Micro Data Center is positioned between the manufacturing floor and the enterprise data center. Micro Data Center can act as a stand-alone system that runs manufacturing applications such as:

• Process and event monitoring, process historian, production tracking and overall equipment efficiency (OEE) reporting.
• Control network, outer loop control, recipe download.
• Quality control, material handling, maintenance, lot tracing, and asset management.
• ERP integration (scheduling, reporting, material consumption, etc.).
• Taking the form of a networking hub that has no servers, existing primarily to tie cabling and switches together.