而使辦公室運(yùn)營(yíng)人員能夠跟蹤、分析如報(bào)廢率及單件成本等數(shù)據(jù)，因此，在傳統(tǒng)意義上被認(rèn)為屬于IT技術(shù)領(lǐng)域。

從車間向辦公室傳遞的信息越多，工廠就越有機(jī)會(huì)識(shí)別各種模式和趨勢(shì)——尤其是在涉及多點(diǎn)生產(chǎn)的時(shí)候。

以Belden為例。我們的生產(chǎn)工廠遍布***；每家工廠的運(yùn)行模式既有相似之處，又千差萬別。如果我們不將工廠信息傳遞給負(fù)責(zé)監(jiān)管多個(gè)工廠的運(yùn)營(yíng)團(tuán)隊(duì)，我們就幾乎沒有機(jī)會(huì)分享實(shí)踐，無法相互學(xué)習(xí)，難以提高設(shè)備效率，更不能將成功流程從一個(gè)工廠推廣到另一個(gè)工廠。The news about it / OT integration is overwhelming, but do you know that it / OT integration will not only combine it network and ot network, but also become the pillar of all new things to be born in the industrial world, including edge computing, analysis, remote debugging, collaborative machine people, etc. It / OT convergence will pave the way for improving productivity and accelerating problem solving.
In the past few years, it and ot have operated separately in terms of team members, responsibilities, priorities and conceptual models. The IT department is responsible for operating the business network, focusing on computers, servers, storage and applications. The OT department is responsible for managing the industrial network in the production environment and is mainly concerned with machines, equipment, protocols, PLC controllers and SCADA systems.
But today, a new alliance is quietly forming:
△ on the one hand, it stakeholders began to have more voice in OT network;
△ on the other hand, OT network design and staff began to affect it in some cases. Since the full significance of it / OT integration is to realize data sharing between IT network and ot network, we have reason to believe that it is more crucial in the networked factory environment.
Perhaps SAP / ERP system can be taken as a typical case. The system is responsible for extracting real-time data from the workshop, so that office operators can track and analyze data such as scrap rate and single piece cost. Therefore, it is traditionally considered to belong to the field of IT technology.
The more information is passed from the workshop to the office, the more opportunities the factory has to identify patterns and trends - especially when multi-point production is involved.
Take Belden as an example. Our production plants are all over * * *; The operation modes of each factory are both similar and different. If we don't pass the factory information to the senior operation team responsible for supervising multiple factories, we will have little opportunity to share practice, learn from each other, improve equipment efficiency, and promote the successful process from one factory to another.