United Manufacturing Hub

These guides are revolving all around working with the United Manufacturing Hub itself, from installing it, to troubleshooting to utilizing it on the shop floor.

On these sited you will receive help on how to troubleshoot, manage and utilize the United Manufacturing Hub. If you have problem with how 3rd party applications are interacting with the United Manufacturing Hub, chances are that you will find troubleshooting guides in the other sections.

As with all other parts of learn.umh.app, please feel free to let us know if you feel like there is information missing.

If you are interested in getting more information about what the United Manufacturing Hub is or want to read up on the technical documentation, visit the documentation. If you are interested about the reasons behind the architecture or the technology and, visit the knowledge section.


How to use fgtrace

Tutorial on how to get started with fgtrace

How to prevent certificate errors in the included OPC-UA simulator

In order to avoid certificate errors in OPC-UA clients, it is necessary to add the following to the config file due to the OPC-UA protocol.

Using benthos with the United Manufacturing Hub

Learn how to use Benthos, a powerful stream processing tool, to transform data from an MQTT simulator into the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) datamodel and save it to the database

How to backup the database

Learn how to back up the database in the UMH stack using TimescaleDB. This tutorial is for non-local installations and covers the requirements and instructions for performing a backup, including installing pg_dump, finding the IP or DNS of your server, and executing the command for backup. Ensure your data can be recovered in case of catastrophic failure by following the steps outlined in this tutorial.

Deleting assets or whole locations

To delete a single asset and/or location in the United Manufacturing Hub, you should execute these SQL commands.

Our Data Model

Quick description of our data model

Installing the United Manufacturing Hub on a VM (for IT department)

This is a quick introduction into deploying the United Manufacturing Hub on a VM and is written for the IT department. It includes some background information.

What to do when weird MQTT messages appear?

This troubleshooting guide describes what can be done when strange MQTT messages appear.

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