About Us
Founder
One-Way Automation is a technology company founded in 2013 by Ravil Nugmanov. He has decades of experience in software architecture, design, and development. He started programming in Fortran IV on mainframe computers and has since worked on numerous projects using BASIC, C, Pascal, dBase, Clarion, FoxPro, X++, Java, C++, JavaScript, and Python, with a primary focus on industrial connectivity applications. Formerly with ICL, Matrikon, Honeywell, and GE Digital.
Location
We are located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Our mission
Our mission is to simplify industrial data collection and delivery through reliable software solutions. We design and develop high-performance software applications for industrial process control that require minimal hardware resources, helping to reduce energy consumption. Our software is designed to run efficiently even on legacy and resource-constrained industrial hardware, without requiring expensive, high-end computers. We also provide custom software development services. Our major specialties are OPC UA, MQTT, and Industrial IoT. We use efficient programming languages such as C and C++ where performance and resource efficiency matter.
Our Customers and Served Industries
Our products are used across a wide range of industries where production processes are automated and reliable collection of process control data is essential for modern databases, AI/ML, and analytics solutions. Our customers operate in industries such as steel production, discrete consumer electronics manufacturing, clean and wastewater treatment, recycling, pulp and paper, underground tunnel drilling, food & beverage, and solar power generation. Our products are also used by universities and research organizations.
Our customers are located around the world. Click on the map below to see their approximate locations.
Our Technology Ecosystem
We work with leading technology companies and industry organizations to complement our products and services and deliver comprehensive industrial data collection and integration solutions.
Technology Partners
We have established partnerships with the companies listed below to complement our offerings and cover a wide range of industrial data integration use cases. We are not resellers, but rather technology partners - we help our customers architect complete industrial data collection and integration solutions and provide the expertise to design, deploy, configure, and maintain our partners' products as part of those solutions. By combining our software, services, and partner technologies, we deliver cost-effective and efficient solutions tailored to our customers' needs.
ProsysOPC
ProsysOPC is a Finnish software company specializing in industrial data interoperability.
ProsysOPC develops the OPC UA technology stack, used by software developers around the world to build connected industrial products, as well as ProsysOPC UA Forge, an Industrial DataOps platform that harmonizes data close to the source so that any OT or IT application can use it.
It has customers in more than 50 countries, and offers professional support services alongside every product.
One-Way Automation provides first-tier support and can assist with the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of ProsysOPC products. We also offer OPC UA Forge, ProsysOPC's flagship product, as a data modeling, harmonization, and integration endpoint component withon our oBox Suite.
Takebishi Corporation
TAKEBISHI Corporation is an engineering trading company which specializes in transaction of industrial electric and electronic equipment and devices, having main market share in Kyoto and Shiga prefectures and having its 8 sales offices in Japan and one liaison offices in overseas.
One-Way Automation offers Takebishi DeviceGateway as a protocol conversion component within itsoBox Suite solution. Takebishi DeviceGateway enables southbound connectivity to virtually any industrial device, PLC, CNC, robot, or other equipment you may find on a plant floor. We also can assist you to support
Technology Integrations
Confluent
Confluent, an IBM Company, is a well known provider of the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, rely on to power real-time operations. Together, IBM and Confluent deliver a smart data platform that gives every AI model, agent, and automated workflow the real-time, trusted data needed to operate across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments at scale.
One-Way Automation is a Confluent technology partner. Our flagship industrial data collection product Idako, acting as a Confluent Source Connector for OPC, enables streaming of your process control data to the Confluent platform.
Industry Organizations
OPC Foundation
Since 1996, the OPC Foundation has facilitated the development and adoption of the OPC information exchange standards. As both advocate and custodian of these specifications, the Foundation’s mission is to help industry vendors, end-users, and software developers maintain interoperability in their manufacturing and automation assets. The OPC Foundation is dedicated providing the best specifications, technology, process and certification to achieve multivendor, multiplatform, secure, reliable interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise cloud.
One-Way Automation is an OPC Foundation UA Logo Member. Our founder, Ravil Nugmanov, is also listed as an OPC UA Expert.
Partner With Us
We are expanding our partner network and are looking for system integrators, industrial automation companies, distributors, and resellers interested in adding industrial data collection and integration solutions to their portfolio.
Our products complement existing automation and industrial IT offerings and can be incorporated into complete solutions for industrial data collection, connectivity, and integration. Idako can also be offered as a white-label solution, allowing qualified partners to deliver industrial data collection capabilities under their own brand.
We support our partners with technical expertise, product training, deployment assistance, and ongoing support.
Interested in becoming a partner? Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities.