From Siloed Systems to Compounding Impact
Disconnected operational data keeps insight fragmented, performance isolated, and growth constrained.
Pharma and specialty chemical manufacturers are under constant pressure to innovate faster, prove compliance, and scale with precision while navigating aging systems, global supply volatility, and strict regulatory demands.
Connect Every Function. Multiply Enterprise Value.
Before: Departmental Silos. Duplicated Effort.
Each team operates from its own tools, reports, and assumptions, often leading to misalignment and missed opportunities.
After: Unified Access. Unlimited Potential.
Matrikon Data Broker (MDB) unifies your OT data across lab, line, and enterprise systems. As more departments connect to this shared foundation, data becomes more powerful — driving faster decisions, cross-functional alignment, and exponential value across the organization.
Your Formula for Connected, Compliant Growth
Matrikon Data Broker doesn’t just connect IT and OT — it creates an enterprise-wide foundation that unlocks exponential value across manufacturing, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and beyond. From line to ledger, you’ll enable seamless, cross-functional improvement that keeps every business function aligned with your strategic direction.
One Small Step For Departments. One Giant Leap for Organizations.
When every team performs at its best, you accelerate product development, cut compliance risk, and build enterprise-wide momentum.
One Process. Total Oversight.
Siloed lab, plant, and IT data slows decisions, hides root causes, and stalls innovation. Matrikon Data Broker unifies LIMS, PLCs, DCS, historians, and IoT devices into one OT data layer that delivers contextualized insight across production and quality. This unified fabric accelerates product releases, reduces deviations, and creates a digital foundation for continuous improvement and growth.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming In: Manufacturing Gains
- 20–25% reduction in maintenance costs
- Faster response to process variation at the edge
- Live dashboards for production and performance
Zooming Out: Business Gains
- More accurate forecasting and budgeting
- Compliance-ready batch records across sites
- Accelerated new product introductions
Fortified From Within
Matrikon Data Broker uses encrypted data flows that rely on outbound-only connections from behind OT firewalls, enforcing cybersecurity best practices. It aligns with IEC 62443 and ISO 27001. With MDB, you get a secure foundation that protects systems, IP, and continuity without complicating architectures.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming In: IT & Cybersecurity Gains
- No open inbound OT network firewall ports or VPN tunnels
- Role-based access and full audit logs
- One framework to facilitate secure OT data sharing across OT and IT networks
Zooming Out: Business Gains
- Minimizes business risk
- Enhances compliance
- Reduces integration complexity
Flow Without Friction
When production data flows in real time, supplier performance, inventory use, and forecasting accuracy all improve. Matrikon Data Broker enables better decisions up and down the supply chain via real-time and historical consumption data visibility.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming in: Supply Chain & Procurement Gains
- Enables consumption and material traceability
- Simplifies supplier quality data integration
- Improves demand planning and inventory control
Zooming out: Business Gains
- Reduces working capital
- Bolsters QA initiatives
Lead With Proof
The Matrikon Data Broker cross-functional OT data foundation helps alleviate fragmented reporting by providing leadership tools with the OT data visibility needed to make confident, timely decisions across every level of the business.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming in: Leadership Gains
- Informs real-time cost accounting and performance tracking
- Offers an accurate reporting foundation for investors and leadership
- Helps unify KPIs for more aligned, strategic business decisions
Zooming out: Business Gains
- Enables financial visibility for smarter resource allocation
- Supports innovation investments with measurable ROI tracking
- Aligns departments under a shared set of real-time metrics
- Accelerates digital transformation with minimal disruption
Manufacturing
IT & Cybersecurity
Supply Chain & Procurement
Finance & Executive Leadership
One Process. Total Oversight.
