IT-Gladiator e.U.
Digital Manufacturing / Digital Engineering – Architecture & Product Management as a Service
The IT Gladiator Manifesto

Digital Manufacturing & DIGITAL Engineering

The hardest challenge in process manufacturing — chemical, pharma, utilities — is not the technology itself. It is the culture, process & information gap that runs through the entire asset lifecycle. From engineering design, through plant operations, into the enterprise — these three worlds haven't always talked with each other.

We gladiate to bridge the Gap between Engineering, Operation & Information Technology
27+
years of IT/OT/ET Expierence
50++
Projects delivered
1000+++
Users enabled to deliver Value
WHY

One Asset, Three Languages

A plant is born in engineering, lives in operations, and answers to the enterprise. The data must follow.

ASSET LIFECYCLE INFORMATION FLOW ET Engineering Technology How a plant is born ● P&IDs · FEL1 / FEL2 / FEL3 ● Engineering Info Management ● DEXPI · CFIHOS · ISO 15926 ● Asset Information Requirements ● Digital Handover · AAS · DPP 6+ months saved · 10–20% cost ↓ Asset Handover OT Operations Technology How the plant lives ● Unified Namespace · OPC UA · MQTT ● DCS · Historian · OEE · CMMS ● MES · Batch · Electronic Records ● ISA-88 · ISA-95 · I3x ● Cybersecurity · Zero Trust OT 5–15% baseline improvement Operational Data IT Information Technology Where shopfloor meets strategy ● ERP · MES · LIMS · PLM ● Enterprise Data Backbone ● AI & Agents · MCP · Copilots ● Cloud · Terraform · DevSecOps ● DataOps · Airflow · Databricks Survive & thrive · FDA-defensible AI insights · enterprise context · strategy feedback
The information flow that most plants never achieve.
WHAT

Areas the IT-Gladiator operates

Independent Enterprise and Solution Architecture across the full stack — from P&ID to AI agent.

ET
Engineering Technology
How a plant is born

Almost nobody designs the information model for the whole asset lifecycle upfront — so engineering data dies in silos. The answer is integrated engineering + handover built on a structured data & document model

Integrated Engineering Process & Handover
  • Engineering Information Management — single source of truth across Conceptual, Basic, Detail, Construction & GoLive
  • Asset Information Requirements — defined at FEL, delivered at handover
  • Standards-based modelling — DEXPI, CFIHOS, ISO 15926, IEC 81346
  • GxP change management — electronic signature workflows
  • Future direction — Digital Product Passport, Asset Administration Shell
Stack
DEXPI CFIHOS ISO 15926 IEC 81346 VDI 2770 AAS
10–20% reduction in engineering & technical support cost over the asset lifecycle.
6+ months saved from from concept to go live.
OT
Operations Technology
How the plant lives

a single manufacturing sites can carry over millions of asset split up over different applications, everything on their own. the answer is a digital twin build on a unified namespace to bring the information together running 24x7

Data Foundation & Industrial Applications
  • Unified Namespace — MQTT, OPC UA, modern OT middleware, batch, ISA-95 hierarchy, asset identity
  • Manufacturing Execution + Performance — Batch, Recipe, Electronic Records, OEE, Maintenance, Energy Management, Sustanability
  • Manufacturing Intelligence & Historian strategy — consolidation, migration, replacement architecture, user enablement
  • Advanced Topics — Robotics, Automatic Visual Inspection
  • Critical Infrastructure & Cybersecurity — OT into the Cloud, Remote Access, Patching, Segmentation, Zero Trust
Stack
OPC UA MQTT ISA-95 ISA-88 I3x Zero Trust
5-15% baseline improvement through output increase and cost decrease.
IT
Information Technology
Where shopfloor meets strategy

Two distinct jobs — connecting ET and OT into the enterprise applications, data & AI and delivering a modern operating model that still passes an FDA audit.

Integration, Data & AI + Modern Operation Model
  • Enterprise systems — ERP, MES, LIMS, EAM, PLM integration
  • Enterprise Data Backbone — governed data lake-house, FAIR data products
  • AI & Agents — predictive quality, copilots, MCP-based AI access
  • Cloud transformation — Hyperscaler with FinOps cost transparency
  • DevSecOps — Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, GitHub-managed pipelines, security in the SDLC, IT/OT security reviews
  • Agile SDLC in GxP — SAFe at scale, electronic signatures
  • DataOps — Data Lakes, Data Governance, Realtime Pipelines
Stack
Databricks Terraform Airflow Atlassian GAMP 5
Survive — and thrive — in an IT landscape that must fulfill the basics and be ready for the future

One holistic architecture. Three layers - one owner

Why IT-Gladiator

What Makes the Engagement Different

Three principles that shape every project — and that distinguish the gladiator from the consultant.

01

Hands-on Depth

25+ years from DCS engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code & AI to enterprise architecture and board-level decisions. Direct engagement in architecture sessions, vendor negotiations.

02

No Vendor Agenda

Independent counsel. No incentive to sell a product or service that is not needed. Honest assessment of what is worth building — including saying "do not do this" when that is the right answer. We have preferences, long-term partners, but no kickback or commissions.

03

Do what make sense & Pay what you really need

Since this is not my fulltime occupation, i don't need to sell - i just help you where it adds value!

trust & long term partnership
in short doing business where you can have a intensive discussion, and also go on a beer afterwards.
— Wolfgang Purrer, Founder