Hello ,
Thanks for your answer, glad to see industrial engineering oriented topics like yours here. The possibilities are endless when reading and getting into unreal engine.
I see epic committing to HMI development for the automotive market so will be interesting to follow this. A good plugin seems indeed required to fuel the blueprint animations.
Concerning the availability of a good plugin, I saw this webinar that uses temperature data from a IOT Device.
Webinar: Visualizing Data in Digital Twins with Unreal Engine
They did provide a plugin which could import data only for the 5.0 version of the engine. I did see the GitHub repository for this being updated some days ago:
Unreal Engine and Azure Digital Twins integration demo
To integrate full PLC parameters would beautiful, experimenting with unreal engine to develop digital twins of machines and ultimately factories. 