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IoT & connected industry

Know what's happening on the shop floor, without waiting for the next day's report.

Sensors, connected machines, OT networks, industrial vision and data reporting. To decide based on figures, not impressions.

Production line with vision camera and network cabinet

What we hear in a first meeting

  • “We calculate OEE by hand, at the end of the week.”
  • “The machines are on the same network as accounting.”
  • “We find out about breakdowns when the line stops.”

What we do, in practice

01

Sensors and acquisition

Temperature, vibration, energy, counting, on new or old machines.

02

Connected machines

Retrieving PLC data via OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT.

03

OT networks

IT/OT segmentation, secure remote access for equipment manufacturers.

04

Industrial vision

Appearance inspection, code reading, counting.

05

Supervision and dashboards

Downtime, cycle times, alerts, viewed on the shop floor as well as in the office.

Use cases

Situations we know how to handle

Real-time production tracking

Automatic counting and downtime causes entered by the operator, OEE calculated continuously.

Separation of IT and OT networks

Machines isolated, controlled remote access, without stopping production.

Condition-based maintenance

Vibration sensors on critical motors, alert before failure.

Technologies and ecosystem

  • OPC UA
  • MQTT
  • Modbus TCP
  • Node-RED
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Industrial gateways
  • Industrial cameras

Indicative list. No official partnership is implied.

Way of working

Pilot
One machine or one line to validate the value before extending.
Rollout
Extension to the site, team training.
Operation
Supervision and maintenance of the platform.

Frequently asked questions

See also:

Our machines are old, is this possible?

Often, yes: via external sensors when the PLC doesn't allow reading the data.

Does the data stay with us?

Hosting is chosen together: on-premises, private cloud or mixed.

Start with one machine

A short pilot to see what the data teaches you.

Describe your situation

No specification document needed. A few lines are enough for us to know whether we can help.

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