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CRA + NIS2 + Machinery Reg for industrial OT and connected hardware

From PLC firmware to safety-critical Class III machinery — the dual conformity layer EU manufacturers must ship for CRA (Dec 2027) + NIS2 (Oct 2024).

Pain

Hardware with digital elements ships under CRA + Machinery Reg 2023/1230. Two conformity tracks. One product. Two notified bodies.

What you want

A single product file that satisfies CRA Annex I + Machinery Annex III simultaneously, with cross-walk evidence and shared SBOM.

Why industrial / OT companies use NexCyber

If your product has digital elements and falls under Annex III of the Machinery Regulation, you're in a double-conformity zone — CRA + Machinery Reg + potentially NIS2 if you're operating critical infrastructure.

1. Dual-conformity matrix. The platform overlays CRA Annex I (essential cybersecurity requirements) with Machinery Annex III (safety) — flags the shared evidence (risk assessment, technical documentation) and the regulation-specific deltas.

2. PLC / firmware SBOM intelligence. Ingest CycloneDX or SPDX from your CI. The platform tracks per-version dependencies and flags CVEs that map to CRA Article 13 vulnerability handling obligations.

3. NIS2 essential-entity classification. If you operate manufacturing of medical devices, motor vehicles, electrical equipment (NIS2 Annex II), the platform identifies your obligations.

Three industrial-OT use-cases

Dual-conformity submission. Generate one technical file that maps to CRA Annex I + Machinery Annex III, with shared risk assessment and traceable evidence.

Supplier audit playbook. Each upstream supplier (electronic component, firmware library, integration partner) gets a Trust Passport tier. Procurement decisions tied to compliance posture.

Notified body readiness. Manufacturing Class IIa devices and Class III machinery require notified-body audit. The platform generates the document pack and the cross-walk regulators expect.

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Free dual-conformity scan. EU-hosted. Hardware-ready evidence pipeline.

Versus what you do today

Big4 consulting · In-house spreadsheet · NexCyber.

DimensionBig4 / ConsultingIn-house spreadsheetNexCyber
First assessment delay
4–8 weeks
2–6 weeks
5 minutes
Cost per regulation cycle
€90k–170k
€30k+ hidden
Included
Reproducibility
Slide deck of the day
Depends on editor
Deterministic, identical re-runs
Article-level traceability
Footnote
Often missing
Live link to EUR-Lex
Update when law changes
Re-billed mission
Restart from scratch
Automatic, MRCC re-signed
Deliverable format
Static PDF
XLSX/Word
PDF + MRCC machine-verifiable
Auditor verification
Email + chase
Not verifiable
sha256 verified in seconds
Multi-regulation simultaneous
1 mission per regulation
Duplicates & conflicts
5 regulations, 1 source of truth
New product line evolution
Re-billed mission
Full re-entry
Clone + delta
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