Building a Real OT Gas Transportation Station in Labshock Using GE MS5002E
How Labshock Builder creates a full industrial OT environment with turbines, PLCs, SIS, and SCADA systems.
This post describes the construction of a real OT lab environment inside Labshock, not a demo or simplified simulation, but a full industrial-style gas transportation station.
The environment is based on the General Electric MS5002E turbine architecture and is built using the new Labshock Builder system.
Industrial OT lab architecture
The Gas Transportation Station simulation includes multiple industrial turbine units modeled on GE MS5002E systems.
Each turbine unit contains: - 1 PLC system - 1 Safety Instrumented System (SIS) - 1 local Human Machine Interface (HMI) based on GE Mark VIe-style control logic
In total, the lab includes: - 4 turbine control systems - 4 PLC controllers - 4 SIS safety systems - 4 local HMI interfaces
All systems are connected to a central SCADA environment that provides unified operational visibility.
Network and infrastructure design
Using Labshock Builder, the entire industrial network is automatically generated.
The system includes: - 11 segmented VLANs - automated IP address assignment - dynamic routing configuration - industrial network segmentation logic
This removes the need for manual network setup and ensures consistent reproducibility of industrial environments.
Once the Builder process is completed, the full OT network topology is operational and ready for testing.
Operational structure
The architecture is no longer a simple lab or static demo environment. It is a structured industrial system with multiple control layers:
- turbine-level control systems
- safety systems (SIS)
- local operator interfaces (HMI)
- centralized SCADA monitoring
All components interact in a realistic industrial control flow.
Next phase of development
After network generation, the next steps include: - completion of HMI and SCADA logic - integration of operational workflows - preparation for testing and validation scenarios
The system is scheduled for testing in the following development cycle.
Purpose of the environment
The main goal of this Labshock environment is to enable real OT security validation, including: - testing IDS behavior in industrial conditions - validating detection systems against realistic OT traffic - evaluating security tools in a full industrial simulation
Instead of working with abstract lab setups, security teams can operate on real OT-style infrastructure.
This enables practical validation of industrial cybersecurity tools in conditions that closely resemble real-world environments.
Organizations interested in testing or integrating their security tools can connect to Labshock for industrial OT simulation environments.