Case Study: a heavy equipment manufacturer accelerates IIoT rollout with CloudRail

Heavy Equipment Manufacturer Accelerates Multi Site IIoT Roll-Out with CloudRail

CloudRail worked with a heavy equipment manufacturer, a Fortune 500 company with factories around the world, that wanted to digitize its products and plants with IIoT and machine learning. The company struggled to collect shop-floor data because of heterogeneous machines, many communication protocols, high customization needs, and strict IT security requirements that made a large-scale rollout difficult.

Using CloudRail’s plug-and-play IIoT connectivity and device management platform integrated with AWS, the manufacturer standardized machine connectivity across legacy and new equipment, from retrofitting brownfield assets to connecting OPC-UA machines. CloudRail enabled rollouts in hours instead of weeks, accelerated implementation by 20x, supported centralized provisioning and monitoring, and met security needs with end-to-end encryption, TPM, firewalls, remote firmware updates, and PKI integration, improving ROI across multiple IIoT projects.