Network Automation for Manufacturing
Your Smart Factory is Ready. Is Your Network?
Industry 4.0 demands a self-driving network.
NetBrain automates your IT/OT foundation—bridging cyber and physical systems to eliminate downtime and secure your digital transformation.
CHALLENGES
Maintaining Consistent Uptime Across Production Facilities
Modern manufacturing networks are complex, distributed ecosystems with critical uptime requirements. Manual processes simply can’t keep up, leading to:
- Prolonged production outages: Slow, manual troubleshooting increases MTTR, directly affecting manufacturing output
- Risky changes: Error-prone manual upgrades lead to costly production downtime
- Alert fatigue: Thousands of generic alerts daily make it hard to prioritize real production issues
- IT/OT silos: Separate teams and tools create finger-pointing and delayed resolution
OUR SOLUTIONS
AI-Integrated Network Automation for Your Smart Factory
Complete Cyber-Physical Visibility
NetBrain provides the dynamic digital twin of your entire converged network, delivering the automation and visibility needed for true operational excellence in the Industry 4.0 era.
Automatically discover and document every device—from cloud gateways to the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) sensors on the line—on an always-up-to-date, interactive map.
- See Dependencies: Visually trace paths between enterprise IT and production OT systems
- Eliminate IT/OT Silos: Create a single source of truth for both IT and OT teams
- Real-Time Mapping: Dynamic maps that help you troubleshoot in real time
AI-Driven Troubleshooting
Replace manual CLI with intelligent workflows that use one-click runbooks. Empower your team with AI speed and rich network data to diagnose issues in minutes, not hours.
- Runbook Templates: Execute automated checks for common production line issues fast with AI
- Live Path Analysis: Instantly validate connectivity between any two devices, from a PLC to a SCADA historian
- 90%+ MTTR Reduction: Lower troubleshooting time for network issues and prove network innocence
Proactive Network Security for Your Connected Ecosystem
Continuously monitor for changes and enforce policies across your manufacturing zones, enabling decentralized decisions with centralized control.
- Protected Network Change: Get instant alerts on unauthorized modifications to critical devices
- AI-Generated Audits: Generate compliance reports for standards like IEC 62443 in seconds
- 95% faster security mitigation in production networks
Real-World Manufacturing Impact
| Use Case | The Problem | The NetBrain Solution | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensure Production Line Uptime | A packaging line halts unexpectedly. Manual troubleshooting across siloed teams takes hours, costing thousands per minute. | An OT engineer runs an intelligent “Line Health Check.” NetBrain’s no-code automation tests connectivity and device health, pinpointing a misconfigured VLAN in minutes using the live digital twin. | 90%+ reduction in troubleshooting time; 30% of incidents fully automated. |
| Secure the Industrial DMZ | Ensuring the firewall between the enterprise and the smart factory is configured to policy is a manual, error-prone audit. | NetBrain provides continuous compliance monitoring, visualizes all permitted IIoT traffic, and instantly detects policy violations that could lead to a cyber-physical attack. | 95% faster security mitigation; automated IEC 62443 compliance reporting. |
| Validate Network Changes for Agile Production | Re-tooling for a new, customized product line requires network changes that risk causing unforeseen downtime. | Use NetBrain to take a pre-change network benchmark and model impact using intent logic, ensuring safe network changes as quickly as your production needs. | 6,394 engineering hours saved every 6 months; 43% of incidents automatically triaged. |
WHY NETBRAIN
Empower Your Team with Proactive Automation
NetBrain’s no-code automation platform automatically discovers your entire manufacturing environment and turns tribal knowledge into executable, dynamic workflows.
- Network Health Checks: Interface state, routing, SD-WAN/LAN, power supply, HSRP state
- Golden Engineering Studio: Specific checks for manufacturing reliability
- Endpoint Analysis: Query and generate endpoint information through IP/MAC tables on manufacturing switches
Industry 4.0 v.s. NetBrain
| Challenge | Industry 3.0 (Automated) | Industry 4.0 (Intelligent with NetBrain) |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Static, outdated Visio diagrams | Dynamic Network Digital Twin that updates in real-time |
| Troubleshooting | Hours of manual CLI commands | AI-assisted Runbooks that diagnose problems in minutes |
| Security & Compliance | Periodic, manual firewall audits | Continuous monitoring and 3rd-party-integrated misconfiguration alerts |
| IT/OT Collaboration | Siloed teams, finger-pointing | A single source of truth and lower MTTI |
| Change Management | Error-prone manual processes | Automated validation and stateful rollback capabilities |
"NetBrain is the central nervous system for our Industry 4.0 initiative. It cut our network troubleshooting time by over 80%, turning a potential $50,000 downtime event into a minor, five-minute blip."
"The automated documentation and compliance reporting have been invaluable for our IEC 62443 audits. It's the foundation for a secure and connected smart factory."
"NetBrain would have shown the disabled path to the manufacturing firewall and the port that was down within 15 minutes, preventing a 5-hour outage."
Ready to Build Your Industry 4.0 Foundation?
Stop letting network complexity dictate your production schedule. See how NetBrain delivers the autonomous network required for a resilient, secure, and intelligent smart factory.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is network automation for manufacturing?
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Network automation applies AI and no-code workflows to operate, secure, and troubleshoot the converged IT/OT network that supports smart factories.
- How does NetBrain help reduce downtime in manufacturing?
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NetBrain automates health checks, path analysis, and fault isolation—cutting MTTR by 90%+ and preventing outages through proactive detection.
- Can NetBrain map both IT and OT networks together?
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Yes. NetBrain visualizes switches, PLCs, SCADA systems, IIoT sensors, firewalls, and cloud/edge gateways in one unified digital twin.
- Does NetBrain support Industry 4.0 standards like IEC 62443?
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NetBrain continuously validates network changes, enforces segmentation, and generates IEC 62443-aligned audit reports.
- What types of manufacturing environments does NetBrain support?
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Used across automotive, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, medical devices, industrial equipment, and high-tech manufacturing.
- How does NetBrain integrate with existing monitoring and SIEM tools?
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NetBrain can trigger automation from alerts in tools like Splunk, ServiceNow, and SIEM platforms to accelerate remediation.