Retrofit gateway · any machine → umati / OPC UA
A small box that speaks to the machine you already have — CAN, Modbus, serial, OPC UA — and republishes it as a standard OPC UA / umati server, live in your dashboards. No new controls. Nothing lost on the way. Minutes, not months.
The problem
Your newest cell speaks OPC UA. The 2010 press speaks Modbus. The 2003 laser speaks a serial dialect only its vendor remembers. To an MES — or a umati tender — they're invisible. Ripping out working controls to modernize each one is a months-long intervention in running production.
One box, every dialect
One driver per box, chosen in config. Six field protocols in — and a built-in simulator, so you can prove the whole chain on a laptop before a single cable is run.
Live · what the box actually does
Bridge polls the machine, maps raw registers to named fields, publishes them as a umati OPC UA server and pushes them to your office — while a store-and-forward journal guards the one thing that kills retrofits: the network dropping mid-shift.
Why it matters
umati / OPC UA for Machinery — the address space MES vendors and tenders now demand — bolted onto machines that were never designed to speak it.
Bridge only reads. The machine runs exactly as it does today — no re-commissioning, no safety re-approval, no risk to a line that already works.
Pick the protocol, map the tags, point at your dashboard. The built-in simulator lets you prove the full chain before you touch the real machine.
Runs self-contained on a DIN-rail RevPi / IOT2050, or as a Windows service on the PC already at the machine. No custom board, no cabinet rebuild.
Where it shows up
The same normalized stream feeds whichever view fits the job — from a full plant platform to a single screen at the machine.
Fleet OEE, SPC, part-genealogy traceability and alarms across every machine — the Industry 4.0 platform for running the whole shop.
A simple live dashboard for when you just want to see the machine, now — no rollout, no fleet, one honest window on the process.
Feed the machine's own modern operator screen from the same stream — the retrofit that also gives the operator a display worth looking at.
Next step
30 minutes, live — the whole chain runs against a built-in machine simulator, no hardware needed. Then we map it to your machines, your registers, your dashboards.