| Company Description | Grayhill, Inc. designs and manufactures intuitive human interface solutions that make life simpler, safer and more efficient. Standard products include optical encoders, rotary switches, keypads, joysticks and pushbuttons; all with finely tuned haptics. Grayhill specializes in creating ergonomic panels and product shells that integrate various interface technologies, including displays, touch technology and motion sensing.
With headquarters just outside of Chicago, and multiple state-of-the-art facilities around the world, Grayhill’s team has the engineering, development and manufacturing expertise to deliver both standard and customized products quickly and cost-effectively. | Beckhoff implements open automation systems based on PC Control technology. Products that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and seamless control system are available for all industries. | Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH | Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power (ULP) short-range wireless communication. The company’s range of 2.4GHz transceiver and transmitter devices are employed by some of the world’s leading brands in a wide variety of applications like wireless keyboard and mouse, game Controllers, and intelligent sports equipment.
Nordic is a member of the ANT+ Alliance and has successfully collaborated with ANT Wireless of Cochrane, Canada, since 2005. ANT devices– using Nordic 2.4GHz transceivers and the proven ANT protocol – have been used in millions of wireless sensor nodes across the world. ANT is perfectly suited for any kind of low data rate sensor network topologies in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and practical Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).
Nordic’s products are all manufactured in state of the art semiconductor process technologies through strong, long-term relationships with world-best manufacturing facilities. Nordic is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. All operations are managed according to the ISO 9001:2000-approved quality Assurance system. | With over 50 years of sensor experience, Balluff GmbH is a world leader and one of the most efficient manufacturers of sensor technology with company office in Neuhausen a.d.F. directly at Stuttgart.
The company offers sophisticated technology and very modern electronics application-specific customer solutions and an individual consultation and first-class service. | BeagleBoard.org Foundation (BeagleBoard) is a US-based non-profit corporation supporting a community of Open Source software and hardware developers producing small, affordable and low-power computers ideal for physical and network interactions. | Maxon precision motors is a leading supplier of high-precision DC brush and brushless servo motors and drives. maxon’s rhombic wound ironless rotor motors provide exceptionally high efficiency, low EMI emissions, fast acceleration, no preferred rotor position, linear speed and torque constant (accurate control) and long life. These motors range in size from 4 – 90 mm and are available up to 500 watts. | ICP DAS is a manufacturer of innovative industrial automation hardware and software. With robust products that can operate in extreme industrial environments, ICP DAS provides flexible total solutions for a wide range of applications in industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, building automation, energy monitoring, machine automation, environmental monitoring, water management, etc.
With locations in North America, Asia, Europe, and South America, ICP DAS has played an important role in providing high quality industrial control solutions for over a decade. We provide free technical support, training classes, application engineering, and programming services out of our office in Southern California. | KEBA has been developing and producing pioneering automation solutions for a wide range of industries under the maxim “Automation by innovation” for more than 50 years. KEBA is an internationally active technology company with headquarters in Linz/Austria, 26 subsidiaries in 16 countries and more than 2,000 passionate employees. With long-term customer benefits in mind, flexible and expert teams work in close proximity to the customers in order to optimally support and advise them. |
| IoT Solutions | | The purpose of Industry 4.0 is to make manufacturing more flexible, efficient and sustainable through communication and intelligence, thus increasing the competitiveness of German industry. One major component of this approach is control technology, which is still far from reaching its full potential. Improved communication methodologies and the rising convergence of information and automation technologies will deliver significant progress – something Beckhoff has always focused on with its PC-based control technology and fieldbus communication. Beckhoff provides the foundational technologies and tools needed today to implement Industrie 4.0 concepts and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, all via PC-based control. TwinCAT engineering and control software packages are available for the creation of applications such as Big Data, pattern recognition as well as condition or power monitoring, in addition to traditional control tasks – which can sustainably increase production and engineering efficiency as a result. | Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) focus on transforming bits of data collected at the edge of a pervasive distributed system into actionable information and knowledge for business decision makers and end users. These transformations are driving the biggest change in industry since the steam engine! One of the most important aspects of IoT vision is that smart objects communicate effectively with each other and with applications residing in data centers or the cloud. Eurotech develops and offers the technical building blocks required to build distributed systems of devices and sensors to be effectively interconnected with IT infrastructures. Eurotech solutions are a combination of hardware, Firmware, operating systems, programming frameworks and external infrastructure that enable customers focus on their core activities. | Whilst still in its infancy, the Internet of Things (IoT) is in part evolving by using Bluetooth Smart as an underpinning technology. Bluetooth Smart is rapidly being adopted for short-range wireless connectivity between compact, coin cell-powered accessories using RF sensors and smartphone ‘hubs’ supporting associated software applications. The ARM mbed initiative is a collaborative industry project that plans to nurture the IoT. The initiative delivers tools and fundamental open-source hardware and software building blocks for the rapid development of ARM-based devices.
The collaboration between Nordic Semiconductor and ARM has resulted in Nordic’s nRF51822 System-on-Chip (SoC) which combines a Bluetooth v4.1-compliant 2.4GHz multiprotocol radio with an ARM Cortex-M0 CPU core on a single chip optimized for ultra-low power operation. The nRF51822 Series offers developers the ideal platform for designing the wirelessly-connected sensors that will help turn the IoT from a technological concept into reality as the mechanisms to transfer IP data from sensor nodes begin to appear. | The competitive advantage of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is at your fingertips. The technology that enables these advantages is here now and well proven. Intelligent, connected systems provide scalability to seamlessly grow with your manufacturing needs. Are you ready to capitalize?
Our commitment is to the development and manufacture of sensors, identification systems and connectivity solutions for every area of industrial automation.
We already offer the necessary technologies for implementing Industry 4.0 and IIoT solutions.
• Integration in successive stages as budget and time allow
• Prioritize projects based on need with scalable implemention
• Capitalize on existing control architectures to quickly realize Industry 4.0 and IIoT | A pioneer in the IoT industry, BeagleBoard provides solutions that result in rapid prototypes and avoids all barriers to production. By engaging a broad developer ecosystem, challenges faced by individual development efforts have likely already been seen and resolved. A network of hardware and software consultants are highly experienced around BeagleBoard.org designs and are prepared to solve any development gaps you might encounter. BeagleBone is a true open hardware, community-supported embedded computer for developers and hobbyists. Ride the 1GHz edge with the Sitara™ ARM® Cortex-A8 processor, boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable. | | | |
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