Plant Data and Integration

Getting trustworthy data off the floor and into systems that act on it. Tag standardisation, contextualisation, and the unglamorous work that makes analytics possible.

Where this sits

This is ISA-95 Level 4. Naming the layer matters, because the most expensive mistakes in modernization come from solving a problem at the wrong level of the stack.

What we actually do here

• Assess what is installed, what version it is on, and what depends on it
• Decide what to modernize, in what order, and what to deliberately leave alone
• Write scope and acceptance criteria that a vendor cannot quietly reinterpret
• Review design and code before commissioning, not after
• Make sure the plant can support the result once the project team has gone

Platform position

Vendor-independent, but not opinion-neutral. When one platform is clearly better for a given situation, we will say which and why. When the honest answer is that the existing system is fine and the money is better spent elsewhere, that is the recommendation.