Making UMH Production Ready

How to customize your Installation to ready it for production use.

Here we show you what adjustments you can make to the United Manufacturing Hub to custom fit it to your shop floor.

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Enabling RBAC for MQTT Broker

This article explains how to enable Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for the MQTT broker.

Setting up the HiveMQ PKI

Setting up a PKI infrastructure for the MQTT broker HiveMQ

Enable data compression and retention in TimescaleDB

This article explains how to compress data stored in TimescaleDB, and how to automatically remove old datapoints.

Connecting the United Manufacturing Hub with Tulip

Combine all shop floor data with work instructions from Tulip (http://www.tulip.co/) using the UMH approach. This approach does not require opening ports and additionally allows to deeply integrate Tulip into the shopfloor IT.

Setting up the PKI infrastructure

How to setup the PKI infrastructure for MQTT in the United Manufacturing Hub

Setting up Azure IoT Hub

Azure IoT Hub enabled highly secure and reliable communication between IoT applications and the devices it manages. This article explains how to set it up and links to the official Microsoft Azure documentation. It provides additional information that are required for mechanical engineers working in Industrial IoT.

Connecting with Azure IoT Hub

Azure IoT Hub enabled highly secure and reliable communication between IoT applications and the devices it manages. In this article it is described how one can connect the United Manufacturing Hub with Azure IoT hub. In this tutorial we are leveraging the fact that Azure IoT Hub is nothing but a MQTT broker with benefits (e.g., device management or REST API). We will therefore create a connection via MQTT.

Last modified February 17, 2023: update (#208) (ea731fc)