Industrial Software & Automation
Custom software solutions for Saudi manufacturing, oil & gas, and industrial operations — from SCADA system integrations and IoT sensor dashboards to predictive maintenance platforms, production line monitoring, and quality control automation aligned with Saudi industrial standards.
Book a Free ConsultationWhat is industrial software integration?
Industrial software integration connects the operational technology on a plant floor — SCADA systems, PLCs and historians — to IT systems, so production data reaches dashboards, maintenance planning and the ERP without manual collection. Mantiqi builds this layer for Saudi manufacturing and oil and gas sites with OPC UA, MQTT and Modbus connectors, time-series storage and edge dashboards, with the OT and IT networks segmented in line with NCA's Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls.
Typical timeline: OT landscape audit in weeks 1–2, integration and time-series foundation in weeks 3–8, operations applications in weeks 8–14.
Why this matters
Saudi manufacturing and oil & gas operations sit on decades of OT infrastructure (SCADA, PLCs, historians) that the IT side can't get clean data out of. The OEMs sell you their own dashboard licenses; the integrators write throw-away PowerBI connectors that break on the next firmware update; and the actual question — "why did line 3 OEE drop last shift" — still gets answered by an engineer walking the floor with a clipboard. Mantiqi builds the integration layer between OT and IT: real SCADA / OPC-UA / MQTT connectors, time-series stores designed for industrial volume, and dashboards that production managers actually use during their shift handover, not quarterly reviews.
What We Deliver
How we deliver
- 01
OT landscape audit
Weeks 1–2We walk your sites, inventory the SCADA / PLC / historian / sensor stack, identify which protocols + data points are exposable, and produce a written remediation map covering connectivity, data quality, and security gaps (IT/OT segmentation, credentials hygiene).
- OT inventory + protocol map
- Data-availability scorecard per asset class
- Security gap-list (NCA OTCC-1:2022 + IEC 62443)
- Recommended integration architecture
- 02
Integration + time-series foundation
Weeks 3–8Edge gateway deployment (Ignition, FactoryTalk, or open-source MQTT brokers depending on environment), time-series database (InfluxDB / TimescaleDB / Azure Data Explorer) sized for your sensor volume, and a normalized data model that survives equipment changes.
- Edge gateway + protocol adapters
- Time-series database with retention policy
- Normalized data model + tag dictionary
- IT/OT network segmentation
- 03
Operations applications
Weeks 8–14Real applications on top of the data foundation: shift-handover OEE dashboards, predictive-maintenance models per critical asset class, quality-control alerting, safety-incident reporting integrated with HSE workflows. Built per your operations team, not a generic Industry 4.0 suite.
- OEE + production dashboards per shift
- Predictive maintenance alerts
- Quality-control SPC / alarms
- Mobile incident reporting (Arabic + English)
- 04
Operate + scale
OngoingQuarterly model retraining as production lines evolve, new-asset onboarding into the integration layer, and IT/OT incident response. New asset classes are added once the first ones have proven their value against the baseline.
- Quarterly model retraining
- New-asset onboarding workflow
- IT/OT incident response coverage
- Annual roadmap with operations leadership
Frequently asked questions
Production deployments with Ignition, Wonderware/AVEVA, Rockwell FactoryTalk, OSIsoft PI / AVEVA PI, and Honeywell Experion. For greenfield or where licensing matters we build with open-source stacks (Node-RED + EMQX + Telegraf + InfluxDB / TimescaleDB). The protocol layer matters more than the SCADA brand — most of our integrations land on OPC UA, MQTT Sparkplug, or Modbus depending on what the equipment exposes.
We architect for IT/OT segmentation as a first-class concern: edge gateways sit in the OT zone, only push pre-aggregated data over a unidirectional or firewall-gated path to the IT zone. Compliance reference is NCA's Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC-1:2022) + IEC 62443; for sensitive sectors (oil & gas, utilities) we map to the specific Saudi Aramco / Saudi Electricity / SAMA frameworks the client operates under.
Honest answer: depends on the asset class and how much failure history you have. For rotating equipment with 12+ months of vibration / temperature data, anomaly detection genuinely works and prevents unscheduled downtime. For one-off assets or where every failure is different, predictive ML adds noise. We're upfront in the audit about which assets are good candidates and which to skip.
Yes. Edge dashboards (running on plant-floor PCs or ruggedized tablets) sync to the central historian when network is available and operate from local cache when it isn't. For remote sites with intermittent connectivity (Empty Quarter installations, offshore platforms) this is the only viable pattern.
We work across all the major industrial platforms and don't tie engagements to a specific vendor partnership — that's a conscious choice. Most projects we see have already accumulated technology debt from the previous "strategic partner" choosing what was easy for them. Our recommendation per project is what fits your environment, not what we have margin on.
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Free OT-to-IT integration audit
Send us a description of your current SCADA / historian / sensor environment and the top 3 data questions you wish you could answer in real time. We'll send back a written audit covering integration feasibility per asset class, security considerations, and a phased rollout estimate.
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