Your first IT/OT integration pilot: scope to acceptance
Start with one production line. Define data ownership, measurable acceptance criteria and failure scenarios before scaling an integration.
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Pilot scope, data contract, environment decision and commissioning handover: settle an integration project before going on site.
4 itemsSAP & ERP integration
Turning shop-floor events into business records in SAP and other ERP systems: interface choice, duplicate handling and error management.
2 itemsProduction and operations data
OEE, energy, maintenance and traceability: turning counter, state and event data into production information you can interpret.
5 itemsConnectivity and data architecture
OPC UA, MQTT, Sparkplug, SQL and REST: protocol, topic, schema and data contract decisions when connecting systems.
6 itemsReliability and security
Outage buffering, duplicate protection, certificates and network zones: keeping a data flow operable and secure.
3 itemsImplementation guides
12 guides · English & TürkçeSAP production integration: eight decisions before connecting
Design the interface, business transaction, access rights and retry behaviour together for an SAP ECC or S/4HANA project.
Read the guideOEE calculation: get the data right before the formula
Calculate availability, performance and quality for the same time window and the same definition of production.
Read the guideStore & Forward: how to size an outage buffer
Build a transparent estimate from record rate, outage duration, record size and destination recovery capacity.
Read the guideIndustrial MQTT: topics, QoS and the data contract
Go beyond connecting to a broker. Make message meaning, duplication and freshness explicit and manageable.
Read the guideOPC UA certificates: a secure connection checklist
Check trust, application identity and access rights separately to build a repeatable commissioning process.
Read the guidePLC to SQL: design a maintainable data record
Decide on time, quality, uniqueness and retention before turning a tag list into database tables.
Read the guideEnergy monitoring: from kWh to consumption per unit
Combine meter readings with production quantities and matching time windows to create meaningful energy indicators.
Read the guideMaintenance data: from threshold alarm to actionable work order
Connect running hours and process measurements to CMMS or SAP PM while controlling repeated alarms and ownership.
Read the guideEdge or central server? Choosing an integration location
Base placement on network dependencies, operational ownership and recovery needs rather than deployment trends.
Read the guideProduction traceability: connect batch, equipment and time
Turn material movements into queryable events for food, automotive and process manufacturing.
Read the guideCommissioning handover: from working flow to operable system
Make an integration maintainable with a handover package covering backups, monitoring, access and incident ownership.
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Workbook 01
Pilot project workbook
Scope, data contract, acceptance tests and handover checks.
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SAP integration preparation kit
Interface decisions, a field-mapping worksheet and retry scenarios.
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Data reliability & security kit
Buffer capacity, recovery planning and OPC UA certificate checks.
Download PDF · EN · 67 KBWorkbook 04
OEE & energy data kit
Time and count definitions, worked examples and a measurement checklist.
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