4.0Machine data · Industry 4.0 and 5.0

Your machines talk to your software

We integrate OT and IT: we talk to PLCs over OPC UA, Modbus and EtherCAT, through the gateways and SCADA already in your plant or our own materialBOX® gateway.

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Key features

Real machine data, not estimates

Orders, recipes and parameters go from your software to the machine; counters, states and alarms flow back to MES and ERP.

We read and write PLC data over the main industrial protocols, on new and older machines.

We connect to the gateways and SCADA already in your plant; where there are none, we install our materialBOX® gateway.

Shopfloor dashboards with state, speed and downtime for every machine; OEE calculated from machine data.

Performance and consumption analysis per machine, the basis for the 5.0 plan.

Two-way OT/IT integration
  • From shopfloor to ERP and back
  • One data source, no transcription
  • 4.0 and 5.0 requirements
Why adopt it

Why integrate OT and IT

A machine that doesn't talk to your software is an investment you only half understand.

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4.0 and 5.0 incentives

Documented interconnection to access tax credits.

02

Existing equipment put to work

We use the PLCs, gateways and SCADA you already have: nothing to rebuild.

03

No transcription

Counters, times and downtime go straight into MES and ERP.

04

Energy under control

Consumption per machine and per part to cut costs and emissions.

Case studies · 4.0

Who uses it every day

In depth · 4.0

OT/IT integration in practice

From PLC to business software, and back

Orders, recipes and parameters go from your software to the machine; counters, states, alarms and process parameters flow back to MES and ERP. We talk to PLCs over the main industrial protocols, including OPC UA, Modbus, EtherCAT and MQTT, plus vendor-specific integrations.

Older machines can often be connected via retrofit, with sensors and acquisition devices.

Existing gateways and SCADA, or materialBOX®

If your plant already has gateways or SCADA systems, we connect to them: the data they collect becomes production information without rebuilding the infrastructure.

Where there is no data collection point we install materialBOX®, our industrial gateway, natively integrated with materialSUITE®.

OEE, energy and 4.0/5.0 incentives

Availability, performance and quality are calculated from machine data, and the downtime Pareto shows which causes really matter. Consumption per machine and per part, peaks and waste are the basis for cutting energy costs and for the Italian Transition 5.0 plan.

The interconnection is designed to meet the requirements and we support you with the technical documentation.

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Everything you want to know about 4.0

Getting the machine world (OT: PLCs, sensors, SCADA) and the business systems (IT: MES, ERP) to talk to each other, both ways and with no manual steps.

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Find out what your machines can tell you

Digitise your production with a dedicated consultant.

HMI panel beside an automated production line showing OEE, speed, machine status and ON/OFF commands
Jacopo Melchiorri
Jacopo Melchiorri
Machine connectivity and OT expert, with you from the first call to the trial.

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