Drive IT/OT Convergence to Ensure Data Visibility and Compliance

Sharing data between your IT and OT systems can positively impact key metrics across your business—from quality and compliance to speed and efficiency. Despite these systems historically being siloed , you now have technology solutions purpose-built for breaking down IT/OT data silos. It’s time to see how you can transform your data—and your business.

Remove Data Silos

How IT/OT convergence improves compliance, collaboration, and performance

With standardized connectivity, powerful applications, and rich analytics, the IIoT has transformed industrial operations.

IT/OT convergence extends this connected value by breaking down the barriers between OT and IT systems. Now the operational technology running in your machines, on your equipment, and across your production lines can communicate directly with IT platforms. These OT systems—and the rich data they generate—can access and fuel advanced IT systems. The powerful processing potential of these business applications can now reach the core of your operations—your OT systems and data.

By connecting systems that control manufacturing processes with those that control data storage, communications, and computing, you can finally apply your most advanced IT resources to improve your most mission critical operations.

Connecting IT and OT systems ensures products are running to intended spec, output, uptime, and SLAs. It improves visibility and responsiveness to avoid unplanned downtime. It allows full control over parameters, specs, rules, constraints, and policies—revealing not only how equipment is running at all times, but also when an incident may occur based on historical data and conditions.

IT/OT convergence strategy also improves scalability of your digital transformation initiatives. By extending and standardizing data access, you can more readily deploy and scale poweful new solutions, without fear of being trapped in a pilot purgatory.

Our manufacturing and service customers achieve:

Turning Connected Systems Into Business Value

Real-time data visibility

Your connected machines and equipment are a rich source of real-time data. By sharing this data throughout IT, OT, and IIoT systems, your teams can improve the performance metrics that matter most.

Empower your organization with real-time visibility

Make data work for you

Manufacturing throughput

With connected machines and equipment, you can boost your throughput and capacity utilization—by applying analytics to expose the root cause of issues. Enable teams to solve problems before they occur with notifications of status and performance.

Access digital manufacturing solutions to improve throughput

Boost your factory productivity

Equipment and asset efficiency

By connecting, collecting, sharing, and analyzing previously disparate data sources, you can act to improve KPIs—from individual machine components, to performance metrics that span multiple factory sites.

Increase machine efficiency and OEE

Boost your KPIs

Manufacturing overhead

With detailed, real-time visibility across your operations, you can identify and address operational overhead. Tackle direct and hidden costs, from utility and energy impacts to downtime and supply-chain inefficiencies.

Reduce your factory and plant overhead costs

Explore solutions

Maximize revenue growth

By sharing data across IT and OT systems, you can capitalize on high-growth opportunities. From increasing profit margins and overall output, to consumables fulfillment and product-as-a-service solutions, connected systems unlock new business models.

Increase factory output and service revenue

Support new revenue growth

Unlock the potential of connected systems with PTC

To improve product compliance, you must monitor equipment to ensure it’s by the book by analyzing data from two places: the specifications and the equipment. Create visibility into how machines are running and connect data across all systems to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and commercial requirements through real-time monitoring and business system integration (IT/OT connectivity). Start structuring enterprise data in usable ways to automate processes and empower users.

LNS Research: IT/OT Convergence

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Understanding IT/OT Silos

Find out why breaking down silos is important, what optimization and efficiencies data silos are preventing, and why it's been historically difficult to bring together IT and OT systems.

Enable Digital Transformation

Joining IT and OT Forces

Build a better-connected industrial ecosystem with these five criteria for earning buy-in from both teams. View this infographic to get started with a unified view of the plant floor.

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