Project Background

Hayat Kimya and Kastamonu Entegre operate a global industrial structure with highly automated, multidisciplinary production processes across facilities located in different countries.

In line with the group’s digitalisation and operational continuity vision, the objective was to establish OT visibility and to address IT–OT separation within a corporate architectural framework.

The Challenge

Addressing facilities serving multiple industries—each with its own unique production processes—within a single project significantly increased the complexity of OT environment analysis.

The diversity created by differing production processes, combined with the presence of multiple PLC brands and vendor-specific systems even within the same facility, resulted in a level of complexity that could not be managed through traditional automation or IT security approaches.

This fragmented landscape would typically require multiple automation vendors with sector- and process-specific expertise to work together. Instead, the corporate group sought an OT capability that could address the entire environment centrally, holistically, and in a vendor-independent manner.

The Indas Approach

Leveraging its vendor-agnostic OT engineering expertise and deep understanding of sector-specific production processes, Indas delivered a holistic approach capable of addressing facilities with fundamentally different characteristics under a single framework.

By consolidating field experience gained across diverse industries in Türkiye and Europe into a unified methodology, Indas developed a consistent and comparable OT analysis model covering all facilities.

Through this approach, facilities incorporating different production disciplines and automation technologies were assessed from the same perspective on OT assets, communication structures, and process dependencies—resulting in a corporate-scale, scalable analysis framework rather than isolated, site-specific solutions.

Within the scope of the project:

Comprehensive field studies were conducted across five production facilities at Hayat Kimya’s Gebze campus and at Kastamonu Entegre’s production facility in Italy.

At Hayat Kimya Gebze facilities, 1,140 control panels were physically inspected; at Kastamonu Entegre’s Italy facility, 520 control panels were examined.

More than 5,000 OT assets at Hayat Kimya Gebze and over 300 OT assets at Kastamonu Entegre Italy (PLCs, HMIs, RIOs, drives, network components, etc.) were individually identified.

The work went beyond software-based scans; our engineers opened control panels and inspected connections on-site.

Interdependencies, cable routes, and communication structures between OT assets were thoroughly documented.

As a result of these efforts, a comprehensive inventory and topology documentation reflecting the current state of the OT environments at Hayat Kimya and Kastamonu Entegre was created—effectively capturing a “snapshot” of the OT networks.

Outcome

This detailed analysis not only revealed the current state of the environments but also formed the foundation for the secure IT–OT architecture and future cybersecurity investments planned by Hayat Kimya and Kastamonu Entegre.

Following the project, Indas was positioned as the long-term, trusted solution partner at the OT layer.