Many personas play a role in optimizing a production process. Each has different requirements to fulfill their role.

As a Plant Manager I want to enable my Data Scientist to be able to access data from my assets, so this data can be analyzed and used to optimize production.

As a Data Scientist, I want to be able to discover my assets and their associated devices that may provide useful data for analysis, so these devices can be further queried for the data they may contain.

As a Product Developer, I want to expose only data that are useful for optimizing the specialized asset , so data collection is simplified for customers and plant operators.

As a Business Manager at a Device Vendor, I want to enable my Data Scientist to be able to access some data from my Devices , so that my Data Scientists/specialists can make recommendations that result in operational improvements.

As a Plant Manager, I want to only expose data that will not disrupt the operation of my assets , so that unnecessary downtime can be avoided.

As a Process Engineer, I want to assign data reading resources , so that there is adequate bandwidth for operating my facility and providing data for analytics.

As a Security Officer, I want to guarantee that only authorized connections can be made to my assets and only authorized devices can be discovered and authorized data can be read.

What is important is enabling these actors to have access to data contained in their assets. The “shape” or context of the data is also very important to the value of the data. More context makes it easier to provide valuable insights. Services or mechanisms must discover devices on the network, pull information from the data available, and present that data in a standardized way to applications on-premise and on the cloud.