IT/OT integration: your plant and your business systems speak the same language.
We connect PLCs, SCADA, and machines to your information systems — MES, ERP, cloud, analytics. Production data reaches the people who decide, in real time and securely: one source of truth from the shop floor to the ERP.
Field data is only worth something when it reaches the people who decide.
Every plant already produces an enormous amount of data: machine states, piece counters, alarms, energy consumption, recipes. But as long as it stays locked in the PLC or on hand-filled sheets, the company decides from memory. IT/OT integration turns it into continuous, reliable, shared information.
Decisions on real numbers
OEE, downtime, scrap, and consumption read directly from the field — not reconstructed at the end of the shift. The plant director sees the same truth as the line operator, updated in real time, with no double data entry.
NIS2 pushes convergence
The NIS2 directive requires you to govern the production network too: asset inventory, segmentation, controlled flows. A well-designed IT/OT integration puts order exactly there — data gets through, threats don't.
Industry 4.0 / 5.0 requires it
Interconnecting assets with factory systems is the technical requirement behind the 4.0 incentives and Italy's 2026 hyper-depreciation. Integrating properly today also means being able to measure the required energy savings tomorrow.
Six layers of work, one architecture.
From the field protocol to data analysis: we design integration as a single system, not a collection of connectors. Every layer is built to be maintainable and to scale across lines and plants.
Field connectivity
We connect PLCs and machines to IT systems via OPC UA, S7, Profinet, Modbus, and MQTT. Including heterogeneous, multi-brand plants — Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, legacy machines with no native interface — with dedicated gateways where needed.
MES and ERP integration
Production orders, declarations, confirmations, recipes, and master data synchronized across field, MES, and business systems — SAP and other ERPs. No more double entry or parallel spreadsheets: data is born once, on the line.
Historization and analytics
We historize process data on industrial historians and databases: trends, KPIs, OEE, batch reports, downtime analysis. It's also the foundation for predictive maintenance and for the energy reporting Italy's incentives require.
Edge and cloud
Processing close to the machine where latency matters, cloud where sharing and multi-site analysis matter. Hybrid architectures that survive connection loss: data buffers on-site and re-aligns on its own.
Unified Namespace
A single hierarchy of factory data — site, department, line, machine — that every system subscribes to via MQTT and OPC UA. Adding a new consumer doesn't require touching the PLC: the architecture grows without rewrites.
Securing the convergence
Integration opens flows between IT and OT: we design them segmented and controlled per IEC 62443 — zones and conduits, industrial DMZ, role-based access. Convergence must not become an open door.
When you also need the application layer — supervision, MES, warehouse — we bring ARIA, IOMA's industrial platform, already in production on real plants. And we integrate the systems you've already chosen with the same care.
From assessment to ongoing support, no leaps in the dark.
An IT/OT integration project touches production: that's why we proceed in measurable phases, with the plant always running.
Assessment
We map machines, PLCs, networks, and existing information systems: what produces data, where it ends up, what's missing. The result is an honest snapshot and a priority list shared with the people who live the plant every day.
Architecture
We design the integration architecture: protocols, flows, data naming, network segmentation, edge/cloud choices. Documented and discussed before touching a single machine.
Implementation
We deliver in phases, starting from a pilot line: connectivity, historization, MES/ERP integration. Every release is verified in production before extending to the rest of the plant.
Ongoing support
We monitor the flows, manage evolutions — new machines, new reports, new sites — and remain your technical reference over time, with teleservice and tailored SLAs.
From a single OEM to a multi-site group.
IT/OT integration is not a large-group-only project: we size the architecture to the real perimeter — one machine, one line, multiple plants.
OEMs and machine builders
Machines ready for integration: documented OPC UA interfaces, telemetry for after-sales, connectivity to the end customer's systems. A selling point, not a project cost.
Manufacturing
For plant managers and production managers: measured OEE and downtime, batch traceability, orders synchronized with the ERP. The production meeting starts from numbers, not impressions.
Multi-site groups
Same architecture and same data naming across all plants: homogeneous site-to-site comparisons, repeatable rollouts, one analytics platform. The second plant costs less than the first.
IT/OT integration: the questions we hear most often.
What is IT/OT integration?
It's the structured connection between operational technologies (OT: PLCs, SCADA, machines, sensors, field networks) and business information systems (IT: ERP, MES, databases, cloud, analytics). In practice: production data flows automatically to the systems where planning and decisions happen, and orders and recipes flow back to the plant — no manual entry, one shared source of truth from shop floor to ERP.
What is the difference between IT and OT?
IT (Information Technology) manages business data and applications: ERP, email, databases, cloud. OT (Operational Technology) controls physical processes: PLCs, SCADA, robots, instrumentation. They have different lifecycles (a server is replaced every 3-5 years, a PLC lives 15-20), different protocols (standard TCP/IP on one side; Profinet, S7, Modbus on the other), and opposite priorities: IT protects data confidentiality, OT protects plant availability. Integrating them means respecting both worlds.
Why does NIS2 make IT/OT integration necessary?
The NIS2 directive (transposed in Italy as D.Lgs. 138/2024) requires manufacturing companies to govern the production network as well: asset inventory, controlled flows, access and incident management. An OT network connected to IT "the quick way" — cables pulled over the years, remote accesses nobody ever inventoried — is exactly what the directive penalizes. A well-executed integration project produces the same artifacts NIS2 demands: inventory, segmentation, documented and controlled flows.
Where do you start in an existing plant?
With an assessment of the machine fleet and the systems: what data already exists in the PLCs, which protocols the machines speak, where the most expensive double entries are. From there you pick a pilot perimeter — typically one line — and integrate it end-to-end: connectivity, historization, a first report that didn't exist before. The pilot proves the value and sets the standard for extending to the rest of the plant.
How much does an IT/OT integration project cost?
It depends on the perimeter: number of machines and PLC brands, systems to integrate (MES, ERP such as SAP, cloud), security requirements, and how much network infrastructure already exists. That's why we don't start from a lump-sum offer but from an assessment with a defined scope and cost, which produces the architecture and a phased quote: you invest line by line, seeing results. We operate from Turin across Piedmont, Lombardy, and all of Italy, with projects abroad for OEMs and industrial groups.
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