Christopher Anhalt

Microservice-Oriented Architecture – Bridging Software and Customer Benefits

The episode is about the importance of integration and scalability of IoT solutions in various industries, especially in the manufacturing and automotive industries. A key focus is on the need to avoid getting entangled in an ecosystem, but rather to maintain independence and flexibility in choosing technology providers and solutions. WAGO partners Portainer, Actemium and Softing highlighted how collaborations help to develop comprehensive and specialized solutions for specific industry requirements in order to implement flexible and scalable solutions that enable efficient production control and cost reduction: Tobias Mühlnikel talks about his work at Portainer, a platform for the management of software containers, which is becoming increasingly important in automation technology. He emphasizes the importance of holistic, dynamic solutions and highlights how Portainer helps in accessing and making data available from various sources. Christopher Anhalt talks about industrial communication and explains how Softing is helping to make data from controllers, devices, sensors and actuators available to the IT world by developing and marketing standard products for IT/OT integration. Jürgen from Actemium, part of the VINCI Group, explains how his company offers innovative industrial solutions for electrical engineering, measurement and control technology and automation technology. Actemium sees itself as a strategic partner for customers in areas such as energy technology, automation and digitalization in production. The three guests discuss use cases in the areas of smart manufacturing, device management and administration, data integration in the automotive sector and container-based software development. For example, it is about acquiring data from machines using products such as those from Softing, which are supplied as containers. These can run on hardware such as WAGO’s and then be transferred to the cloud or to MES/SCADA systems. The management of these software components to keep them up to date and the initial roll-out is a central aspect of this use case. The 116th IoT Use Case podcast episode highlights the importance of strong partnerships and networks in the IoT industry using WAGO as an example.