Aircraft Maintenance Services
Secure acquisition and transfer of shopfloor data from production assets to Azure cloud in aircraft maintenance industry
Background & Business need
- Strategic decision to use Microsoft Azure as cloud platform and PTC Thingworx as IIoT platform.
- Initially, PTC ThingWorx deployed on-premise due to strict internal IT security policies. Later migration of the PTC platform to Azure Cloud.
Technical Requirements
- Retrieve data of 100s of PLCs and controllers mostly Siemens SIMATIC S7 and SINUMERIK 840D
- Strict security requirements, customer in need of a secure and robust solution to access shop-floor data
- Deployment of uaGate SI and uaGate 840D gateways.
- Securely collect data from the controllers and expose it to the cloud via an OPC UA server.
- Thingworx platform access data as an OPC UA client.
- Satisfy the stringent security requirements, competitors did not.
- Ease of use and deployment.
- Fast delivery of PoC
- Gateways supports migration of the IIoT platform to the cloud
