Databridge
Solution for automatic industrial
data acquisition and processing.
DATABRIDGE
In an increasingly competitive environment, and for companies to succeed, it is critical to optimize their various production processes structurally and incrementally.
Knowing how to incorporate the Data-Information-Knowledge paradigm in our value chain effectively is essential.
1
Data
2
Information
3
Knowledge
The Oncontrol Databridge is a flexible, modular and extensible software that automates the first two steps (data acquisition and information management), allowing the transition of data between various devices in a transparent and automatic way.
Its main aim is to acquire and transmit data between equipment and production systems. This software has no limitations regarding protocols or quantity of data to transfer.
Databridge was developed using the “Extract-Transform-Load” methodology, widely used and tested in IT solutions. Through this approach, large amounts of data can be transferred on a global scale.
Features
Oncontrol’s Databridge
provides the following features:
Extract
In industrial environments, there are different protocols for communication between various devices. In manufacturing equipment, industrial “fieldbuses” of communication are very common.
There has been an increasing need to merge manufacturing equipment with enterprise systems such as databases, task scheduling systems, ERP systems, or other systems with their own complexities and specificities.
Databridge has a wide range of communication protocols at its disposal that allow access to data from different field devices and other business equipment.
Transform
Field data often does not provide the necessary information for problem-solving. Creating variables with relevant information requires the data to undergo certain mathematical transformations.
Databridge has a set of these transformations which can be used to process existing data, even if it originated from other transformation modules.
Load
After performing all necessary operations, sending the data to its destination is essential. Databridge has a wide range of data transmission protocols to reach most data field devices or corporative softwares.
Information Flow
The features presented above allow you to manipulate data safely and with ease. However, controlling the data flow between different application modules is necessary.
For this purpose, Databridge has a complex system of managing data streams, allowing data transfer between several existing blocks.
Flexibility and Expandability
Databridge was developed based on flexibility and expandability. Flexibility is guaranteed by the possibility of combining several blocks so that they can be used to solve different problems for which they were initially designed.
Databridge was built in a modular form, making the development of the new modules rapid and expeditious. If further developments are needed to solve new problems, the focus will be on the required modules rather than the currently existing ones. However, the existing modules can be reutilized to build the new ones.
Robustness
The modules developed for this platform have been successfully re-used in various Oncontrol clients. The whole platform has been tested in multiple applications, proving its robustness.
When new module developments are needed, the binding mechanisms between the platform and the modules have already been tested. Thus, any occurring errors are consequently easier to detect and correct.
