Building a Greenfield Smart Factory Powered by Open Source in 2023

Learn how to build a sustainable smart factory from scratch using open-source technologies in this EclipseCon 2023 conference presentation. Discover how Deloitte consultants combine platform engineering and XOps principles to create an efficient manufacturing ecosystem that optimizes resources and minimizes environmental impact. Explore the implementation of key foundational pillars including sustainability, scalability, security, event-driven architecture, and unified namespace across both discrete and process manufacturing. Follow a detailed technical journey through integrating powerful open-source frameworks like Apache Kafka for event streaming, Eclipse Mosquitto for MQTT brokering, Arduino Opta for automation hardware, Hawkbit for device management, Eclipse Kura for edge computing, Grafana for observability, TimescaleDB for data storage, NodeRED for development, OpenZiti for VPN, Kubernetes for container management, and security solutions like Trivy and OpenEDR. Gain practical insights and actionable steps for implementing a reference model that can be customized for specific smart factory requirements while leveraging community-backed technologies to achieve manufacturing interoperability and accelerated development.