Industrial IoT Glossary

The most important terms in digitization and Industry 4.0

Our continuously growing Industrial IoT glossary explains relevant special terms and technical expressions in the topics Industrial IoT, Digitalization and Smart Factory.
Disclaimer: The definitions in the glossary are provided solely to help users of this website understand the terms Cybus uses to describe its products and services.

A

Ansible

Automation pyramid

B

(MQTT) Broker

C

Cyber-Physical System

Clustering

D

Data architecture

Data Hub

Data infrastructure

Data layer

DataOps

Digital Twin

E

Edge

Edge Computing

EnPI

ERP

Event-driven architecture

F

Factory Data Hub

I

Industrial IoT

Industrial IoT Platform

Infrastructure as Code

K

Kubernetes

M

MES

MLOps

MQTT

N

Near Real-time data

O

On-Premises

OPC UA

S

Smart Factory

Smart production

U

Unified Namespace

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