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| Supplier Slogan | | Power and Productivity for a Better World. | Invented for life | Enabling the Networked Society. | | | | Listen. Think. Solve. | Sensing Tomorrow |
| HQ Location | France | Switzerland | Germany | Sweden | United States | United States | Germany | United States | Japan |
| Year Founded | 1898 | 1988 | 1886 | 1876 | 1885 | 1969 | 1961 | 1903 | 1933 |
| Company Type | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public |
| Stock Ticker | | NYSE: ABB | | NASDAQ: ERIC | NYSE: JCI | NASDAQ: FLEX | | NYSE: ROK | OTCMKTS: OMRNY |
| Revenue | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | $1-10b | $1-10b |
| Employees | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | | @ABBgroupnews | @BoschGlobal | @ericsson | @johnsoncontrols | @flextronics | @Rittal_Ltd | @ROKAutomation | @OmronAutomation |
| Company Description | Groupe Renault is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches, aircraft and aircraft engines, and autorail vehicles. | ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies. Their solutions improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their customers’ operations while minimizing environmental impact. | Bosch is an industry leader in automobile and industrial equipment, as well as consumer goods and building systems. Bosch operates via 440 subsidiaries in 60 countries; its core lines include mobility (auto) systems, from diesel/hybrid drive to steering, starter motors and generators, electronics, and brakes.
Year founded: 1886
Revenue: $58.7 billion (2014)
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- ProSyst | Ericsson provides services, software and infrastructure in mobility, broadband and the cloud that enable the communications industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency, improve their users' experience and capture new opportunities.
Year founded: 1876
Revenue: $26.8 billion (2014)
NASDAQ: ERIC | Johnson Controls is an American company globally offering products and services to optimize energy and operational efficiencies of buildings, automotive batteries, electronics and interior systems for automobiles.
Year founded: 1885
Revenue: $42.9 billion (2014) | Flextronic has established itself as a global leader without equal in the categories of design, manufacturing, distribution, and aftermarket services. They are helping customers big and small solve the challenges of the connected age with over 100 sites in 30 countries, and 200,000 highly skilled innovators at the ready. Flextronics International offers turnkey manufacturing services to the world's leading electronics companies, including Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and Xerox.
Year founded: | Rittal manufactures industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications.
| Rockwell is a provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions that helps manufacturers achieve a competitive advantage for their businesses. Rockwell operates in two segments: Architecture & Software, which deals in hardware, software and communication components of the organization, and Controls Products & Solutions that handles a portfolio of intelligent motor control and industrial control products, application expertise and project management capabilities. | OMRON Industrial Automation functions as a partner to help innovate worldwide manufacturing.Through our expertise in sensing and control technology, we enable manufacturers to operate with greater productivity and streamlined efficiency. |
| IoT Solutions | | Our lives are touched daily by the Internet. It widens our horizons and improves our capabilities by connecting us to a wider community and their collective knowledge. A similar revolution in industry is connecting intelligent machines and the collective data generated from a growing number of electronic sensors. We are ‘seeing, hearing, and feeling’ our industrial processes like never before and this empowers the decisions we make to optimize performance. This revolution allows us to operate machines more safely, with greater efficiency, and with lower environmental impact, not just individually, but as complete systems, working in harmony to enhance power and productivity for a better world. For over a decade ABB has been working to develop and enhance process control systems, communications solutions, sensors and software for the Internet of Things, Services and People (IoTSP). These technologies enable their customers in industries, utilities and infrastructure to analyze their data more intelligently, optimize their operations, boost their productivity, and their flexibility. ABB is advancing the IoTSP by helping their customers develop their existing technologies, while keeping sight of our enduring commitment to safety, reliability, cyber security and Data Privacy. | Many areas of our lives have already been changed by the Internet of Things, and industry is no exception. By blending the real and the virtual worlds of production via the internet, the IoT makes it possible to connect all parts of the production process: machines, products, systems, and people. This means that machines and products can communicate so they can manage themselves and each other.
Software-based system and service platforms will play a major role in tomorrow’s manufacturing; they are the only way to bring connectivity, including data analysis, to machines and workpieces in production.
Bosch's software solutions for connected manufacturing and logistics gather, visualize, analyze, and monitor machine, process, and sensor data. They then translate this data into useful information that serves as a source for their rule- and process-based actions. The transparency this creates allows clients to determine precisely where to optimize production and logistics processes along the entire value chain. | The Internet of Things (IoT) will have a profound impact in the future. Enabling anything to be connected and providing ’smartness’ to these connected things will bring value across a number of sectors in the Networked Society.
Ericsson is engaged with a number of partners from industry and academia in an EU-funded research project called the IoT Initiative with the objective of increasing the benefits and possibilities of IoT, but also identifing and proposing ways to tackle the challenges.
The project analyzed about 150 application scenarios of strategic importance. A selected subset were tested in surveys which went out to a number of users and professionals within the ICT community. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling innovation in products, services and solutions that improve building operations and performance.
For decades, Johnson Controls has been providing the equipment and systems that communicate in real-time to deliver optimized environments. With a portfolio ranging from sensors, equipment and systems through cloud-based data collection and fault detection, they offer an advanced and robust product line.
