My name is Pete Hartnett. I’ve been a product manager at Tulip for the past 18 months, where I work with customers and software developers to create products that meet their needs.
Before joining Tulip, I was a manufacturing engineer at a fairly sizable Tulip customer (see @Peter.Hartnett for the boneheaded questions I was asked years ago). Our use case was primarily in the area of machine monitoring, but I ended up being exposed to a vast majority of the product during my time there. This experience gave me a unique perspective on the value that Tulip brings to customers and the opportunities for innovation in the manufacturing industry.
Outside of work, I’m a huge nerd for all things related to technology and automation. My apartment has its own unified namespace for controlling all my home automation. Recently, I worked on a clothing tracking application with Tulip, where I built a Tulip app to log all of my outfits (with the help of some iron-on barcodes) so I could better understand the most efficient ways to clear my closet.
As a product manager, I’m passionate about creating user-friendly and efficient products that solve real problems for customers. I believe that collaboration and communication are essential to achieving this goal, so I’m excited to join this forum and connect with other like-minded professionals.
Please don’t be afraid to reach our if there is anything I can do to help you on your Tulip journey. I’ve been there!
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My apartment has its own unified namespace for controlling all my home automation
[/quote] Hahaha, with MQTT as main protocol?
Recently, I’m creating a sketch program of ESP32-based micro controller called “M5StickC Plus”. My program can send data to Tulip via Tulip API when a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor detect one production of some product.
It can show real time distance from a web browser like a pic below.
What Kind of ESP32-based micro controller do you recommend to use in a factory? We have to think a lot of things such as stability, durablility, easy maintenance, long battery and easy operations.
There is one more thing to ask. The number of part count can be saved in a machine activity but I don’t know how to save it to a variable or a table record in an app. Is there any tips? I would like to exract part count of a day.
No specific hardware recommendations from me, I usually go with these boards from Mouser because they’re super cost-effective, available, and quality, but I haven’t done any super hard testing.
To extract this data from the machine activity table I would highly recommend embedding an analytic within your app that does this calculation:
Thanks for the info. ESP32 series are cost effective and easy to buy from anywhere.
As for part counts, we have some situations to input part counts a day to other system like ERP. I don’t know how to extract part counts from machine activity and pass it from an app.
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