Automation
We are not an automation house. We are the layer around one
We advise on automation and we deliver whole solutions together with partners who build the mechanics and the control cabinets. Our part is the IT, software, and IoT architecture that decides whether the result is a connected line or an island.
Our scope
- 0
- Machines designed by us. That is the partner's job
- 1 spec
- Written before anyone quotes the build
- Your side
- Of the table, through build and handover
The machine is rarely what goes wrong. The layer around it is
Automation houses are good at what they do, and we do not compete with them: we do not design machines, write the motion control, or build panels. What repeatedly goes wrong sits one level up. The line gets commissioned and then nobody has specified how it reports, which signals leave the PLC, who owns the data model, how it reaches the ERP, or what happens when a second supplier's machine joins the same line. That is our scope. We specify it up front, sit on your side of the table while the automation partner builds, and make sure the finished cell is readable by the rest of the operation.
Where we sit in an automation project
Automation advisory
Whether to automate this step at all, what it is worth, and what has to be true first. Often the honest answer is that the process needs fixing before a robot is pointed at it.
Requirements and specification
We write the spec the automation partner quotes against, including the data and integration requirements that otherwise surface after commissioning as a change order.
IT, software and IoT architecture
Which signals leave the control system, in what structure, over which protocol, into which system, and who owns each layer. This is the part we deliver ourselves.
Partner selection and delivery
We bring in machine builders, integrators, and electrical partners we have worked with, and we stay on your side of the table through build, commissioning, and handover.
Connecting the new cell
A commissioned line that reports nothing is half a project. States, counters, and alarms come out of the new equipment and into the same structure as the rest of the site.
Documentation and ownership
Interfaces, data models, and access documented so your own team, or the next supplier, can work on it without reverse-engineering somebody's cabinet.
How it works
- 01
Advise and scope
What is worth automating, what it requires, and how the result has to fit the systems and the data you already have. Written down as a specification.
- 02
Deliver with partners
Machine builders and electrical partners build their part against that specification. We deliver the software, integration, and IoT layer, and hold the whole thing together.
- 03
Connect and hand over
The new equipment reports into the same data foundation as the rest of the site, documented so your team owns it afterwards.
Data platform
OptiPeople Data Platform architecture
Data leaves your production site over encrypted connections, gets tied to orders, shifts, machines and operators on the way in, and lands in a data container dedicated to your company. Your team, your systems, and your AI assistants all read from that same record.
Production site
Machines & PLCs
Production equipment and control systems
Data loggers
Sensor and process data capture
Operator devices
Tablets and shop floor registrations
Other sources
ERP, historians, files and third-party systems
OptiPeople Data Platform
Microsoft Azure
Ingest
Secure ingestion
Azure IoT Hub and secure endpoints, encrypted (TLS)
Process
Contextualization engine
Links data to orders, shifts, machines and operators
Data in contextProcessing engines
Real-time processing of events, telemetry and process data
Store
Customer data container
Configuration, transactions and telemetry, dedicated per customer
No shared dataProcess data store
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) for time-series process data
Access
Web portal
Browser-based access on portal.optipeople.dk
External API
REST API for data export and integration
MCP server
Secure access for AI assistants (MCP)
Users & systems
Your team
Operators, planners and management
Your systems & BI
ERP and MES integration, Power BI reporting
AI assistants
Claude, Copilot and other MCP-enabled tools
Microsoft Azure
Enterprise-grade cloud hosting
Encrypted end to end
TLS in transit, encrypted at rest
Full data isolation
A dedicated data container per customer
Controlled access
Authenticated and authorized endpoints only