With the increasing networking of production areas and the integration of ever more complex monitoring and control solutions, the need to secure the communication of machines and services with end-to-end security measures increases. The constant authentication of people and machines in production is becoming an increasingly central security anchor. We develop the necessary concepts, processes and technical solutions to optimally integrate the production areas into the company's overall identity and access management environment. We pay particular attention to the specific requirements of production organizations, as the lifecycle processes for users and machines in production often differnt from those in IT and existing IT solutions which cannot ...