With specialized sales and engineering teams for machine automation, process control, instrumentation, data communication and fluid power technologies, Cross has the technical expertise to solve industries'​ most challenging automation applications.

PRINCEPS is an R&D intensive company. We have conducted a significant R&D effort in cooperation with academic organisations in Europe (PRINCEPS is the initiator and coordinator of several EU funded projects). Strong with more than 15 years field experience through planning and scheduling projects worldwide, we have developed an innovative software suite which introduces a new paradigm in this domain. Most importantly, PRINCEPS has developed over the years, a strong working partnership with its clients, which is at the foundation of its customer oriented culture. The Oil industry is one of the pioneers in the widespread adoption of optimization techniques. The term “Refinery optimization” has consequently evolved to become a multi-faceted concept. At an abstract level, refinery optimization is about getting the most from the existing assets; by extension, it can also refer to the most profitable investments in new equipment or new assets. This first distinction gives rise to 2 horizons of application to refinery optimization: long term, structural optimization, and short term operations optimization. Moreover, operations management itself can be addressed in a variety of ways, depending on whether the approach taken to refinery optimization is bottom-up, or top-down: The top-down approach is based on hierarchical optimization: the refinery optimization problem is addressed as a succession of optimization problems of different time magnitudes and granularities. The first problem is a mid-term planning problem and is concerned with the refinery as a whole and a time frame of one to several months. Subsequently, the time frame is subdivided into finer time intervals. At the lowest level, the theoretical goal is to achieve operations scheduling on a day to day basis. The bottom-up approach is one that starts with local problems and tries to aggregate them into a consistent solution at the refinery level. In contrast to traditional bottom-up approaches – which attempt to build an overall solution by aggregating local solutions – we start by achieving a feasible, “good quality” overall solution using our smart simulation engine. Then, guided by the consistent overall solution, we seek to optimize local operational challenges. Our innovative approach to refinery optimization takes account of 2 crucial facts: - Day-to-day operations are subject to uncertainty, - Regardless of the inherent formal difficulty of achieving an overall refinery schedule optimization, an overall optimized schedule is of little use. This is simply because an overall solution achieved that way is inherently unstable: the slightest change or unforeseen event means that the whole schedule must be rebuilt. And given the huge amount of inertia in such a large system, any sudden change of trajectory consumes an equally huge amount of energy. Under this pragmatic perspective, refinery optimization appears as the search for a maintainable globally feasible, locally optimized schedule. Optimization is applied to sub-systems where a high economic impact is achievable.

Simevo is a young startup with the mission to provide flexible technologies for the simulation of industrial continuous processes and of financial cash flow, that can be used to implement smart forecasting solutions. Tired of simulation technology which is inaccessible, expensive and obsolete? simevo is a lean supplier of innovative simulation technology that will help you face the challenges of the evolving business environment.

Established on January 1, 2010, the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB grew to become Europe´s largest research institute in the field of image acquisition, processing and analysis. IOSB´s other areas of acitvity are control and automation technology, and information and knowledge management. IOSB has four locations in Germany: Karlsruhe, Ettlingen, Ilmenau and Lemgo as well as a representative office in Beijing. The three core competencies of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation give the institute its distinctive profile.

Mariner provides Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and analytic products and services for better decision-making to discrete and process manufacturers, worldwide. Mariner offers Spyglass, a comprehensive Microsoft Azure cloud-based IoT Platform helping its customers: Improve production asset utilization using condition-based & Predictive Maintenance technologies to monitor and alert for outage conditions before they occur Provide global visibility into the current and historical performance of production lines Improve quality monitoring factors that most influence it Initiate better-informed field service when failure conditions are identified Reduce customer acquisition and retention costs by reducing production costs and improving service levels of your products Create new revenue streams providing the ability to bundle a service contract with your product to stay close to your customer and provide previously unattainable service levels Provide innovative product enhancements using data collected from product and applying it to new design engineering Mariner – improving your products and how they are made.

IntelliSense.io aims to be the PARTNER of choice for industrial infrastructure owners & operators, to deliver a step change in productivity and efficiency within their plants, processes & people. They create Internet of Things (IoT) Applications to improve productivity and efficiency in capital and asset-intensive industries. Year founded: 2013

UNITY Consulting, an affiliated firm of UNITY AG, is a management consultancy for future-oriented corporate management. They create bottom line oriented innovative processes and business models – from the initial concept to execution.

Digiwin Software is a China-based company primarily engaged in the research, development, sale, implementation and service of enterprise management software. The Company provides enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-ERP, industry solutions and others. The Company primarily provides homemade ERP software products and related services, including software implementation services, secondary development services, software maintenance contract services, and education and training services for ERP and e-ERP products.

Cross Company's Integrated Systems Group provides control system design, system integration, programming services and product fulfillment to industry and municipalities. We guide our clients in making sound decisions for factors that are relevant to their manufacturing system performance. We execute projects using proven methodologies to minimize project risk and provide value in the services we deliver.

PRINCEPS’ scheduling technology represents a technology leap through a variety of innovative features, such as: - The capability to dynamically modify events during simulation, making a schedule self-adjust its events to the simulation results - Schedules and models archiving and “versioning”, merge different branches from different users, or rolling back schedule changes as needed - Smooth and continuous transition between model versions within the same schedule

Mobile, Cloud and Internet of Things Implement smart forecasting solutions based on our flexible simulation technologies - interface with everything from SCADA to ERP thanks to Python, C# and RESTful HTTP APIs.

Spyglass Connected Factory Spyglass Connected Product Spyglass Connected Medical Device

Large industrial infrastructure such as mining sites, factories, power plants and oil & gas fields will need to adjust to a new world order of increasing operating cost and a variable commodity price, this will drive the need to make significant improvements in productivity and efficiency within a tightening capital budget. These industries produce tens of billions of sensor data points from their existing equipment, systems and processes. IntelliSense.io believes an enormous amount of productivity and efficiency improvements can be unlocked from this data by optimising the configuration of existing equipment and control systems enabled by our modern Data Science software, online simulation software and real-time wireless sensor networking knowledge, that generates data insights with minimum disruption to existing operations.

Now that the internet has exerted disruptive change on business in the form of e-commerce, the manufacturing industry is next. UNITY thinks that the main fields of action for companies are introduced: Digitization, i.e. an increased degree of automation to boost productivity, and the development of new business models to generate services and sales. UNITY supports companies on their path towards Industry 4.0. Their board range of services - from product development topics to services and sales to optimum order development - forms the ideal basis for target-oriented Industry 4.0 consulting.

Digiwin Software is to embrace cloud, mobile and big data technologies and be the leader of enterprise software for Industry 4.0 and retail 4.0.

Bayernoil, BP, Total, Saudi Aramco

Global Foundries, KazAtomProm