ServiTecno leads to Forum Software Industriale forty years of experience serving the manufacturing sector. The proposed solutions and methodologies allow companies to increase the visibility on industrial assets and processes.

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The rapid increase in complexity requires solutions capable of restoring the necessary visibility of assets, infrastructures and manufacturing processes to all company levels: let's see how and what is meant by VISIBILITY.

VISIBILITY in production

For the aspects more closely related to production, it is necessary to put the operators able to recognize at a glance important information to pay close attention to, in order to detect any problems and be able to deal with them in the most efficient way possible.

iFIX 6.0 from GE Digital takes care of exactly this, allowing operators to work in an ever smarter way thanks to ergonomic screens and able to adapt to the device. iFIX, however, also takes care of "picking up" the production data from the field to the management systems in real time and in complete safety, according to recognized standards, thus allowing the company management to have visibility in real time of what happens in production.

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iFIX also integrates with Ocean Data Systems' DreamReport and WIN911, two solutions of fundamental importance able to increase the "visibility" in production.

Visibility on the corporate network

The industrial networks, once considered safe because they are physically separated from the "rest of the world" and built on proprietary protocols, have become one of the weak points on which companies must intervene.

Un first step, for example, should be the network activity monitoring.

A traffic anomaly it might in fact be indication of a malfunction or even sabotage induced by an unauthorized intrusion into company systems. ServiTecno will talk about this theme during a speech during the session of the Industrial Software Forum dedicated to CyberSecurity.
Automated systems Anomaly Detection, such as the one developed by Nozomi Networks, they can represent a first level of "early warning" to protect networks and control systems and to safeguard the controlled plant.

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It is solutions that analyze the relationships between the various terminals and traffic volumes, helping to define the rules of a “normal” communication and, consequently, a recognize unlawful behavior.

Asset visibility

Then there is a theme related to asset management (for example PLC, HMI-SCADA, robots, ICS, DCS, but not only) more and more and increasingly governed by continuously updated firmware and software.

To have an effective management capacity of these assets it is important to have a tool that keeps track of all changes and keeps a backup copy of all versions of installed applications.

In this way, in case a recovery is necessary following a failure or an IT attack, it will be possible restore your system in no time, gaining precious hours (if not days) of production.

Such a system, like the one offered by MDT Software also allows you to detect any differences between the runtime running on a controller and what "should" be there, thus allowing to prevent possible alterations of the machine code by saboteurs.

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The visibility on the business

In manufacturing sector an hour of plant downtime can cost several dozen (if not hundreds) of thousands of euros, only by calculating the lost production.

But it is good to remember that unplanned downtime can cost up to 10 times more than a planned shutdown (for maintenance, control, tests, etc…), considering the sum of all related costs.
Le virtualization solutions offered by Stratus make it possible to increase the availability of systems up to achieving high availability (99,99% and above) in a simpler and cheaper way than the physical multiplication of servers.

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È visibility therefore the keyword with which ServiTecno will present its proposal in Milan on February 6th at the Industrial Software Forum.
The historical moment we are experiencing, defined by many as the fourth industrial revolution, sees the complexity of industrial systems grow dramatically, linked on the one hand to the increase in "intelligent" devices, and on the other to the progressive interconnection and integration between the different areas of the shop floor both between production and management systems.
ServiTecno, which has been focused on software-driven innovation since 1979, is able to offer a response to this need at various levels.