The foundation tier of TA Factory. IndustrialBridge replaces the fragile in-house scripts, VBA bridges, and per-tag historians your plant has been getting by with — a single OPC ↔ SQL engine that finally makes plant data reliable, bi-directional, and queryable.
Every plant has them — VBA macros, in-house Python scripts, per-tag historian connectors, the engineer-who-left's spreadsheet bridge. They break in monsoon, they break on patch Tuesday, they break the moment that one engineer takes leave. IndustrialBridge is the engine that finally replaces them.
Modern OPC UA PLCs and decade-old OPC DA servers (Matrikon, RSLinx, classic KEPServerEX) coexist in most plants. Most bridges handle one or the other — IndustrialBridge handles both, in the same configuration.
Reading tags into a database is the easy half. Pushing recipes, setpoints and commands back to the PLC with confirmation and handshake — that's where in-house bridges fall over. IndustrialBridge does it as a first-class capability.
When the database goes down or the network blinks, an in-house bridge silently drops data and nobody knows until the audit. IndustrialBridge caches every row to a crash-safe local store and replays when connectivity returns.
Drag tags from the OPC browser into transaction groups. Auto-create database tables. Test, deploy and version — all from a browser, no Windows tooling.
Connect modern OPC UA PLCs (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Rockwell) and legacy OPC DA servers (Matrikon, RSLinx, classic KEPServerEX) in a single project. Drag tags from the browser into transaction groups.
Auto-create database tables. Push recipes, setpoints and commands from the database back to the PLC with confirmation handshake. Real two-way integration, not just data logging.
Math, string, conditional, date, type conversion, bitwise. Plus inline SQL queries. Scale 4–20 mA signals, decode PLC status words, compute OEE, build batch IDs — without writing PLC code or custom .NET.
When the database goes down, every row is cached to a crash-safe local SQLite store and replayed when the network recovers. Your operators never know there was an outage.
Generate banded PDF and HTML reports with multi-level grouping, calculated fields, and parameterised SQL. No Crystal Reports, no SSRS, no third-party BI tool needed.
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, TimescaleDB. Pick what your IT team already runs — IndustrialBridge speaks all of them.
IndustrialBridge is the data layer that SyncPlant and TruAdaptiv Copilot build on. Deploying it well means the next tier is already ready to receive everything you build.
Configuration lives in one portable file. Move it between environments, version-control it, ship it to another plant with one copy.
OPC browse, tag selection, transaction-group design and deploy — all from a browser. No Windows tooling, no thick client.
Runs on your plant LAN. No data leaves the perimeter. Pairs naturally with the next two tiers, which also stay on-prem.
The clean, normalised data IndustrialBridge produces is exactly what SyncPlant and TruAdaptiv Copilot were designed to consume. No re-platforming required.
IndustrialBridge is ready to deploy as the foundation of your TA Factory journey. Book a discovery call to walk through the engine and scope a deployment.