Interoperability initiative for edge computing devices
This company is the newest member of the Linux Foundation’s Margo Initiative (margo.org), a collaborative open-standards project designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments. Process manufacturers face challenges at the edge due to multi-vendor and multi-technology devices, apps and orchestration environments that do not easily integrate. The Margo Initiative addresses these challenges through the creation of practical reference implementation, open standards and testing toolkits. This approach will help remove obstacles and simplify the process of building, deploying, scaling and operating complex, multi-vendor industrial-edge environments. Margo is supported by some of the largest automation providers globally. This company joins Margo as a steering member, along with industry peers, to develop open and secure edge interoperability standards for industrial automation ecosystems. The Margo project represents a significant industry collaboration to define mechanisms for interoperable orchestration of edge applications, workloads and devices. — Emerson, St. Louis, Mo.