Process Industry

• How does Industry 4.0 drive greater value creation?

  Industry 4.0 creates value in the mineral industry by enabling real-time monitoring, automation, and data-driven decision-making. This leads to improved efficiency, reduced costs, and enhanced safety across operations. Industry 4.0 relies on OPC UA for secure, standardized communication between industrial devices and IT systems. All our development is based on the OPC UA standard.

• Why is IT-OT integration progressing slowly?

  Integrating OT with IT to build data analytics systems in industrial environments offers significant potential for improving operational efficiency. However, this integration is not without its challenges. These often arise from fundamental differences in the goals, architectures, and cultures of OT and IT departments. With the right strategies, organizations can overcome OT-IT barriers, enabling collaboration, aligned goals, and smarter data-driven decisions.

• How to maximize uptime?

  Maximum uptime is achieved by shifting from planned to condition-based maintenance (CBM) and implementing regular self-tests of the process facility. We’ve developed advanced, reusable CBM solutions for process plants. By integrating self-testing with defined process repetitions, we gain deeper insights into plant health and performance.