關于IT/OT融合的新聞鋪天蓋地，但你是否知道， IT/OT融合不僅將會把IT網(wǎng)絡和OT網(wǎng)絡結合起來，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：邊緣計算、分析、遠程調(diào)試、協(xié)同機器人等等。IT/OT融合將為提***、改進生產(chǎn)力以及加速解決問題鋪平道路。

在過去幾年間，無論從團隊成員、職責、優(yōu)先級別還是從觀念模式而言， IT與OT都是各自為政，分開運行。IT部門負責經(jīng)營業(yè)務網(wǎng)絡，以計算機、服務器、存儲器和應用程序作為關注***。OT部門負責管理生產(chǎn)環(huán)境中的工業(yè)網(wǎng)絡，主要關心的是機器、設備、協(xié)議、PLC控制器和SCADA系統(tǒng)。

但時至今日，一個新的聯(lián)盟正在悄然形成：

△ 一方面，IT的利益相關者在OT網(wǎng)絡中開始掌握更多話語權；

△ 另一方面，OT網(wǎng)絡設計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)絡與OT網(wǎng)絡之間實現(xiàn)數(shù)據(jù)共享，因此，我們有理由認為IT在聯(lián)網(wǎng)工廠環(huán)境中顯得更加至關重要。

或許SAP/ERP系統(tǒng)可以作為一個典型案例，該系統(tǒng)負責從車間提取實時數(shù)據(jù)，從而使辦公室運營人員能夠跟蹤、分析如報廢率及單件成本等數(shù)據(jù)，因此，在傳統(tǒng)意義上被認為屬于IT技術領域。

從車間向辦公室傳遞的信息越多，工廠就越有機會識別各種模式和趨勢——尤其是在涉及多點生產(chǎn)的時候。

以Belden為例。我們的生產(chǎn)工廠遍布***；每家工廠的運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責監(jiān)管多個工廠的運營團隊，我們就幾乎沒有機會分享實踐，無法相互學習，難以提高設備效率，更不能將成功流程從一個工廠推廣到另一個工廠。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.