Some say: ‘Engineers love containers in production…’, but have you ever spoken to a mechanical engineer from the gearbox production department about it? - They will probably tell you that storage and dispatch come afterwards so no need for containers in production!
The drives, gearboxes and system solutions of SEW Eurodrive are established in production lines of many manufactures worldwide.
Many of our customers, and in some cases ourselves, still rely on PLCs that relate to exactly one application in the system.
The reliability, maintainability and cyber security of these systems is a constant concern for us and our customers, so we have set ourselves the goal of taking factory automation to the next level.
In this presentation, I will explain how we at SEW use containers for our own applications.
Where we can successfully replace PLCs.
How existing systems can be integrated into a digital process twin thanks to Kubernetes.
How mechanical engineering and IT ultimately become friends.
And finally, why computer games are important. Yes, you got that right, ‘computer games’!