Industry 4.0 Solutions for Modern Manufacturing - tomsautomation

Industry 4.0 Solutions for Modern Manufacturing

Welcome to the Future of Manufacturing

At Tom's Automation, we specialize in harnessing the power of Industry 4.0 to revolutionize your manufacturing processes.

Industry 4.0 represents the fourth industrial revolution, a technological leap that integrates smart technology, automation, and data-driven decision-making into every aspect of production.

Our solutions always have good OT foundations therefore are designed to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and provide real-time insights, helping your business stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.

Our Expertise

We provide comprehensive Industry 4.0 connectivity solutions that include:  

- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Connect your machinery, sensors, and devices to a central network, enabling seamless communication and real-time monitoring.

- Smart Manufacturing: Advanced automation systems that give the ground to integrate machine learning and AI to optimize production lines, reduce waste, and improve quality.   

We can utilize third party software to integrate and provide:

- Predictive Maintenance solution: We can provide tools to utilize data analytics to predict and prevent equipment failures, minimizing downtime and extending the life of your assets.    

- Big Data Analytics: Leverage data from all your OT/IT systems to gain actionable insights, enhance decision-making, and drive continuous improvement.

- Digital Twin Technology: Create virtual replicas of your physical assets to simulate processes, diagnose issues, and plan upgrades without disrupting your operations or just make working demo.

The integration process

Everything starts with hardware interfaces like simple hardwired signals, RS232 or RS485/422 serial connections, protocol signal converters and ethernet connectivity. From communication protocols perspective in OT world the mechanisms of OPC are still in use. The OPC stands for Open Platform Communications. Throuhg the years standard has became stable and robust and was expandinging functionalities to get to shape of classic  OPC2.0 (DA, HDA, A&E, Batch, etc.). As PLC have been evolving, the OPC UA (Unified Architecture) started to grow to provide more secure, open and plaform future-proof standard.

Most typical examples of OPC drivers incorporated into comercial packages (like e.g. IGS, Kepware, SCADA systems) are:

- Modbus TCP/IP, RTU, ASCII, Plus,

- Simatic TCP/IP, Profibus DP, MPI,

- GE SRTP, SNP/SNPX, EGD

- Allen-Bradley Ethernet, DF1,

- Omron HostLink, FINS, NJ,

- Industrial Ethernet,

- MTConnect

- Matrikon, etc.

In addtion to OT standard drivers, we have the knowledge of protocols to connect operations at IT levels: like MQTT, HTTP/REST, AlwaysOn. We offer help with message formatting for client agents (like hiveMQ) to support requirements of misc. data modeling (eg. JSON, XML, CSV and other custom models).

Transforming Manufacturing with Advanced Technology

Industry 4.0 is not just about technology; it's about transforming your entire approach to manufacturing.

Our solutions empower you to:  

- Boost Productivity: Automate repetitive tasks and optimize workflows to increase throughput and reduce operational costs.   

- Enhance Flexibility: Quickly adapt to market demands with scalable solutions that allow for mass customization and faster time-to-market.    

- Improve Quality: Implement real-time quality control systems that detect defects early and ensure that every product meets the highest standards.   

- Reduce Waste: Minimize material waste and energy consumption through intelligent resource management and precise process control.

Why Choose Tom's Automation?

Examples of our integrated CNC machinery covers discrete production systems with CNC machines like:

- Punching machines (Trumpf, Amada, EHRT)
- Bending machines (Trumpf, LVD, Amada, Bystronic)
- Milling machines (Haas, Dugard, Eagle, Blohm)

- Press brakes (Safan Darley)
- Turning machines (Citizen)
- Moulding machines (Engel, Arburg)
- Grinding (Magerle)
- EDM (+GF+)

and others - like automated warehouse, process heaters or product filling or painting lines - based on typical PLC/HMI/SCADA OT systems.

Proven Expertise: Back in 2016 we've started the journey of the Industrial IoT integrations. As a part of the international team, we have started deploing early stage of Digital Thread in local client factory. The goal was to employ data and analytics across the complete product lifecycle. Since then we have took part in number of projects where we were developing PLC code and building connectivity using miscellaneous interfacing options. Electrical skills and "hands on" experience that we have, allowed us to safely figure out the ways of setting machine OT to IT connectivity. In our approach EU Machine Directives and CE markings were never violated.

Innovative Solutions: The up-to-date technology that we contnously follow and improve, sets the standard for our Industry 4.0 implementation.    

Customer Focused: We prioritize your business goals, providing customized solutions that drive tangible results.   

End-to-End Support: From consultation to implementation and beyond, we support you every step of the way.

Partner with Us

At Tom's Automation, we understand that every manufacturing process is unique. That's why we offer tailored solutions that align with your specific needs and objectives. Partner with us to unlock the full potential of Industry 4.0, and lead your industry into the future.  

I believe - with +100 already connected machines - this IIoT journey has just started...

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Page updated: 2026.06