Smart Manufacturing OT Visibility

An illustrative evaluation model in which defined production-line equipment status and process data are released one way from the Source Zone to establish visibility for manufacturing and analytics systems in the Destination Zone.

Industrial machinery and vehicle bodies on an automotive assembly line, illustrating the context of smart-manufacturing data sources. — Scenario context image; not a record of a product deployment.
Photo: Car factory assembly line - Opel factory in Gliwice, PolandAuthor: Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo portfolioLicense: CC BY 3.0Source:Wikimedia Commons

Source → boundary → destination

Complete Data Path

Source / Source Zone
Source Zone systems and data
Sources
OPC UA servers, Modbus TCP control equipment
Data
Equipment status and process variables, Approved register data
Hardware-enforced boundary
Hardware-enforced one-way boundary
Source Modulesource-to-destination one-way fiber data transferReceiving Module
Within the listed hardware version, topology, and test scope, the Source Module receives defined production-line data and sends it across the specified physical one-way link as source-to-destination one-way fiber data transfer; the Receiving Module then receives the data and provides a data interface usable by destination systems.
Destination / Destination Zone
Destination Zone systems and uses
Destinations
Historians, MES and analytics systems
Use
For the Destination Zone to review process trends, equipment status, and approved representations of production data.

Evaluation inputs

Evaluation Considerations

01
Confirm the approved scope of OPC UA nodes and Modbus registers.
02
Confirm data freshness, volume, and acceptable loss conditions.
03
Confirm the receiving-side interface and data representation required by Destination Zone systems.

Source Zone systems and data

Hardware-enforced one-way boundary

Destination Zone systems and uses