Manufacturing & Industrial IoT
Kornspire connects production operations to business systems: machine telemetry ingestion, production and quality tracking, maintenance data and dashboards, with operational-technology boundaries respected.
What we build
What we can build and run in this sector
Machine and sensor telemetry
Reading from equipment where interfaces permit, edge collection and buffering, and time-series ingestion that tolerates plant network interruptions.
Production and quality tracking
Job and batch records, yield and scrap tracking, quality checks and genealogy traceable to the unit or batch.
Maintenance data and alerting
Condition monitoring, threshold and anomaly alerting, and maintenance history that supports planning rather than reacting.
Business system integration
Connecting plant data to ERP and planning systems through a controlled boundary, in one direction where safety requires it.
Operational dashboards
Shift and line views built for plant-floor conditions: legible at distance, resilient to connectivity loss, focused on exceptions.
Pressures
What this sector demands of the engineering
Manufacturing carries a boundary most sectors do not: operational technology on the plant floor has a safety and availability profile that ordinary IT practice can violate. Useful work here means reading from equipment and adding visibility without introducing a path that could disrupt production, and without pretending a decades-old controller can be treated like a web service.
01Production equipment exposes limited, proprietary or legacy interfaces
02Operational technology networks must stay segmented from business IT
03Unplanned downtime has an immediate, quantifiable cost
04Quality and traceability records must be reconstructable per batch or unit
05Plant conditions constrain hardware placement, connectivity and maintenance
Constraints
Regulatory and operational limits we design around
Engineering controls, not legal advice
We build and evidence the technical controls compliance depends on. Determining which obligations apply to your organisation is a matter for your legal and compliance advisers.
- Operational-technology segmentation must be preserved; read-only and one-way paths are preferred by default
- Safety systems are never in scope for modification
- Equipment vendor warranty and support terms may restrict interfacing
- Traceability records carry sector-specific retention requirements
Answers
Manufacturing & Industrial IoT: questions
Will connecting machines to IT systems create a security risk?
It can, which is why the boundary is designed first. The default position is read-only collection at the edge, one-way data flow into the business network, strict segmentation, and no new inbound path to the plant floor. Anything that would allow a business-network system to influence production equipment is treated as a separate decision requiring explicit engineering and safety review — not a convenience to be added quietly.
Our equipment is old and has no API. Is telemetry possible?
Often, but it must be assessed per machine. Options range from existing protocol interfaces and vendor gateways to external sensors that observe the machine without interfacing with it at all. Where the only viable route would compromise segmentation, warranty or safety, we say so rather than engineering around the objection.
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Building for manufacturing & industrial iot?
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