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Manufacturing Line Integration

Machine-level visibility across legacy production islands on a medical device manufacturing floor.

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Brought legacy manufacturing systems on Vistakon’s production lines into an integrated IT/OT environment. Vistakon, Johnson & Johnson’s vision care business, is a high-volume medical device manufacturer, and its lines had accumulated systems that each held their own data and spoke to nothing else.

The work was machine-level visibility across the lines and interconnection between the islands, so process and production detail could be seen centrally and acted on rather than read off an individual machine by someone standing in front of it.

Applied in

  • Enterprise Agreement Pursuit — Global AutomotivePursuit March–April 2025 · headquarters session May 2025 · relationship carried forwardCisco services subject-matter expert on a bid for a global automotive manufacturer's North American arm — a two-day clarification window, an affiliate's engineering bench as the differentiator, a loss, and a headquarters meeting four weeks later.
  • Vistakon Manufacturing Line IT/OT Integration2022–2023Legacy production systems on a medical device manufacturing floor brought into one interconnected environment.

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  • IoT
  • Internet of Things
  • Industrial IoT
  • IIoT
  • M2M
  • machine to machine

Instrumented plant, metering, roadside and building devices reporting over a network — the practice the term was coined for, two decades before it had the name.