SOLUTIONS BY BUYER PROFILE

Seven ways EdgeBits shows up on the plant floor.

Each of these is a real conversation we’ve had — a specific first pain, a specific title on the buyer side, and the same platform underneath. Pick the one closest to your team’s current mandate.

RUNS THIS: Plant Head · Energy Manager · Head of Sustainability

Also on their KPI: Head of Digital Manufacturing · Sustainability Lead

Energy monitoring — on your server

Your meter vendor holds your data on their server and bills you for a Power BI dashboard. Same meter has a Modbus port sitting on your OT network. EdgeBits reads it. The data lives on your box.

  • Read any Modbus meter (TCP or RTU) you already have
  • Per-line, per-shift, per-plant energy dashboards
  • Compliance reports — BEE / PAT in India, ISO 50001 and CSRD elsewhere out of the box
  • Publish to Power BI, Grafana, or your own tool
Modbus meter → Edge Node → TimescaleDB (your box) → Grafana / Power BI
  • Modbus TCP / RTU connector (production, packaged .deb / .rpm)
  • Edge Node buffer on TimescaleDB (90d raw / 1y 15-min / 3y hourly)
  • REST egress to Grafana, Power BI, custom endpoints
  • Edge Analytics energy dashboards + BEE / PAT reports

RUNS THIS: TPM Manager · Head of Operations · Manufacturing Excellence Lead

Also on their KPI: VP Operations · Head of Business Transformation

Manufacturing intelligence

OEE isn’t a number typed into an Excel file the day after. Read directly from PLCs and CNCs, get availability, performance, and quality live, and put reason codes on the loss buckets automatically.

  • Live OEE per line, per shift, per plant
  • Reason-code capture at 100% instead of the manual ~70%
  • Six Big Losses mapped to Availability / Performance / Quality
  • All 8 TPM Pillars supported on the same platform
PLC / CNC → Edge Node → Rules + reason codes → OEE dashboard
  • Siemens S7, EtherNet/IP (Allen-Bradley), OPC-UA connectors
  • Rule engine with reason-code capture on the edge
  • Edge Analytics OEE dashboards per line + shift comparison
  • Downtime classification with tamper-evident lineage via fasten

RUNS THIS: Head of Quality · GMP Head · Compliance Officer · Regulatory Affairs

Also on their KPI: Chief Risk Officer · Head of Sustainability (CCTS · CBAM)

Quality & compliance

Continuous processes need continuous evidence. Temperature, humidity, pressure, sealed with a tamper-evident hash chain. When the regulator asks “prove it,” the audit trail is already there — in the shape 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5 and CSV validation expect, rather than a report you assemble afterwards.

  • Continuous sensor monitoring at second-level fidelity
  • Immutable audit trail via fasten (hash-chained, exportable)
  • Ready for GMP, ISO 22000, IATF 16949, CCTS reporting
  • Air-gap-compatible for the strictest QA environments
Sensor → Edge + fasten → Hash-chained log → Regulator report
  • Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT connectors for sensors
  • fasten audit chain across every hop — open-source, exportable
  • CCTS-ready emissions pipeline (Modbus meter to sealed tCO₂e/t)
  • Air-gap deploy variant — no outbound network required

RUNS THIS: CIO · IT Head · ERP Admin · Finance Controller

Also on their KPI: Head of Digital Transformation · IT-OT Bridge Lead

ERP & supply chain integration

Production counts should not enter SAP the day after the shift, typed by hand. Push actuals in real time from the shop floor to the ERP you already run — no bespoke middleware, no per-connector project.

  • SAP S/4HANA via OData (production, cost centre, quality specs)
  • Oracle Fusion, Dynamics 365, NetSuite via REST
  • Tally via REST bridge or scheduled batch
  • Bidirectional — ERP context enriches the shop-floor data
PLC → Edge Node → SAP / Oracle / Tally
  • SAP OData connector (production orders, cost centre, BOM)
  • REST egress with retry + store-and-forward through WAN drops
  • One consistent shape for every reading, whatever machine it came from
  • Analytics reads ERP context back so operators see the whole story

RUNS THIS: Head of Maintenance · Reliability Engineer · Asset Manager

Also on their KPI: Head of Manufacturing Excellence · Head of Digital Manufacturing

Predictive maintenance

Vibration signatures, motor current envelopes, bearing temperature trends — all computed on the edge, alerted before the failure. Works with the ABB drives, Schneider motors, and Fanuc CNCs you already own.

  • Vibration FFT + envelope analysis on the edge
  • Motor current signature analysis (MCSA)
  • Bearing temperature drift and RUL estimation
  • Alerts to email, webhook, MQTT, WhatsApp bridge — your call
Vibration sensor → FFT on edge → Rule + alert → Maintenance ticket
  • FFT + envelope analysis presets on the Edge Node
  • Rule engine with threshold, deadband, and trend triggers
  • Alert egresses: email, webhook, MQTT, WhatsApp bridge
  • Modbus, OPC-UA, IO-Link sensor connectors

RUNS THIS: Plant Head · VP Operations · Head of Manufacturing IT

Also on their KPI: Head of Digital Manufacturing · IT-OT Bridge Lead

Brownfield to connected

Your Siemens S7-300 from 2008. Your Allen-Bradley SLC-500. Your Modbus energy meters. The 3-year-old vibration probes. All of them connect in read-only mode. Nothing on the shop floor changes.

  • Read-only from your existing PLCs (no PLC program changes)
  • Same wire, same scan cycle, same operators
  • Raspberry Pi to industrial PC — whichever fits your cabinet
  • First reading on the UNS the same day the Pi gets plugged in
Legacy PLC → Edge Node (Pi 4) → UNS + dashboard
  • Connectors: Modbus TCP / RTU, S7, EtherNet/IP, OPC-UA, MQTT
  • Read-only mode with per-connector scan cycle
  • Runs on Debian Bookworm / Ubuntu 24.04 / Rocky Linux 9.4
  • Air-gap deploy variant when the shop floor stays air-gapped

RUNS THIS: CIO · Group Head of Manufacturing · Head of Manufacturing IT

Also on their KPI: CDO · Head of Business Transformation · IT-OT Bridge Lead

Multi-site fleet

One plant to ten plants without an army of SIs. Edge Manager runs the fleet; each plant calls out to it over HTTPS. No inbound port on any plant. One deploy from HQ, every site converges.

  • ISA-95 topology across every site in one place
  • Remote pipeline deploy with version + rollback
  • Health monitoring + drift detection per node
  • Zero inbound firewall rules — the plant only ever calls out
N plants → Edge Manager → One dashboard
  • Edge Manager on-prem / private cloud / cloud VM
  • A DMZ bridge that registers with a one-time claim code
  • Remote deploy of pipelines with version + drift + rollback
  • Fleet-wide audit sync via fasten

DOESN’T SOUND LIKE YOUR MONDAY?

Tell us what your first pain looks like.

The seven above are the ones we see most. Real plants are always more specific. Pick the one closest, or tell us the actual shape of your problem, and we’ll set up a call.