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Partnerships announced and on show at Hannover |
Partners
Nature of collaboration
ABB, IBM
Combining ABB’s Ability digital portfolio with IBM’s Watson IoT capability to bring artificial intelligence to factory floors and utilities
Schneider Electric, Accenture
Jointly developed a virtual “Digital Services Factory” that Schneider will use to build new offerings in areas such as predictive maintenance, asset monitoring and energy optimisation.
Comau, Iconics, Microsoft
Collaboration aimed at improving production processes of industrial companies in terms of efficiency and cost of ownership
Schneider Electric, Microsoft
Aiming to accelerate the delivery of cloud-based IoT systems by marrying Microsoft’s Azure cloud with Schneider’s EcoStruxure architecture
Kuka, SAP
Working together to promote flexibility and automation of production processes based on IoT and Industry 4.0 concepts.
Kuka, BEET Analytics Technology
Kuka will use BEET’s industrial IoT technology as part of its Industry 4.0 strategy, while strengthening BEET’s global presence
Mitsubishi Electric, SAP
Partnership under Mitsubishi’s e-F@ctory programme will allow its automation systems to work with SAP’s cloud platform and lead to new IoT based services, such as remote device and connectivity management, production and asset monitoring, and predictive maintenance.
Siemens, Adidas
Collaborating on the digital production of sporting goods, with a joint r&d programme to drive the digitisation of Adidas’ Speedfactory concept, with the goal of achieving fast, individualised production.
Industrial Internet Consortium, Platform Industrie 4.0
Hosted a joint real-time demonstration at Hannover, involving more than 20 member companies, showing the IIC’s Industrial Internet Security Framework working with Industry 4.0 security concepts.
Industrial Internet Consortium, Industrial Value Chain
Memorandum of Understanding signed between IIC and IVC (a Japanese forum for smart manufacturing) to work together to maximise interoperability, portability, security and privacy for the Industrial Internet.
Rockwell Automation, OSIsoft
Rockwell is integrating OSIsoft’s PI System into its new FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices appliance which “auto-discovers” devices on networks to conduct diagnostics and monitor their health.
GE Digital, Huawei
Jointly launched a predictive maintenance system that integrates Huawei’s edge computing IoT technology with GE’s Predix Industrial Internet cloud platform.
Toshiba, Huawei
Memorandum of Understanding signed on collaboration to integrate the Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) for the development of smart factories and to accelerate the availability of NB-IoT in a wide range of industries.
Molex, Phoenix Contact, Murrelektronik, Binder
Jointly driving the standardisation of a push-pull M12 connection technology based on Molex’s Brad Ultra-Lock technology.
Harting, IBM
Working on a project to record energy consumption by injection-moulding machines, which are linked to IBM’s Watson IoT cloud via Harting’s Mica (modular Industry Computing Architecture) system.