Auotmation: Designing a Scalable MTConnect Data Architecture

Chicago, Illinois - MTConnect has opened up an unprecedented amount of data from the shopfloor data, and managing and making sense of this data requires a rethink of the traditional software architectures seen in the shopfloor. This talk will discuss the design and development of a scalable MTConnect data architecture. The talk will introduce the key elements of the architecture, including data ingress, storage, analytics and visualization, and will present an open-source technology stack for scaling MTConnect-based analytics. The talk will also discuss lessons learnt from other domains including finance, entertainment, and e-commerce.

About the speaker

William Sobel has over 20 years of industry experience in successful startups managing the development of innovative application infrastructure software products. In recent years, as the principal author and architect of the MTConnect Standard, Mr. Sobel has led the industry toward significant advances in collection and analysis of machine data. Prior to System Insights, Mr. Sobel was VP/Chief Architect at MSCI-Barra, specializing in financial risk management software for some of the largest asset management companies in the world. Mr. Sobel led a team to architect and build their hosted risk management software as a service (SaaS) platform. In 1995, Mr. Sobel co-founded Redpoint Software, a leading capital markets enterprise risk management software company. At Redpoint, Mr. Sobel architected and built a real-time distributed database caching infrastructure to support fault tolerant parallelized analytics for financial risk management and trading systems.