Are you still wrestling legacy PLCs while leadership demands AI dashboards?

If raw machine data is locked in mystery registers and every asset speaks a different protocol, your Unified Namespace will never get off the whiteboard. Integrators quote eye‑watering fees, your team spins its wheels, and momentum dies.

It’s not a technology problem—it’s a playbook problem.

The Edge Connectivity → UNS Workshop

 

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Live & online · June 17‑19, 2025 · 2‑4 hrs per day

Three hands‑on sessions that show you how to pull clean, contextualised data off any asset... from a 90s‑era Modbus or brand‑new PLC with OPC UA onboard, and stream it straight into a scalable UNS.

In this Hands On Edge to UNS Workshop we cover

Day 1 – Connectivity

Topics covered

  • Current state of industrial connectivity

  • Common approaches and the compromises they require

  • Three starting points:

    1. No connectivity

    2. Legacy connectivity

    3. Modern connectivity

  • How to solve connectivity problems across all three states

Hands‑on practice

  • Identify a device (or simulated device) to work with

  • Assess its communication capabilities

  • Locate the vendor reference for reading a data point

  • Connect and retrieve live data from the device

Day 2 – Collecting the Data – Legacy Technology

Topics covered

  • Why most equipment data is siloed, unstandardized, and poorly structured

  • Why standardization matters for scalability and transformation success

  • Managing homogeneous vs. heterogeneous data environments

  • Identifying meaningful data across multiple legacy sources

Hands‑on practice

  • Analyse and inventory data available from legacy systems

  • Connect and collect selected data into your preferred system

  • Apply a methodical approach to validate and organise the collected data

Day 3 – Connect & Collect with Modern Technology

Topics covered

  • The “future‑ready” state: leveraging modern connectivity technologies

  • Benefits of modern tech at the equipment level

  • How modern approaches flatten the tech stack and accelerate digital transformation

  • Enabling scalable, structured, and interoperable data environments

Hands‑on practice

  • Simulate integration with a modern controller

  • Create structured data sets using modern connectivity protocols

  • Map and organise data for high‑scale UNS applications

Live sessions run 2–4 hours each day and include a pre‑built VM, trial licences, recordings, and a repeatable checklist you can hand your team on Monday.

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Meet your Instructor

Trent Christopher, Founder @ 4.0 Hero
21‑year controls veteran, Ignition 8 Gold, OPC UA Practitioner, and UNS evangelist who has rescued data from hundreds of brownfield lines.

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Choose your seat

Tier What’s included Price
- Early‑Bird
(until May 27)		 Live workshop · recordings · lab VM ·
FREE 3‑Day UNS replay for the first 100 seats		 $500
- Standard Same as Early‑Bird $750
- Mastermind Members* All of the above · seat held until May 31 $0

Pay once, own it for life—recordings and lab files are yours forever.

* If you are a member of our mastermind you get access to this workshop for free.

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