Cloud Solutions in industrial plants

In today’s competitive manufacturing landscape, businesses that can leverage data to drive insights and decision-making have a clear advantage. Data-driven smart manufacturing is the use of data and analytics to improve all aspects of the manufacturing process, from product design and development to production and quality control.

As plant manager or head of production, how much do you know about your factory? Have you identified and located every last piece of information? Do you know the efficiency of each machine? How about the workshop? Of each business area and the plant as a whole?

There’s still quite a way to go in the industrial sector’s journey towards digitization. Many companies, especially the smallest ones, don’t have segregated IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) networks, instead, all of the equipment is connected to one single network which leads directly to the Internet. In others, generally the largest ones, the workshop’s network is separated from the office’s network by means of a firewall, making it possible to control communication between the two worlds in a very granular manner.