The invention relates to a method for collecting industrial data within a
plant (100), which includes an industrial device that executes a process within a
station (ST01, ST02) included in an operation (OP600; OP630). According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps: - instantiating a
physical data model on a local
server (120), the model having a hierarchical structure with a
first class, a second class and a third class, respectively, comprising variables related to the process, the
station and the operation, respectively, the
first class being dependent on the second class, which in turn is dependent on the third class, each variable having a type and a
physical address for allocating a value of the variable to the industrial device, the
station, or the operation, the variables originating from a
database of the variables; - collecting the data according to the
data model, for each variable, the local
server being connected to the
physical address of the variable in order to
record its value; - storing the data on a remote
server (140).