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
 

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
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Softing Inc.

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