====== Solutions and tools: engineering wedges, delivered as a service ======

AEI Corporation builds a small set of OPC UA and TSN tools — an information-model
builder, a time-aware-shaper frame analyser, and a TSN switch configurator. They
are not shrink-wrapped products. They are engineering wedges: things we built to
do our own delivery work faster and more repeatably, and that we run inside a
project or walk through in a technical session. The deliverable is the
engineering outcome; the tool is how we get there.

===== Why tools, if the deliverable is a service? =====

Because the hard parts of an OPC UA or TSN project recur, and a tool captures the
recurring part so each engagement starts further along. An information model gets
built the same way every time; a time-aware schedule always has to be verified
against real frames; a TSN switch always has to be configured over NETCONF. We
built for those recurring steps rather than re-solving them by hand each project.
They sit here as capabilities rather than in a shop for the same reason:
inventory for delivery, not licences to sell.

===== The tools =====

  * [[solutions:info-modeller|Info Modeller]] — build and edit OPC UA information models (NodeSet2), starting from base and companion specifications.
  * [[solutions:qbv-analyser|Qbv Analyser]] — a live frame-distribution view that shows whether an 802.1Qbv time-aware schedule is actually placing frames where it was configured to.
  * [[solutions:cuc-configurator|CUC / Qbv Configurator]] — a wizard that emits 802.1Q gate/preemption configuration as YANG and pushes it to a TSN switch over NETCONF.
  * [[solutions:test-rack|OPC UA over TSN test rack]] — the lab bench we validate OPC-UA-over-TSN behaviour on.

An OPC UA nodeset validator and an MES bridge / dashboard are in preparation and
will appear here as they are ready to show.

===== Related =====

  * [[technology:industry40:opcua:start|OPC UA]]
  * [[technology:industrial-ethernet:tsn:start|Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)]]
  * [[https://aeicor.com/services/opc-ua-dds/|OPC UA and DDS engineering]]
  * [[https://aeicor.com/services/real-time-ethernet/|Real-time Ethernet engineering]]