Industrial Connectivity Solutions

Access actionable data that improves efficiency, quality and performance through tailor-made industrial connectivity solutions designed to fully realise your digital transformation plans.

Plastika Skaza
Helios
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Iskra Mehanizmi Intelligent Mechatronics
Kansai Paint
Miheu
Konus Konex
Pomurske Mlekarne

What is industrial connectivity?

Industrial connectivity is a combination of hardware, software, data integration and protocols enabling various industrial machines, devices, and systems to communicate and share important actionable data with each other. It is the critical infrastructure needed for smart manufacturing, giving your factory the ability to boost productivity, reduce waste, enhance quality, and enabling predictive manufacturing processes.

Connectivity is what bridges the gap between your data and the systems that benefit from it. Not as a standalone solution that solves everything at once, but as the foundation that gives every system in your operation the OT data it needs to function at its full capacity.

So, in essence, industrial connectivity is being able to connect everything on the factory floor that produces actionable data to anything that might have a use for it – and the use is completely up to you.

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Break your data silos

Extract valuable data from siloed equipment and provide your smart manufacturing systems with actionable information used for intelligent decisions.

 

Connect legacy equipment

Make OT data accessible from equipment that does not have built-in information sharing and monitor your manufacturing processes in real time.

 

 

Build a solid foundation

Build a solid foundation for all your existing equipment and future investments with a unified data layer and easy access to industrial data.

Why do companies choose INEA?

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Our solutions scale with your needs

We approach smart manufacturing on your terms. Start small and expand the scope of your digital transformation according to your goals and needs. From pilot projects, to full-scale integrations, our solutions give you immediate results with a stable foundation for future development and scaling.
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We connect everything to anything

With 2,000+ integration projects behind us and partnerships across a broad selection of vendors and systems, we have the expertise to deliver fully custom connectivity solutions tailored to your exact needs. This allows for greater flexibility when designing your system architecture, prevents reliance on a single supplier, and takes the work of deciding between vendors off your hands.
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We make your data work for you

The most overlooked resources are usually already within your facility. We help you identify what your current infrastructure is capable of and make sure that capability is reaching its full potential without the need for new equipment or costly investments.

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Connectivity protocol selection

Correct connectivity protocol selection is essential for designing the right solution for your specific operational needs. Whether it’s OPC-UA, MQTT, AMQP or Modbus, the connectivity architecture depends on them to ensure full interoperability and seamless data sharing between various machines, devices, and systems in your factory.

INEA’s engineers have worked with the full range of industrial protocols and understand how they behave in real brownfield environments, not just in ideal conditions. That experience is what turns protocol selection from a technical variable into a solved problem.

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Connecting legacy equipment

Connecting legacy equipment

Most factory floors carry decades of operational history in their machines. Years of producing consistent results, wear patterns and performance data with every cycle. These machines have valuable information to share, but they were built before sharing information was part of their design. They sense changes and trigger alarms, but their data goes no further than a warning light and alarm for the eyes of the operator. Without connectivity, that person becomes the network. Skilled people spending their time as a human relay system while production stands still.

Industrial connectivity gives legacy machines a digital voice. Sensors that previously triggered a physical alarm now send structured data directly to the right system and person simultaneously. The issue is identified and acted on automatically, letting your people focus on the decisions that actually require human judgement.

Integration process

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Defining the scope

Your connectivity solution starts with what you already have. Before anything is designed or built, we map your existing equipment, systems and architecture. This helps us understand what needs to be connected, what needs access to which data, and which protocols are required to achieve that.

The result is a clear picture of your current state and a precisely defined scope for everything that follows.
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Design and implementation

With clearly defined requirements and a thoroughly mapped factory environment, our engineers can now design your connectivity architecture.

In this step, your equipment gets connected, protocols are configured and your data gains a path to travel and a structure that makes it meaningful to the systems that will use it.
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Integration and validation

The architecture is now in place and it’s time to extract, structure, and contextualise the data, giving your systems access to actionable information and your people a visual interface to interact with it.

This stage is first done on a pilot scope, giving us the opportunity to validate that everything is functioning as intended before we scale the solution.
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Gradual expansion

After the pilot is validated, we progressively roll out the solution across your facility in a pre-agreed scope. This measured approach ensures minimal disruption to your operations while giving each newly included area the same attention as the first. As coverage grows, so does the data available to your systems, fulfilling the promise of a fully connected smart factory.

