Parker Hannafin Corporation has developed an open, interoperable and scalable ecosystem of connected products and services to digitize machine assets at the component and motion and control system level. The Voice of the Machine® is a centralized strategy to ensure standardization across all Parker IoT-empowered products.
The Voice of the Machine® platform addresses challenges that have prevented operators from fully leveraging IoT to improve safety and prevent unplanned downtime and high maintenance costs across their industrial applications. Some of these challenges include legacy devices that are not IoT-enabled, an absence of component-level insights and competing communication protocols used by various suppliers.
Parker is using a center-led approach and has adopted a common set of IoT standards and best practices for use across all its operating groups and technologies. Every connected product uses the same repository of digital services with an exchange-based platform architecture, designed by software experts at Exosite. The Exosite IoT architecture makes it easy to deploy a diverse set of connected solutions leveraging that same set of digital services and to integrate Parker solutions with other partner platforms.
