Industrial sector

Grow your competitive advantage

The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) is not only driving modern industrial growth, it’s accelerating it. Don't let legacy infrastructure slow your innovation. 

Industrial edge worker

Modernize your infrastructure without starting over

Organizations in the industrial sector are undergoing a rapid shift in how they manage their industrial systems to support production and distribution. Companies risk being left behind unless they can bridge the gap between new technology and their legacy infrastructure.

Red Hat has 20 years of experience integrating these two worlds, maximizing efficiency and scale through its ecosystem of cloud, automation, AI, and other platform solutions. Red Hat helps businesses operating from the edge by simplifying operations that are increasingly reliant on complex processes.

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How to unite modern and traditional at the industrial edge

Experience operational efficiency without the complexity

Artificial Intelligence

Use artificial intelligence to drive your business goals forward

Manage distributed data, secure hybrid environments, and deploy AI models at the edge, utilizing advancements in AI and edge computing—like turning real-time data from sensors and machines into actionable intelligence— to build smarter, safer, and more efficient operations. Using Red Hat products like OpenShift AI and Red Hat Device Edge helps organizations deploy and manage AI models from the data center to the furthest edge.  Supported by a robust ecosystem of partners, Red Hat simplifies complex integrations, providing an open foundation for safer, more efficient, and autonomous operations.

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Red Hat's advanced compute platform

Bridge IT and OT to deliver operational consistency

As informational and operational technology environments converge, organizations need a consistent, secure, and scalable foundation. Built on an open, software-defined architecture, Red Hat’s Advanced Compute Platform (ACP) unifies data, controls, and analytics across hybrid and edge environments. Industrial organizational leaders can modernize their operations with confidence, while improving data use for real-time insights and predictive maintenance.

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Red Hat wins Stevie Award for Technical Innovator of the Year

Network automation

Improve operational agility with network automation

Maintain uptime across industrial systems by automating your network management. Implementing a solution like Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform gives organizations the ability to automate configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management across complex, multivendor environments. The result is a more reliable, secure, and streamlined network orchestration process that accelerates production, minimizes downtime, and improves overall operational agility.

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Industrial controls modernization

Access the future of industrial controls

Organizations need tools that move them beyond proprietary, hardware-bound systems toward open, software-defined architectures that unify IT and OT, simplify lifecycle management, and enhance security across operations. With an open platform approach, teams can automate configuration, deploy software-defined controllers, orchestrate workloads across environments, and more from the datacenter to the edge.

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Leading innovation with ecosystem partners

Red Hat works in partnership with leading industrial innovators to accelerate digital transformation across the industrial sector. We combine open-source technologies with partner expertise to modernize operations, reduce downtime, boost security, and optimize performance—enabling AI-driven insights and autonomous operations.