Frequently Asked Questions

All efforts to optimise production, increase margins, or even just track performance require high quality data on which to make informed decisions. Industrial connectivity gives you access to that data and the power to analyse it without any major disruptions to your manufacturing process while providing the necessary architecture for any future digitalisation efforts. If you are still not using your data, connectivity is your smartest investment with the biggest ROI potential.  
The short answer to that question is yes. Data sent to the cloud or through a network is vulnerable to unauthorised access or cyberattacks. But smart safety measures such as network segmentation, firewall implementation and secure communication provide multiple layers of protection, and a well-made connectivity solution is designed with these measures built in.
The two terms are not mutually exclusive. Connectivity is becoming a foundational step in implementing an MES solution. While MES doesn’t inherently need connectivity, the merging of the two technologies results in a much more comprehensive and powerful solution.
The ability to connect isn’t conditioned by the equipment’s age. While an old machine most likely has no built-in ways of extracting or transferring operational data, we can use other devices such as PLCs or various sensors to give it that ability. An investment into new equipment always needs to be weighed against the value of an established machine with new-found data.    
Depending on their use, industrial connectivity protocols are divided in two distinct groups. OT protocols such as Modbus, PROFINET, and OPC UA are used to connect machines and control systems, while IIoT protocols such as MQTT, REST, or AMQP are used to connect to edge, cloud, and analytics platforms.
Imagine the machines in your factory as a diverse team of individuals that each speak a different language. They also communicate in illegible alphabets and aren't unified in how they mark dates and time. The result: several machines measuring the same thing — say, operating temperature — send data labelled "temp_C", "T1_celsius", or sometimes just a raw number with no label at all. Your smart systems don't know these are the same measurement coming from different machines. A unified namespace establishes a single, well-structured environment where all that data is collected, standardised, and made accessible in one place — a single source of truth for your manufacturing data. That temperature reading, regardless of which machine sent it or how it was formatted, arrives consistently labelled, accurately timestamped, and attached to the asset it came from. This allows all the data to be understood by your smart systems or used in your predictive manufacturing processes.  
All efforts to optimise production, increase margins, or even just track performance require high quality data on which to make informed decisions. Industrial connectivity gives you access to that data and the power to analyse it without any major disruptions to your manufacturing process while providing the necessary architecture for any future digitalisation efforts. If you are still not using your data, connectivity is your smartest investment with the biggest ROI potential.  
The short answer to that question is yes. Data sent to the cloud or through a network is vulnerable to unauthorised access or cyberattacks. But smart safety measures such as network segmentation, firewall implementation and secure communication provide multiple layers of protection, and a well-made connectivity solution is designed with these measures built in.
The two terms are not mutually exclusive. Connectivity is becoming a foundational step in implementing an MES solution. While MES doesn’t inherently need connectivity, the merging of the two technologies results in a much more comprehensive and powerful solution.
The ability to connect isn’t conditioned by the equipment’s age. While an old machine most likely has no built-in ways of extracting or transferring operational data, we can use other devices such as PLCs or various sensors to give it that ability. An investment into new equipment always needs to be weighed against the value of an established machine with new-found data.    
Depending on their use, industrial connectivity protocols are divided in two distinct groups. OT protocols such as Modbus, PROFINET, and OPC UA are used to connect machines and control systems, while IIoT protocols such as MQTT, REST, or AMQP are used to connect to edge, cloud, and analytics platforms.
Imagine the machines in your factory as a diverse team of individuals that each speak a different language. They also communicate in illegible alphabets and aren't unified in how they mark dates and time. The result: several machines measuring the same thing — say, operating temperature — send data labelled "temp_C", "T1_celsius", or sometimes just a raw number with no label at all. Your smart systems don't know these are the same measurement coming from different machines. A unified namespace establishes a single, well-structured environment where all that data is collected, standardised, and made accessible in one place — a single source of truth for your manufacturing data. That temperature reading, regardless of which machine sent it or how it was formatted, arrives consistently labelled, accurately timestamped, and attached to the asset it came from. This allows all the data to be understood by your smart systems or used in your predictive manufacturing processes.  

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