Coordinating machines and their sensor data across wide expanses enables huge benefits for manufacturers. But connecting the last mile from IT systems to the production floor presents a serious challenge:

• Machine control systems aren't fluent in modern IT data formats
• Industrial software is arcane, expensive, and often Windows-dependent
• Embedded machine interfaces can be inarticulate, slow, and low-level

Yikes. Surely by now there should be a better way.

machineAPI is a drop-in solution to the communication breakdown.

Cloud services or onsite IT infrastructure can effortlessly tap in because machineAPI is fluent in HTTP, Websockets, and JSON, like any other API or microservice.

To machines and PLC technicians, machineAPI acts like a familiar remote IO device: via Ethernet/IP, ProfiNet, 24V digital, or 10V analog signal. There's nothing new to learn, so integration and startup is painless.

Yes, this easy:

machineAPI on Github has documentation, easy to follow examples, and test rigs for running machineAPI on your development PC. Try it out and see for yourself.

When you're ready to run in production, the machineAPI bridge is easy to order online, no "call for quote" required.