R&W Tech: Web Dashboard for Centralized IoT Machinery Management

In exclusive collaboration with R&W Tech srl, we developed what we affectionately call "the conductor of welding machines": a system that transforms a network of isolated microcontrollers into an intelligent and coordinated ecosystem.

Imagine 50 precision laser welding machines, each excellent at their job, but completely unaware of what their sisters are doing. Zero coordination, scattered data, trial-and-error maintenance, and non-existent performance analysis. R&W Tech needed a central brain that would monitor each individual welding machine, make them communicate and coordinate without losing data granularity. Every single welding point tracked.

We created a centralized orchestration system that transforms a local network of microcontrollers into a true smart factory. Real-time monitoring (up to 1 point every 300ms), centralized configuration and backup management, total portability via virtual machine, OTA updates without stopping production, license system for security.

The heart of the system is a microservices architecture designed for industrial reliability: API Layer for business logic, Daemon coordinating the process, specialized Workers for each welding machine, Event Bus connecting all components. Adding a new welding machine? Insert the IP and the Daemon automatically spawns a dedicated Worker. Simple, elegant, and effective automatic discovery.

We distributed everything as a virtual machine (VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V) with everything preconfigured. Zero setup time, universal compatibility, simplified maintenance, snapshot-based backup.

Today R&W Tech no longer manages isolated welding machines, but orchestrates an intelligent production ecosystem. Every welding point is data, every data is information, every information is improvement.