Your operation already generates the data, but most of it is lost before it reaches anywhere it can be analyzed.
Historians and HMIs tell you what happened on one line. We connect the plant floor to the rest of the business — Ignition, MQTT and a unified namespace at the edge, correlated into meaningful events and streamed into your lakehouse. Delivered near-shore by senior architects across the US and Latin America.
The plant floor answers one line at a time.
Every machine on the floor is already producing data. It lands in a historian, drives an HMI, and stops there — trapped in the line that produced it, in a format nothing downstream can read. So the questions that matter across an operation go unanswered, and the people who could act on them are reading yesterday's spreadsheet. Connecting that data is an architecture problem, not a dashboard problem.
Five capabilities, from sensor to lakehouse.
Ignition / Inductive Automation
SCADA and IIoT platform work on Ignition — gateways, Perspective HMI, tag historians and edge deployments, built by certified architects.
- Gateways & Perspective
- Tag historian
- Ignition Edge
MQTT, Sparkplug B & Unified Namespace
A single, self-describing source of plant truth — broker-based messaging and a unified namespace so every system reads the same live state.
- MQTT brokers
- Sparkplug B payloads
- Unified namespace
Proprietary Edge Solution
Our own platform for the industrial edge: multi-protocol ingest, in-memory event correlation, a local historian, an operator HMI and cloud distribution in a single node. It runs alongside your current edge platform — Ignition Edge included — or replaces it outright.
- Real-time correlation
- Local historian
- Models at the edge
- Built and supported by 4E
Edge-to-Lakehouse Telemetry
Plant telemetry streamed continuously into a governed lakehouse — where OEE, predictive maintenance and cross-site analytics finally become possible.
- Streaming ingestion
- OEE & asset analytics
- Predictive maintenance
OPC UA & IEC 61131-3 Controls
Down to the controller: OPC UA connectivity, PLC programming to IEC 61131-3, and the line and device integration that makes the rest of it possible.
- OPC UA connectivity
- IEC 61131-3 / PLC
- Device & line integration
The 4E Proprietary Edge Solution.
A plant floor produces far more raw signal than anyone can use. Shipping all of it upstream is expensive, slow, and still leaves someone to work out what it meant.
Our edge correlation engine does that work where the data is produced. It watches raw sensor streams in real time and turns them into meaningful events — so what reaches your network, your historians and your lakehouse is already the thing you wanted to know, not the thousands of readings behind it.
Around that core, the platform covers the rest of the edge: multi-protocol ingest down to the controller, a local historian with retention you set, an operator HMI and cloud distribution. It is the complete edge from one vendor — and where an edge is already installed, it works alongside it rather than asking you to rip anything out.
The path runs back the other way too: analytical models trained on your lakehouse execute at the edge, and the platform can act on the equipment over a governed route — with limits, permissives evaluated against the real state of the plant, and an audit record on every write.
The platform is our own technology. The solution is that platform plus the senior architects who design your edge around it — and the team that supports both long after commissioning.
From sensor to decision, and back.
Two starting points, one platform. If you already have an edge in place, it stays and we widen what it can do; if you don't, the platform is the whole edge. Either way, the models trained on your lakehouse come back down and run where the work happens.
From plant floor to operating platform.
Understand
We walk the floor and the systems already there — controllers, historians, networks — before proposing anything.
Architect
Senior architects design the edge and integration architecture, from device connectivity to the lakehouse.
Deliver
We implement, integrate and commission — on real equipment, with the plant still running.
Operate
Managed services keep the edge estate healthy, monitored and supported after commissioning.
Fortune 100 operatorsDelivered for Fortune 100 oil & gas operators and enterprise clients across Latin America and the United States.
20+ yearsTwo decades architecting, building and operating enterprise and industrial platforms.
Certified in-houseInductive Automation, AWS, Azure, Databricks and Snowflake certifications held by our own architects.
Industrial IoT — answered.
What is a unified namespace?
A unified namespace is a single, self-describing source of live plant truth. Instead of every system polling every device in its own format, each system publishes and subscribes to one shared structure — so adding a consumer no longer means building another point-to-point integration.
Why correlate events at the edge instead of in the cloud?
Because most raw sensor data is not worth moving. Correlating at the edge means the network carries meaningful events rather than millions of readings, decisions can be made without a round trip, and the plant keeps working when the link does not.
Can you work with our existing SCADA and historians?
Yes. Most of our work is brownfield. We connect to the controllers, SCADA and historians already installed — commonly over OPC UA — and add the edge and integration layers around them rather than asking you to rip anything out.
How does plant data end up useful to the business?
We stream correlated plant events into a governed lakehouse, where operations data sits alongside the rest of the enterprise. That is what makes cross-site OEE, predictive maintenance and real financial analysis of production possible.
Let's connect the plant floor to the business.
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