Industrial

Supplier of Air Filtering and Thermal Management Components

Centralized Secure Data Integration and Information Model Management for OPC UA and SAP Business Suite

 

Situation

Background

  • International industrial group that produces and distributes liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and thermal management components
  • Operates 24 production plants worldwide with the SAP Business Suite as ERP and MES

Business need

  • Production data from shopfloor devices needs to be aggregated, organized and fed into the SAP Business Suite. Reproduceable process for all sites
  • Leverage SAP platform for IIoT applications at a later stage

Technical Requirements

  • Consolidated data from all production assets should be securely exposed over a single OPC UA server in each site
  • 100s of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), mostly Siemens and Rockwell on plant
  • Strong technical requirement to provide address space filtering and control access capabilities for efficient and secure integration with OPC UA Client applications
Centralized Secure Data Integration and Information Model Management for OPC UA and SAP Business Suite
 

Solution

 

Benefits

  • Firewall, address space filtering, access control and semantic extraction capabilities
  • Lean and centralized OPC UA architecture
  • Robust, secure and versatile OPC stack
  • PoC to start up fast and reduce risk
  • Technical consulting for architecture and after sales support