UNDERSTAND YOUR ENVIRONMENTThe Challenge
Production lines that cannot stop, protocols that IT tools ignore, and isolated segments that remain invisible.
01OT/IT Convergence Gap
Production networks running Modbus and PROFINET existed in complete isolation from corporate IT. No unified inventory, no shared visibility, and two separate teams with no common tooling, creating blind spots that persisted for years.
02Legacy Industrial Protocols
Critical PLCs and SCADA systems communicated over Modbus TCP/RTU and PROFINET. Standard IT management tools had zero visibility into these protocols, and the OT team relied on vendor-specific consoles with no export or integration capabilities.
03Isolated Production Segments
Safety-critical production cells were physically isolated with no connectivity to the corporate network. Configuration changes required on-site visits with USB drives, and there was no backup or version history for any production switch or PLC gateway.
04Safety-Critical Change Risk
An unauthorized switch configuration change on a bottling line caused a 4-hour production stop costing EUR 180,000. There was no change approval workflow, no rollback capability, and no way to determine which engineer made the change.