A machine can be accessed and controlled with the help of an interface device. The customizable interface device contains device elements that define features relating to the external representation and internal functionality of the interface device, as linked to one or more machines. An operator can use a configuration station to implement single or reoccurring queries that interact with the interface device and corresponding machines. In particular, the queries target the configuration of device elements in the interface device. The process can include temporarily unloading unused features from active memory and mirroring property changes initialized by a source. An emulator can assist in the configuration process by providing a preliminary software representation of the interface device hardware. A user can develop, test, and reconfigure functions on the emulator before loading the finalized platform to the interface device.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for managing an IoT device. The method includes: acquiring device information and logic information of the IoT device, wherein the logic information is intended to indicate a logical attribute of the IoT device; generating a tree topology based on the device information and the logic information of the IoT device, wherein the tree topology comprises at least two layers of asset nodes, leaf nodes of the at least two layers of asset nodes being device asset nodes, non-leaf nodes being the device asset nodes or logical asset nodes, the device asset node corresponding to the IoT device, and the logical asset node corresponding to the logical attribute of the IoT device; and acquiring an ordered tree topology by sorting asset nodes in a same hierarchy in the tree topology.

A system includes wireless access points operable to communicate with a communication network and electronic tracking devices that each include an electronic-ink display. The electronic tracking devices are operable to communicate wirelessly with the wireless access points. The system also includes manufacturing system operator computer systems operable to communicate with the communication network. The system further includes a server operable to execute instructions to update at least one entry in a manufacturing system database based on receiving an operation notification from one of the manufacturing system operator computer systems. The server can transmit a display update for the electronic-ink display of an identified electronic tracking device through at least one of the wireless access points based on determining that the operation notification includes a transition from a current manufacturing process step to a next manufacturing process step.

A production line management system that registers and manages distribution data for each of a plurality of production lines, and thus, manages work data in a unitary manner. The management system being constructed to manage production in a plurality of the production lines with a small amount of data and to simplify a system configuration. In particular, the distribution data is created by an identifier added to work data.

A system includes wireless access points operable to communicate with a communication network and electronic tracking devices that each include an electronic-ink display. The electronic tracking devices are operable to communicate wirelessly with the wireless access points. The system also includes manufacturing system operator computer systems operable to communicate with the communication network. The system further includes a server operable to execute instructions to update at least one entry in a manufacturing system database based on receiving an operation notification from one of the manufacturing system operator computer systems. The server can transmit a display update for the electronic-ink display of an identified electronic tracking device through at least one of the wireless access points based on determining that the operation notification includes a transition from a current manufacturing process step to a next manufacturing process step.

An industrial monitoring system is disclosed. In an embodiment it includes a device layer, a device driving layer, a data sharing layer, a data routing layer, a data scheduling layer, a service layer, and a presentation layer. The data sharing layer, the data routing layer, and the data scheduling layer are organized by using a non-relational database, or organized in a hybrid way by using the non-relational database and a relational database. The industrial monitoring system disclosed can implement processing such as real-time storage and sharing of a large amount of data, and data mining and retrieval.