Siloed lab, plant, and IT data slows decisions, hides root causes, and stalls innovation. Matrikon Data Broker unifies LIMS, PLCs, DCS, historians, and IoT devices into one OT data layer that delivers contextualized insight across production and quality. This unified fabric accelerates product releases, reduces deviations, and creates a digital foundation for continuous improvement and growth.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming In: Manufacturing Gains
- 20–25% reduction in maintenance costs
- Faster response to process variation at the edge
- Live dashboards for production and performance
Zooming Out: Business Gains
- More accurate forecasting and budgeting
- Compliance-ready batch records across sites
- Accelerated new product introductions
Fortified From Within
Matrikon Data Broker uses encrypted data flows that rely on outbound-only connections from behind OT firewalls, enforcing cybersecurity best practices. It aligns with IEC 62443 and ISO 27001. With MDB, you get a secure foundation that protects systems, IP, and continuity without complicating architectures.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming In: IT & Cybersecurity Gains
- No open inbound OT network firewall ports or VPN tunnels
- Role-based access and full audit logs
- One framework to facilitate secure OT data sharing across OT and IT networks
Zooming Out: Business Gains
- Minimizes business risk
- Enhances compliance
- Reduces integration complexity
Flow Without Friction
When production data flows in real time, supplier performance, inventory use, and forecasting accuracy all improve. Matrikon Data Broker enables better decisions up and down the supply chain via real-time and historical consumption data visibility.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming in: Supply Chain & Procurement Gains
- Enables consumption and material traceability
- Simplifies supplier quality data integration
- Improves demand planning and inventory control
Zooming out: Business Gains
- Reduces working capital
- Bolsters QA initiatives
Lead With Proof
The Matrikon Data Broker cross-functional OT data foundation helps alleviate fragmented reporting by providing leadership tools with the OT data visibility needed to make confident, timely decisions across every level of the business.
What It Might Look Like:
Zooming in: Leadership Gains
- Informs real-time cost accounting and performance tracking
- Offers an accurate reporting foundation for investors and leadership
- Helps unify KPIs for more aligned, strategic business decisions
Zooming out: Business Gains
- Enables financial visibility for smarter resource allocation
- Supports innovation investments with measurable ROI tracking
- Aligns departments under a shared set of real-time metrics
- Accelerates digital transformation with minimal disruption
The Result: A Competitive Edge You Can Scale
Transform complexity into clarity and accelerate innovation, strengthen compliance, and drive reliable scale.
Better Products
Catch process deviations early, apply timely corrections, and maintain batch integrity without guesswork.
Faster Timelines
Power real-time visibility across lab, line, and IT to accelerate investigations, batch releases, and time-to-market for new products.
Effortless Compliance
Start operating in a state of continuous readiness with role-based access, full traceability, and automated reporting.
Expedited Growth
Replicate success, accelerate tech transfers, and grow with confidence by standardizing how data flows across sites, teams, and partners.
Built for Regulated Innovation
See how connected OT data supports confident compliance, unlocks consistency, and unleashes sustainable scalability.
Trusted by Chemists. Built for Boards.
In pharma and specialty chemicals, there is no room for error. MDB provides the infrastructure needed to operate with confidence across products, plants, and partners.
Secured & Validated
Encryption, no open firewall ports, and 21 CFR Part 11 alignment built in
Lab-to-Plant Integration
Connect LIMS, DCS, utilities, and MES with no system rework
Smarter QA & Compliance
Stream live OT data into QA docs and audit workflows
Enterprise-Ready Architecture
Scalable across production models, partners, and global teams
Let's Get More Detailed
A Unified OT Data Layer (UODL) describes the concept of a foundational enterprise-wide OT data layer, which makes all of a company’s operational data seamlessly and securely available to everyone who needs it. Beyond aggregating OT data into a common address space (like a Universal Name Space (UNS) does), the UODL addresses all aspects of enabling, federating, and managing OT data access, its security, reliability, context, and security.
Matrikon’s UODL vision is to aggregate OT data on a single open-standard platform so that everyone across the enterprise can access meaningful data. This means all teams share the same real-time view of operations, avoiding miscommunication and speeding strategic decision-making.
MDB is built to handle high-data throughput environments. It supports hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with low latency, making it suitable for large-scale, real-time industrial data workloads.
Yes. Matrikon gives you visibility that fosters efficiency. Integrating OT data enterprise-wide provides the precise, real-time insights needed to reduce waste and energy use. For example, identifying underperforming assets quickly enables corrective actions that support sustainability goals.
Matrikon’s MDB platform is plug-and-play for OT data, so you don’t have to build connectivity from scratch. In practice, customers have linked multiple factories to the cloud in weeks rather than months. This means insights and automation come online faster, delivering ROI sooner on digital projects.
Embedding Matrikon connectivity makes your devices plug-and-play in any automation environment. You immediately gain features like secure OPC UA, MQTT, and data modeling. This added value means you can market your product as a complete solution, reducing integration effort for customers. In effect, your product stands out because it offers built-in data infrastructure that competitors may lack.
Success is measured by concrete improvements like reduced downtime, faster deployment times, or lower integration costs. For example, we might aim to cut data retrieval time by 90% or improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Meeting these KPIs shows the Matrikon platform is delivering on its promise.
Formulate Your Next Breakthrough
Use MDB-based secure OT data access to scale innovation and stay compliant — batch after batch.