Machine signals and connectors
This page gives you an overview of what machine signals RS Production can handle and how you can connect them to the system.
This is feature is included in
RS Production Energy
Machine signals
Machine signals are used to automatically capture production events. The pages linked at the bottom of this page explains more about how RS Production handle machine signals.
HOW TO Connect machine signals
Connectors
RS Production offers several different ways to capture machine signals and production events.
They can be combined to create the machine data integration that fits your machines and infrastructure the best.
RS IoT
RS IoT is RS Productions standard hardware for capturing of machine signals.
TECH DOC RS IoT - Technical Data
RS Blackbox (no longer sold)
RS Productions legacy hardware for capturing of machine signals.
TECH DOC RS Blackbox (no longer sold)
OPC
RS Production’s Machine Data Interface opens up for OPC data integration.
HOW TO Connect machine signals OPC
TECH DOC OPC data integration
Webservice API
RS Production has a HTTP API that exposes the RS Production “in memory database”.
The API calls are made over HTTP with standard Get/Put and Post methods, the data can be serialized in either XML or JSON format
TECH DOC Machine data Webservice API
Manual data capture
In some processes, manual data capture is the best way to do it. RS Production offers easy ways for operators to capture most types of production events.