At SPS 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany, TTTech Industrial will once again focus on secure IIoT solutions with the open automation platform Nerve at its booth #230 in hall 5. With MVTech and 40Factory, two new partners of the ecosystem will be introduced.
In 2023, TTTech Industrial became one of the first Austrian companies to be certified by TÜV Austria according to the industrial cybersecurity standard IEC 62443-4-1. This subnorm forms the basis for secure product development and product lifecycles. Certification of the IIoT platform Nerve according to IEC 62443-4-2, which focuses on IT security for industrial automation systems, is expected to be finished by the end of the year.
Screenshot of part of the TTTech Industrial subpage
“We are working closely with TÜV to meet all requirements. Machine manufacturers that choose an IIoT platform certified according to IEC 62443-4-2 that provides the aforementioned mechanisms, have access to a strong security “toolbox”.
They can quickly make their existing software modules secure in accordance with IEC 62443 and ultimately design their digital product portfolio in compliance with the CRA (Cyber Resilience Act, editor’s note),” says Herbert Hufnagl, Member of the Executive Board at TTTech Industrial.
Nerve is a modular edge computing platform for digitalization projects and IIoT applications in mechanical engineering. It is represented in the Smart Automation market overview and has its own additional page there.
With Nerve, customers can host applications and software as Docker containers or virtual machines, as well as collect, visualize and pre-process data in real time before sending it to their cloud. Updates are managed and deployed via a central management system.
Nerve is developed based on the principles of IEC 62443 and integrates all important cybersecurity features: all connections to the Nerve Management System are secured and role-based access control with MFA and central update mechanisms for applications and firmware are available. (Legacy) applications can be isolated from other applications and managed as virtual machines (VMs) or Docker containers. GDPR-compliant hosting is provided on Microsoft Azure in Germany.
At SPS, TTTech Industrial will once again show a demo of Nerve, where visitors can familiarize themselves with the platform’s features and functions.
Nerve is platform-agnostic and can be run on any Intel-powered industrial PC (IPC). TTTech Industrial provides consulting and integration advice for hardware from different vendors, but it also offers customers a one-stop-shop solution with TTTech Industrial’s new IPC, MFN 200.
IPC MFN 200 (Copyright TTTech Industrial)
At SPS, TTTech Industrial will be introducing two new partners in its ecosystem, MVTec and 40Factory, and demonstrate how their applications can be securely integrated into Nerve: MERLIC from MVTec as a manageable application on Edge for the efficient creation of machine vision applications; and MAT from 40Factory as a supported application for Nerve that combines asset management of machines and systems with powerful visualization and analysis of machine data.