Manufacturing OT
Move production counts, downtime reasons and scrap into Business Central and Power BI without exposing the control network.
Data flows one way from the SCADA or MES layer, through a broker or historian in the industrial DMZ, to ERP and Power BI. The control network stays isolated; ERP never polls a PLC directly. Production counts, downtime reasons, scrap and machine state are normalized, validated and posted at a cadence that matches the business process — not a manual spreadsheet at the end of the shift.
OT to ERP
SCADA and MES feed a broker in the industrial DMZ, and from there Business Central and Power BI get current counts, downtime and scrap with no return path to the control network.
The biggest risk in integrating OT and ERP is giving the business system a path back into the control network. We design the integration so the data moves out, not in. If ERP needs to send a schedule or job order, it is staged and verified through a separate, controlled path.
Most manufacturers still have someone walking the floor with a clipboard, entering counts into ERP at the end of the shift. That data is late, error-prone and hard to reconcile. A governed data flow gives you the same numbers, continuously, with an audit trail.
Common questions
No. The SCADA or MES buffer is local. ERP receives summaries at a business cadence, not every PLC cycle.
That is normal. OPC UA and MQTT are vendor-neutral, and REST APIs from ERP can consume the data once it is normalized. We design the broker layer to be the bridge.
We review your network, security posture, cloud tenant and recovery plan, then hand you a plain-language report of what we found and what it means for the business.
