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May 27, 2026
UMH Delivers 426% ROI According to New Total Economic Impact Study
Manufacturers have always asked: whats the ROI on UNS? UMH commissioned a study to find out independently. The answer: 426% ROI over three years, with payback in under six months.
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Community
February 15, 2023
1.1 Software development
To develop software in the modern world, you need not only to work with a single programming language, but also understand everything around it.
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Founders
February 14, 2023
Flatcar as the operating system of the Industrial IoT
Discover why we chose Flatcar as the operating system for the Industrial IoT. We want to guide you through our thought process - from our requirements to selecting the operating system.
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Founders
January 17, 2023
Comparing MQTT Brokers for the Industrial IoT
Are you looking for the best MQTT broker for your IoT or IIoT project? In this technical comparison, we evaluate four popular options: Eclipse Mosquitto, VerneMQ, EMQx, and HiveMQ. We consider factors such as reliability, scalability, and maintainability to help you make an informed decision.
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Community
December 27, 2022
Open-Source Software's - How do they make money?
The United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) is a company that is dedicated to putting the most powerful IT and OT tools into the hands of engineers. Our mission is to make these tools freely available to users through open-source technology, with the goal of enabling every factory in the world to run on open-source software. But what exactly is open-source software? Simply put, it is software that is publicly accessible and allows users to inspect, modify, and enhance the source code. This is in contras
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Community
October 5, 2022
The United Manufacturing Hub as Open-Source Historian
We are happy to announce the closed beta version of the Historian functionality for the United Manufacturing Hub! It meets the requirements of an OT engineer, but is still maintainable by the IT department.
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Community
September 22, 2022
Announcing Tulip partnership
Tulip and the United Manufacturing Hub have teamed up to bring frontline operations to Europe!
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Community
August 29, 2022
Interview: Building Scalable and Secure IIoT Solutions Using Open Source
Our CTO, Jeremy Theocharis, talks in the "The Fourth Generation Podcast" about challenges in IT / OT integration, criteria for picking the core technologies for the UMH, Unified Namespace, OPC-UA and much more.
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Community
August 26, 2022
Industry 4.0 - Difficulties with adoption
In the manufacturing industry today, there is a lot of talk about Industry 4.0 and the advantages of it. Our previous blogpost – Why Industry 4.0 is crucial today – goes into this more in detail. In this article, we take a look at why some companies still struggle with digitization despite the clear advantages it brings. The awareness of Industry 4.0 and the advantages that it brings has improved over the years. In a study done by BDO in 2019 (pre-COVID) in the UK, 46% of manufacturing firms sa
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Community
August 24, 2022
Why Industry 4.0 is crucial today
We are encountering the term Industry 4.0 more and more often these days. The concept behind it ensures that we as humans are connected to the systems we work with. But what exactly is Industry 4.0? And why is it crucial to adapt to this new, digitized environment? Let’s dive deeper into these questions. The status quo over time First, let’s have a quick look at the stages of development of industry in general over the past decades and centuries. Industry 1.0: Around 1800, there are first re
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