- Automotive & mobility
- Mechanical & plant engineering
- Electrical engineering & electronics
- Manufacturing
- Paper & packaging
- Defense & security industry
Industry & Manufacturing
Your production has grown over decades. Plants run longer than software, remote access connects systems that were originally never meant to talk to each other, and customers demand proof long before awarding contracts. At the same time, your products themselves are becoming more digital. As a result, production, IT and product security meet at more and more points.
This gap between two correct answers is the real finding. It arises where production and IT look at the same company from different logics. For leadership, what counts is therefore not which view wins, but whether a shared picture of the actual dependencies emerges from it.
What makes this environment challenging.
Industrial companies frequently move in several worlds at once: production that has to run reliably, requirements from the supply chain and growing regulation of connected products. Security is thus no longer only a question of operations, but more and more often the prerequisite for being able to deliver and sell. We encounter three patterns in this environment again and again.
Plants outlast their software
A production line is often built for twenty years, software for a few years. In many operations, both logics have to work at the same time.
Maintenance windows set the pace
Production cannot be stopped at will when technology or regulation demands a change. New requirements therefore usually have to fit into existing plants, maintenance windows and production targets.
Security becomes part of the contract
What used to be decided internally is today increasingly written into contracts, supplier requirements and product specifications. The level of security thus influences whom a company can supply and which products it can place on the market.
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