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This blog explores how the rise of micro cloud apps is reshaping the industrial software landscape—especially for small and mid-sized companies—by comparing it to the evolution of mobile gaming. It contrasts traditional SCADA platforms with emerging single-use cloud apps, highlighting trends in time-to-value, cloud adoption, and accessibility, and shares how Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions is adapting to serve this expanding market segment.

Industrial organizations can achieve a connectivity solution that gives them the ability for all their disparate devices, for all their disparate hardware from all the different vendors to talk, thus establishing interoperability and reliable communication. This connectivity is achievable with one leading solution, the Takebishi DeviceXPlorer OPC Server. This software is a OPC server software suite that provides connectivity with control devices in discrete manufacturing, process building automation, and control and operations environments and provides both the import of tag definitions and the related expressions in an ISA-95 hierarchical format and also combines this technology with another breakthrough in the market, the standardization of industrial names for data, thus making it a futureproofed technology. The Takebishi DeviceXPlorer OPC Server is integrated into the Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64 software suite and IoTWorX environment and is also available separately. Additionally, it allows direct communication between GENESIS software, and other applications, with the actual physical equipment and machinery on your production floor, providing you with the ability to monitor and control your facilities, factories, and processes.

Keeping up with and understanding the technology and related terminology of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 (the fourth Industrial Revolution) might be daunting. However, if you're in industrial manufacturing or industrial processing, it’s important to know the basics and benefits of these. What follows is an explanation about the technical innovations that enable digital transformation in the context of Industry 4.0 and how all of these relate to industrial manufacturing and industrial processes.

Every business has been forced to rethink how it conducts its operations, and office workers all over the world traded their cubicles for tables or desks in spare rooms and invested in home office upgrades to mirror their in-office setup. The GENESIS solutions ensure that the safety needs of both building management and occupants are  being met. 

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District approached Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions in search of a new SCADA system—one that could not only modernize their legacy platform but also offer the flexibility and scalability to meet their growing operational needs and optimize performance.

The recently released GENESIS Suite is packed with major enhancements across our entire portfolio, including our GENESIS64™ visualization and SCADA system, Hyper Historian™ rapid data historian, AnalytiX® data analysis, MobileHMI™ apps, and IoTWorX™ edge to cloud connectivity solutions. 

Mitsubishi Electric, including Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions, along with CLPA and the e-F@ctory Alliance, are proactively building the foundation to provide end users with a total integrated solution for digital transformation. Over the years, I’ve encountered many different types of automation requirements from end users, leading me to ask, “What do end users really want automation to do for them?”

In our industry, two of the most used acronyms are HMI and SCADA. In this post, we define Human Machine Interface and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition and explain how the two components not only fit into our industrial automation projects but also improve our business and reduce our operating costs.