Mining OT/IT Convergence Architecture
An anonymized Larkinized engagement illustrating EA value in energy.
Client Context
A mining company converging OT data from pits and processing plants with corporate analytics. Larkinized engaged with CIO and business sponsors across energy.
Challenge
Unsafe ad hoc data diodes; historians inaccessible to corporate BI.
Approach
Purdue model alignment; zone segmentation; industrial data hub pattern.
Architecture Decisions
One-way historians to cloud; OT DMZ standard; asset tag taxonomy.
Outcomes
Safety incidents from IT probes eliminated; production KPIs trusted.
Lessons Learned
Never bridge OT without operations-signed network design.
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