
Siemens is expanding the capabilities of its Industrial Edge ecosystem through a partnership with industrial software company HighByte. The collaboration enables customers to seamlessly connect, contextualize, and transform data from both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) sources, helping them get value from industrial data.
HighByte Intelligence Hub is an industrial data operations software solution designed specifically for data modeling, orchestration, and governance. It is now available as an official application on the Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace. Customers can efficiently consume and reuse industrial data sets from HighByte to build AI models, agents, and applications at scale, using Siemens’ recently announced Intelligence Center X software.
HighByte Intelligence Hub runs natively on Industrial Edge, where application and configuration management is handled. The solution integrates directly with Industrial Edge's Connectivity Suite, enabling users to connect to a wide variety of OT data sources, including PLCs, SCADA systems, and industrial protocols. HighByte's DataOps functionalities extend this connectivity to IT data sources, creating a unified data infrastructure that spans the entire production operation.
A key capability of the integrated solution is data contextualization and pipelining. Using HighByte Intelligence Hub, users can apply flexible and scalable transformation rules to process data from multiple sources across IT and OT domains, adding business context and converting raw operational data into meaningful information. These contextualized datasets can then be made available to IT services in a transparent and scalable manner, with HighByte serving as a true Unified Namespace provider that standardizes data access across the organization. Beyond making OT data available to IT systems, HighByte Intelligence Hub can also be used to adjust machine setpoints in a secure and reliable way by sending commands from IT data sources, such as manufacturing execution systems (MES), back to PLCs via Industrial Edge's Connectivity Suite.