Supplier of Air Filtering and Thermal Management Components
Centralized Secure Data Integration and Information Model Management for OPC UA and SAP Business Suite
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
- dataFEED OPC Suite to acquire data from PLCs
- Secure Integration Server (SIS) for data aggregation and security
- 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
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