Get on the fast track to
smart manufacturing

For more than a decade, the world has been talking about the next industrial revolution – but industry representatives feel anything but revolutionary: Industrial IoT does not get beyond the PoC phase, your data is still slumbering in silos, topics like predictive maintenance remain mostly buzzwords without concrete implementation.

The reasons for this are understandable: Decision-makers want modernization, but you can’t ask them to throw their economic sense overboard. On existing shopfloors, there are often numerous generations of machines in operation at the same time.

Machines lack state-of-the-art sensor technology, retrofit solutions are often unsatisfactory and neglect the data component. Even in greenfield projects, missing APIs and incompatible protocols continue to hamper the smart use of data.

But is that why the future must come bit by bit? Not at all! In fact, there is a faster way to smart manufacturing!
Install anywhere

No matter if you use local servers, your PC, a Raspberry Pi or the cloud: XENTARA follows your data streams and your infrastructure. There´s no need for additional expensive hardware.

Connect anything

XENTARA integrates all common protocols, fieldbuses and PLCs. This makes industrial automation brownfield-compatible and avoids expensive retrofitting investments.

“One-Stop-Shop”

XENTARA can be enhanced in every imaginable direction through skills and add-ons from our skill store – for example, by adding new protocols or machine learning scenarios.

Six Easy Steps towards your Modern Edge Architecture

Start your Xentara project and specify system cycle time in µs
Xentara will maintain real-time

1

Connect your I/O
(local, remote, via field bus)

2

Build or Import your Control Logic
and Design your HMI

3

Connect Analytics & Train your AI / ML

4

Add additional value and converge with IT or Cloud

5

Ship your system on any hardware
and software platform

6

Pick your entry point!

There is no single path to smart production. Depending on their individual requirements or production environment, manufacurers seek different approaches and use cases to use their data. XENTARA lays the foundation for realizing scenarios that generate a particularly high benefit and contribute to the big picture – the transformation of your industry.

Smart Connectivity Layer

1

Data Recording
Smart Sensors & Sensor Network
Smart Actuators
Smart Tools & Operator Assistance
M2M Communication

Data to Information Layer

2

Data Processing

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the a way of measuring manufacturing productivity, often described as the gold standard for productivity improvement. It is expressed most simply as a percentage showing how much of the time spent on production actually results in good products. So a factory that works with no interruptions, at fastest speed, and does not produce faulty products, has an OEE rating of 100%:

  • 100% Quality (no bad parts produced)

  • 100% Availability (no interruptions or downtime)

  • 100% Performance (all processes running at the highest speed possible)

By monitoring your production data through Xentara, you can easily set up OEE calculations and see your OEE score in realtime!

Click here to read more.

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is the a way of measuring manufacturing productivity, often described as the gold standard for productivity improvement. It is expressed most simply as a percentage showing how much of the time spent on production actually results in good products. So a factory that works with no interruptions, at fastest speed, and does not produce faulty products, has an OEE rating of 100%:

  • 100% Quality (no bad parts produced)

  • 100% Availability (no interruptions or downtime)

  • 100% Performance (all processes running at the highest speed possible)

By monitoring your production data through Xentara, you can easily set up OEE calculations and see your OEE score in realtime!

Click here to read more.

OEE Monitoring
Resource & Consumption Monitoring
Remote Maintenance & Assistance Systems
Remote Visualization & HMI

Smart Machine Layer

3

Machine Learning
enhanced Soft-PLC
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Resource Optimization
Predictive Maintenance
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Digital Twin Enhancement

Smart Automation Layer

4

Self-optimizing Machine
Confluent AI
Plug and Outcome Integration & Machine Configuration
Preemptive Maintenance

Smart Factory Layer

5

Self-configure for resilience
self-adjust for variation
self-optimize for disturbance
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Integrated Simulation & Synthesis

Smart Industry Convergence Layer

6

Self-enhancing Supply Chain
Collaborative Diagnostics, Modeling and Decision Making
Cloud-less edge intelligence

Bring machine learning right onto your shop floor. Without the hassle to connect to the cloud!

Legacy Integration

An IIoT platform that speaks every machines' language!

Low Code / No Code Shop Floor Integration

Human readable. Human understandable.
No more cryptic codes!

Realtime machine communication

Instant availability of your production data

Unifying Industrial IoT Platform

Install skills just as you would on your smart phone!

Preemptive process control

Correct issues before they actually happen!

Bring machine learning right onto your shop floor. Without the hassle to connect to the cloud!

An IIoT platform that speaks every machines’ language!

Human readable. Human understandable.
No more cryptic codes!

Instant availability of your production data

Install skills just as you would on your smart phone!

Correct issues before they actually happen!

More Features of the Plattform

XENTARA is an integrated software-based platform that brings together all dimensions of smart production.
Use all the possibilities of smart manufacturing and “liquify” the data of the entire shopfloor.

CUSTOM AI

Use AI and machine learning wherever your data is processed. At the edge, on your own server or in the cloud. This enables shop floor operators to achieve better value for less investment.

OPEN INTERFACE

XENTARA connects to a wide-range of fieldbuses and protocols. Any existing ERP, MES, CAQ or BI solution can be integrated.

REALLY REAL-TIME:

Your data is not available in an hour or the next day but: immediately and at the same moment. This is how you create the prerequisite for immediate and further usage scenarios from your valuable data.

SKILL STORE

XENTARA can be enhanced in every imaginable direction through skills and add-ons from our skill store – for example, by adding new protocols or machine learning scenarios. This way we meet every current and future use case

FAST

XENTARA provides extremely high performance and is optimized to integrate a multitude of different data sources and consumers.
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SAFE AND SECURE

XENTARA is compatible with cutting-edge industry encription standards to keep your data secure. Package integrity control and retention systems ensure safe and stable communication.
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UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE

XENTARA distributed semantic model provides a unified namespace for all local and remote data points. This enables engineers to achieve a unified shop floor architecture and swift configuration possibilites.

COST-EFFICIENT ENABLEMENT

Enable brownfield equipment to become “smart” with barely any interruptions. The future doesn´t have to cost a fortune.

To learn more, go to the Xentara Information and Data Sheet

Connect anything

Easy Installation

Xentara is the “missing piece” of your smart factory. And to bring it´s benefits to every manufacturing facility, we have made sure that the roll-out on site is particularly easy.
This means that there are only a few steps into the future of production. Run Xentara on any compatible hardware and platform such as 32 or 64 bit arm and x86 systems on debian or ubuntu and just install using apt!

About us

You think that it’s hard to combine experience with young talent? Think again and meet our team of manufacturing enthusiasts, embedded specialists, automation-ambassadors and knowledge-hungry IT experts.

Team Xentara at Kloster Seeon

Management

Our management team looks back to decade-long individual careers in consulting, supply chain management, manufacturing improvement and embedded computing. Xentara is the manifestation of our combined desire to manage industrial production the smart way.

Philipp Kirschenhofer (Managing Director)

Philipp Kirschenhofer (Managing Director)

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Michael Schwarz (Managing Director)

Michael Schwarz (Managing Director​)

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Robert Schachner (Chief Technology Officer)

Robert Schachner (Chief Technology Officer)

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer