After pioneering fast, reliable, and secure industrial communications as the backbone of today’s Digital Enterprise, Siemens is helping customers to bridge the divide between operational technology (OT) and enterprise information technology (IT) in ways to support collaboration and enhance overall production efficiency, reliability, visibility, flexibility, and security much more.
For decades, the world’s many industries have invested heavily in information technology (IT) to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency and visibility, and, ultimately, boost profits. In doing so, IT professionals have laid a big part of the foundation for what’s called the Digital Enterprise. But for extractive, manufacturing, and logistics industries, the Digital Enterprise also involves another form of IT on the “shop floor” side of an organization, which is commonly referred to as Operational Technology (OT).