Build a highly repeatable edge infrastructure with a centralised management layer.
Speed up deployment times with pre-configured edge devices.
Run custom Docker applications right at the source of your machine data.
Siemens Industrial Edge is an edge computing and orchestration platform built to standardise software management across your entire shop floor. It combines high-performance local data processing with cloud-like accessibility, giving you real-time insights right where your machine data is generated.
The platform uses a three-tiered architecture: Industrial Edge Devices operating at the field level, Industrial Edge Management for management at the factory level, and Industrial Edge Hub as a centralised repository in the cloud at a global scale. It's a complete infrastructure solution that allows you to securely deploy, configure, and maintain containerised edge applications at scale.
We recommend Siemens Industrial Edge for companies that want to scale their edge operations across multiple nodes. If you only have one machine to connect, manual configuration is fine. But from the moment you have multiple devices, doing everything manually becomes a headache. Because the platform is so structured, we can use it to build a repeatable architecture where new devices are provisioned centrally with a single click.
Of course, it’s a logical choice for companies whose factory is already anchored in the Siemens automation ecosystem. It fits onto your existing footprint, and because the edge software runs seamlessly on SIMATIC hardware, it eliminates the hardware validation delays that usually slow down IIoT projects.
Siemens has its own application marketplace and also supports deploying custom Docker applications directly onto the hardware. This allows us to give you the exact functionality you need for your Unified Namespace while keeping remote monitoring, device tracking, and strict network security centrally managed.
Want to standardise and orchestrate your edge computing without the overhead of manual configuration? Here’s why Siemens Industrial Edge works for enterprise deployments.
The platform organises your architecture into three distinct layers. At the shopfloor level, physical Edge Devices handle the high-performance data processing close to your machines. Above that sits the Industrial Edge Management layer, giving your factory teams a single on-premises interface to coordinate those devices and track system metrics. Finally, everything connects back to a global cloud Hub, which acts as a central repository for your software applications.
If there is one thing we’ve learned, it is that testing and validating uncertified industrial hardware can stall an IIoT rollout for months. By combining the Industrial Edge platform with Siemens hardware, you eliminate that validation bottleneck completely. It’s built natively for the Simatic range (standard IPCs, virtualised systems, and SIMATIC controllers), which gives you guaranteed compatibility from day one.
The devices arrive pre-configured with a secure runtime environment, so you can instantly deploy them into production frameworks that fully comply with strict network standards like IEC 62443-4-2.
Siemens Industrial Edge features an open Docker backbone that gives you full control over your software architecture. You can choose to download ready-made connectivity and analytics tools directly from the Siemens Marketplace, or deploy your own custom-built Docker images directly to the field. This makes it simple to run local logic, buffer transactional data, or handle complex protocol translation right on the factory floor.
If you want to test the platform before committing to physical hardware, Siemens provides a sandbox environment called the Industrial Edge Playground. This environment lets you explore how the management infrastructure, edge devices, and applications work together.
The playground gives you one week of availability with up to 8 hours of active time to fully explore and evaluate the platform. Once you have put the infrastructure through its paces and you are ready to scale it across your actual production lines, we’ll gladly assist with the deployment and configuration of both software and hardware.
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Siemens has a complete developer ecosystem with excellent technical resources to help you outline your edge strategy:
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