Strengthening Cybersecurity Through Clearer Architecture: How Piab Group Built a Resilient Foundation
In today’s digital manufacturing landscape, cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought – it is a strategic priority that directly affects resilience, innovation, and customer trust. For Piab Group, a global leader in industrial automation, the challenge was to strengthen its cybersecurity posture while keeping innovation and operational efficiency on track across its worldwide operations.
With solutions powering factories, logistics centers, and robotics systems, Piab operates in a highly connected environment where data, applications, and infrastructure must work together seamlessly. As the company continued to grow, so did the complexity of its IT landscape. Gaining a clear view of how everything fit together became essential for managing risk and making confident decisions.
The Complexity Behind Smarter Automation
Piab’s global footprint meant that systems, processes, and data flows were distributed across multiple locations and business units. That scale brought opportunity, but it also introduced new cybersecurity questions: Where are the real gaps? Which capabilities are mature, and which need investment? How do changes in one area affect the broader environment?
The team needed more than static diagrams or isolated documents. They required a dynamic, living view of how technology, processes, and people intersect – and how each change might ripple across the organization. Without that clarity, prioritizing cybersecurity initiatives and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders would remain difficult.
Turning Complexity Into Clarity
That is where BlueDolphin, ValueBlue’s Enterprise Architecture platform, entered the picture. Piab’s Enterprise Architecture team used it as the backbone for a new cybersecurity initiative, focused on bringing structure and transparency to a historically complex area.
One of the most important steps was creating a reference architecture for cybersecurity. Instead of scattered information and one-off assessments, Piab established a unified model of its cybersecurity capabilities across domains such as data, applications, endpoints, networks, and perimeters. This made it far easier to see not just what existed, but how mature each capability really was.
By visualizing this model and applying a “heatmap” view, the team could quickly highlight strengths, gaps, and areas needing attention. Conversations shifted from abstract risk to concrete, prioritized initiatives that everyone could see and understand.
A Foundation for Ongoing Innovation
This approach also supported closer alignment between business and IT. With a clear architecture view in place, cybersecurity was no longer treated as a separate technical issue but as an integrated part of how Piab plans and executes projects. Architecture, security, and operations teams could collaborate using the same visual language, making it easier to evaluate the impact of new technologies and process changes.
The result is a stronger foundation for ongoing innovation. With a clearer picture of its cybersecurity capabilities, Piab can plan improvements more effectively, respond faster to new requirements, and support secure growth across its global footprint.
How did the team translate this visual model into day-to-day decision-making? What role did architecture maturity play in tying cybersecurity to broader strategic goals like sustainability and efficiency?
Download the full case study to see how Piab Group turned cybersecurity complexity into clarity – and built a resilient, future-ready architecture to support smarter, safer automation worldwide.
