How versioning helps 
with disaster recovery 

Each hour of downtime costs manufacturers productivity and money. When disaster strikes – be it equipment failure, cyberattacks, power outages or a natural disaster – you need a solution to recover quickly to the correct version. Managing versions in octoplant helps with troubleshooting and eases the burden of documentation and standardizes change logging. 

Reduce downtime and ensure all necessary and correct program data is available at your fingertips with octoplant’s instant recovery feature. 

  • Ensure that production systems can be reset to a previously functional version, quickly and accurately
  • Enable pattern-based or individual device recoveries 
  • Restore not only the last program, but also earlier system statuses if necessary

octoplant instant recovery: 
key OT disaster recovery features

Automatic backups and 
version control 

Create automatic backups. Then, access the latest versions of your device configurations instantly.

Centrally manage all
versions and backups

Easily organize program backups to immediately locate and deploy the latest, correct version.

Select and restore 
desired backup

Restore device configuration to the version you need from the list of available backups.

PLC code replacements

Make immediate adjustments to your control systems, empowering your operations to stay agile and responsive.

Uninterrupted operations 

No matter the disruption, octoplant ensures fast restoration, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

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With the solution from AMDT, we always know the current status of our production plants. It makes our work easier, saves us time and gives us end-to-end clarity on what changes have been made. You can’t get better quality than that!

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Quick and easy 
disaster recovery

When you connect your devices to octoplant, backups are automatically created according to your defined schedule and specifications. In the event of a shutdown, you can restore the correct backup onto the device and resume production at the push of a button. octoplant provides you with the information you need to determine which version to restore onto the target device.

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Whether your facility has five devices or 5,000, octoplant reduces unplanned downtime impact and provides a simple, repeatable method for rapid recovery of the correct version of the program.

Restore production 
at the push of a button

Whether your facility has five devices or 5,000, octoplant reduces unplanned downtime impact and provides a simple, repeatable method for rapid recovery of the correct version of the program.

Structured archiving 
of all program changes

octoplant manages all program changes in a standardized and automated method. Quickly gain insights into who made which changes, when, and why through each device’s version history analysis and configuration settings.

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octoplant manages all program changes in a standardized and automated method. Quickly gain insights into who made which changes, when, and why through each device’s version history analysis and configuration settings.

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octoplant provides all users with access to the most up-to-date versions of configuration and device settings, ensuring alignment and cohesiveness across your teams. 

  • Unified access
  • Increased efficiency 
  • Synchronization

Promote a collaborative 
manufacturing environment 

octoplant provides all users with access to the most up-to-date versions of configuration and device settings, ensuring alignment and cohesiveness across your teams. 

  • Unified access
  • Increased efficiency 
  • Synchronization

Remain compliant 
with VDA 6.x standards 

octoplant ensures your processes align with rigorous industry standards, minimizing risk and maintaining the highest levels of quality and safety.

  • Automated compliance checks 
  • Audit trails 
  • Continuous monitoring 
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octoplant ensures your processes align with rigorous industry standards, minimizing risk and maintaining the highest levels of quality and safety.

  • Automated compliance checks 
  • Audit trails 
  • Continuous monitoring 
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Frequently asked questions 
about OT disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is the ability for a manufacturing system to get back up and running after an emergency, such as errors, damage and cyberattacks. Unscheduled downtime for a production system is costly. It is critically important for manufacturers to reduce the chances for and impact of unplanned downtime and also have the ability to quickly recover and get production running again.

Versioning is the consistent logging of changes in an automated system. When all versions are captured, systems can easily be restored in the case of disaster. 

It takes just a few easy steps to recover an automated backup or previous project configuration from the latest checked-in version and load it onto the target device.

The octoplant system does not write directly to devices, so it cannot restore a backup onto a device without user engagement with the system. However, you can leverage octoplant’s scripting functionality to connect to an existing solution, in which case the octoplant system would serve as the data supplier. Scripting is a special functionality in octoplant that can be discussed with AUVESY-MDT.

octoplant provides the project files and configuration information needed for instant recovery in one centralized environment, which drastically minimizes time-consuming search and validation efforts as well as extended downtime.

Yes. Two versions can be compared, but that’s not all: different historical versions can be compared within or across devices, or compared against the most recent backups. 

A project may not require that every single backup taken from a device be saved. However, octoplant can be configured to check for and report changes to specific, operation-critical configuration parameters so each backup saved meets your safety and qualitative expectations.

Resources

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REVOLUTIONIZING STIHL MAINTENANCE

Discover how STIHL transformed production efficiency with AMDT version control. Gain insight into mastering maintenance and data management.

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The complexity of today's systems brings new challenges and tasks to production managers everywhere. As a result, costs due to business and operational disruptions continue to increase year over year. Learn how to overcome this complexity in our whitepaper.

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