Emerson has joined the Linux Foundation’s Margo, a new open-standard initiative designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.
According to Emerson, as process and discrete manufacturers implement enhanced digitalization, they encounter challenges at the edge due to multi-vendor and multi-technology devices, apps and orchestration environments that do not easily integrate. The Margo initiative is addressing these challenges through the creation of practical reference implementation, open standards and testing toolkits. The company contends this approach will help remove obstacles and simplify the process of building, deploying, scaling and operating multi-vendor industrial edge environments, helping manufacturers of all sizes build new and better digital operations or modernize existing ones.
“The modern OT (operations technology) edge is the backbone of our next-generation automation architecture, enabling the availability of data and computing closest to where it is needed,” said Peter Zornio, Emerson's chief technology officer. “Successful implementation will require open edge standards that will enable scalable, simplified and seamless interoperability among applications, edge devices and orchestration software—no matter the vendor technology. That’s why Emerson is pleased to join the Margo initiative to help create a unified and cohesive edge management ecosystem. Our collective progress will make it easier, faster and less costly for our customers to develop digital transformation programs that realize the full potential of AI, machine learning and analytics at the edge.”
Emerson added that the Margo initiative complements the company’s Boundless Automation vision for a next-generation, modern automation architecture designed to break down data silos and enable computing power where it is best suited—in the field, edge or cloud.
Learn more about Margo in this article from Automation World.
