Why industry is different
On an industrial estate, safety is not a policy — it is engineered into the plant itself, and it outranks everything. Where corporate IT measures success in uptime SLAs, a process operator measures it in safety integrity levels and the integrity of a safety case that may carry major-accident-hazard obligations. The control systems that keep a plant within safe limits were never designed to meet the internet, and the cost of a careless connection is measured in far more than downtime.
Yet the pressure to converge is real. Engineering wants plant-floor data in the cloud for predictive maintenance and analytics; the business wants modern collaboration across office, engineering, and field. The job is to deliver both without ever letting an IT decision reach across into operational technology — crossing the OT/IT boundary deliberately, in one direction, with evidence.
So we treat Microsoft cloud as the corporate and engineering collaboration layer that sits beside the operational networks, never on top of them. Telemetry is lifted up for analytics; control stays where it belongs. The safety case remains intact, and an auditor can see exactly where the line is drawn.
What we deliver
Corporate + engineering Modern Workplace
- Office, plant, and field-worker Teams patterns
- Engineering document control on SharePoint
- Shift-handover and permit-to-work workflows in Power Platform
OT/IT convergence — done safely
- Defender for IoT inside the engineering network
- OT-aware identity, segmentation, and conditional access
- Safety-rated change control aligned with operational change boards
Sentry XDR for industrial estates
- OT-aware playbooks; IR rehearsed against ICS scenarios
- Threat-hunt curated against industrial threat groups
- Quarterly board pack — risks, trends, peer benchmark
InterReality Labs — XR for the plant floor
- Bespoke Unity simulators for high-risk, high-cost procedures — operators rehearse on a virtual line before touching the real one
- Hands-free, holographic work instructions overlaid onto equipment, cutting errors and time-to-competence for new staff
- Remote Assist linking scarce specialists to the line in real time, reducing engineer call-outs and travel
- Spatial overlays of live IoT and sensor data onto machinery, plus ARMR rugged hardware for the shop floor — delivered for global aerospace and automotive manufacturers
Industry & Advisory — safety-aware assurance
- OT/IT security-architecture review across the OT/IT boundary
- Security and OT gap assessment for industrial estates
- Independent assurance kept separate from the teams that deliver
Anchor outcomes
Accreditations & frameworks
The accreditations and partner statuses SCG.World holds — the same set listed across the site.
- Microsoft AI Partner
- Cyber Essentials Plus
- G-Cloud 13
- Digital Outcomes 7
- Living Wage
- Cisco Partner
- Lenovo Partner
- HPE Partner