Safeguarding Your
Against the Uncertain Future
You've long relied on DIY workarounds to fix data connectivity issues across your plant floor. These workarounds solve immediate problems—but cause more headaches over the long-term by preventing scalability. Are you scalable and agile for whatever the future holds—or bogged down in DIY overload? Go through this checklist to find out where to focus your future-proof initiatives.
Plant Floor
Built-in Application Connectivity through a connectivity solution that isn’t standardized to provide data to all needed sites and stakeholders.
Built-in connectivity can cause challenges when integrating existing equipment with new systems.
Future-Flop?
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New equipment, new vendors, business growth, strategy pivots . . . future goals are often stymied by DIY that was built as a band-aid but becomes a blockade.
DIY Danger
Too many different systems, each with their own connectivity silo, can stress your plant floor network and lead to downtime.
Overburdened = Offline?
In-House Workarounds that were built to solve only specific, urgent interoperability challenges.
Frequent Downtime caused by network complexity.
None of the above
Does Your Plant Floor Include?
Does Your Plant Floor Include?
Industrial Data Access, such as the drivers that come packaged with a SCADA or Historian, as your primary data connectivity solution.
Future-proofing requires data accessibility across traditional protocols (such as OPC) as well as across enterprise solutions, IIoT platforms, and other systems that rely on IT-centric protocols.
Growth Groundwork
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You may not be implementing IIoT or Industry 4.0 solutions today, but your competition is. Whenever you are ready for digital transformation, re-building connectivity to incorporate new systems is time-consuming and costly—leaving you further behind.
Speed & Scale to Success
Vendor lock-in keeps you from switching out existing tools for the benefits of new features from other vendors. This can cause a cascade of problems, including more time sunk into non-scalable workarounds and missed revenue opportunities.
Inflexible & Inefficient
Legacy Systems That Aren’t Interoperable with IIoT or with other digital transformation strategies.
Vendor Inflexibility or Lock-In with no agnostic connectivity.
None of the above
Industrial Data Access, such as the drivers that come packaged with a SCADA or Historian, as your primary data connectivity solution.
Future-proofing requires data accessibility across traditional protocols (such as OPC) as well as across enterprise solutions, IIoT platforms, and other systems that rely on IT-centric protocols.
Growth Groundwork
NEXT
NEXT
You may not be implementing IIoT or Industry 4.0 solutions today, but your competition is. Whenever you are ready for digital transformation, re-building connectivity to incorporate new systems is time-consuming and costly—leaving you further behind.
Speed & Scale to Success
Vendor lock-in keeps you from switching out existing tools for the benefits of new features from other vendors. This can cause a cascade of problems, including more time sunk into non-scalable workarounds and missed revenue opportunities.
Inflexible & Inefficient
Legacy Systems That Aren’t Interoperable with IIoT or with other digital transformation strategies.
Vendor Inflexibility or Lock-In with no agnostic connectivity.
None of the above
Does Your Plant Floor Include?
You need data connectivity that can solve your challenges today while scaling to tomorrow’s needs. The best solution will include a breadth of connectivity to meet any data access challenge and will enable data visibility across all levels of the enterprise. Don’t limit your future plant floor to today’s systems—whether due to vendor lock-in, unstandardized data, or legacy inoperability. Look for a data connectivity solution that will: • Standardize the data layer across all operational sites • Easily deploy at multiple sites and use cases to provide a simple, unified interface for data across IT and OT • Seamlessly incorporate legacy assets into IIoT initiatives and eliminate data silos
Scalability Slump
Your Plant Floor is in a
start over
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BASED ON YOUR CHECKLIST:
Expanding operations and adding new equipment generally means business is good. But challenges with integrating into existing systems can cause costly re-work and grind that business growth to a halt. If you’re using built-in application connectivity (for example, the drivers that come packaged with a SCADA or Historian) or a workaround DIY solution, there is a danger that new equipment won’t communicate with existing systems. Don’t limit your future plant floor to your DIY abilities. Look for a data connectivity solution that will: • Standardize the data layer across all operational sites • Easily deploy at multiple sites and use cases to provide a simple, unified interface for data across IT and OT • Seamlessly incorporate legacy assets into IIoT initiatives and eliminate data silos
diy danger
Your Plant Floor is in
start over
BASED ON YOUR CHECKLIST:
Read the 5 Change-Management Challenges eBook to learn how a purpose-built IIoT solution can future-proof your plant floor.
There are many ways to connect industrial assets. But be wary of the methods that create issues when you expand operations, add new equipment, scale to multiple facilities, or incorporate new industrial data (especially today, when an IIoT strategy is a must-have need). These issues are often considered future challenges. But whatever the future holds, growth should not be a burden. Look for a future-proofed data connectivity solution that will: • Provide a single source of industrial automation data to all of your applications • Standardize the data layer across all operational sites • Easily deploy at multiple sites and use cases to provide a simple, unified interface for data across IT and OT • Seamlessly incorporate legacy assets into IIoT initiatives and eliminate data silos
Future-Fail State
Your Plant Floor is in A
start over
BASED ON YOUR CHECKLIST:
Read the 5 Change-Management Challenges eBook to learn how a purpose-built IIoT solution can future-proof your plant floor.
You've got a good set-up for future-proofed scalability across the enterprise! Don't lose steam, now. Look for a data connectivity solution that will: • Standardize the data layer across all operational sites • Easily deploy at multiple sites and use cases to provide a simple, unified interface for data across IT and OT • Seamlessly incorporate legacy assets into IIoT initiatives and eliminate data silos
future ready
Your Plant Floor is
start over
BASED ON YOUR CHECKLIST:
Read the 5 Change-Management Challenges eBook to learn how a purpose-built IIoT solution can future-proof your plant floor.