Johnson Controls smart equipment leverages embedded controls and secured connectivity to reduce the risk of downtime and improve the serviceability while optimizing efficiency and reducing energy costs. | Flextronics, an innovative supply chain solutions company, announced a new 'era of intelligence' triggered by an increasing level of smart, connected activity. This new era will be as much about the creation and management of a growing intelligent network of sophisticated software and services as it is about intelligent products, even as it requires a thorough re-thinking and re-making of the objects, goods and products that surround us.
At Flex, they look beyond the Internet of Things (IoT) to a broader understanding of the Age of Intelligence. By exploring the insights and new ideas of this connected world, Flex hope to inspire dialogue that leads to bigger and better breakthroughs. With their new quarterly digital publication, INTELLIGENCE, Flex is providing a venue for thought leadership and new insights into the connected age. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is an expansion of internet use that enables people, machines and elements including workpieces and objects to make use of new technological possibilities. All participants, computers and machines require distinct identification and communicate on the same basis. This makes the exchange of information (identification, addressing, data formats, transfer) standardised and uniform. Established technologies (hardware, software) from the IT domain can thus be used in new domains such as production processes and logistics chains.
Rittal is helping many companies participate in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity to reach Industry 4.0 integration, by adopting the modular structures necessary to help smart factories stay functional.In the Industry 4.0 era, data-controlled equipment and automated systems not only give managers visibility of what’s happening in their enterprises down to individual work cells, but also the power to effect change and avert disasters when necessary. Companies without an Industry 4.0 philosophy are more likely to be forced to deal with the after-effects of outages and miscommunications caused by data disconnects. | Smart Connected Operations is a future looking vision that describes what the factory or production line of the future will look like. It will involve Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled MOM applications integrated with IIoT enabled assets and IIoT enabled business systems. It is an elemental part of creating the Smart Connected Enterprise and is often where companies have breaks in the strands of the digital thread.
In moving towards this vision, both solution providers and manufacturing organizations are going to have to up the game when it comes to investing in IIoT. These investments will include the creation of new organizations that bring together IT, OT, and business leaders, new technologies that enable connectivity, cloud, big data analytics, and the development of new applications, along with the foresight to see that small pilot projects today could transform entire industries tomorrow. | |
| Key Customers | | SPIE OSMO GmbH, Fastned, Hermes International, Waggeryd Cell AB, Xianglu Petrochemicals Zhangzhou Co Ltd., HeidelbergCement, Axpo Holding AG, Renewcell, L&T Construction, Cemex, Volvo, Hitachi Powdered Metal. | John Deere, Suzuki, ThyssenKrupp Steel | AT&T, O2, Sprint | Organichem, Sealed Air, Steelcase, Morgan Stanley, Ericsson, Jaguar Land Rover, Fiserv (Europe) Ltd | Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, Fitbit, Huawei, Microsoft | Demando, ERF, Prosegur | Campari, INCO Engineering, Whyalla Steelworks | |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | | ActuatorsAutomation & ControlProcessors & Edge IntelligenceRobotsSensorsAnalytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareFunctional ApplicationsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Networks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareAutomation & ControlCybersecurity & PrivacyPlatform as a Service (PaaS)RobotsSensorsFunctional ApplicationsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Cybersecurity & PrivacyNetworks & ConnectivitySensorsAutomation & Control | | Sensors | Automation & ControlSensorsAnalytics & ModelingNetworks & ConnectivityProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Automation & ControlRobotsSensors |
| Industries | | AgricultureAutomotiveCementChemicalsElectronicsEquipment & MachineryFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingMetalsOil & GasPackagingPlasticsRecycling & Waste ManagementRenewable EnergySemiconductorsUtilities | AgricultureAutomotiveBuildingsElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingOil & GasRailway & MetroRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | AutomotiveChemicalsMiningTelecommunicationsTransportation | AerospaceAutomotiveConstruction & InfrastructureEducationFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingOil & GasRetailTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | AutomotiveBuildingsElectrical GridsHealthcare & HospitalsRenewable EnergyTelecommunications | | | AutomotiveElectronicsFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsLife SciencesOil & Gas |
| Use Cases | Autonomous Transportation | Automatic Palletizing & Depalletizing SystemsPicking, Sorting & PositioningBuilding Automation & ControlBuilding Energy ManagementDigital TwinFlexible ManufacturingMachine Condition MonitoringManufacturing System AutomationMaterial Handling AutomationProcess Control & OptimizationSmart LightingVirtual Prototyping & Product TestingWarehouse Automation | Advanced Metering InfrastructureFarm Monitoring & Precision FarmingMachine Condition MonitoringPredictive MaintenanceAgriculture Disease & Pest ManagementAsset Lifecycle ManagementDigital TwinEdge Computing & Edge IntelligenceFleet ManagementIntrusion Detection SystemsOutdoor Environmental MonitoringSmart IrrigationTrack & Trace of Assets | Predictive MaintenanceVehicle Telematics | Perimeter Security & Access ControlBuilding Automation & ControlBuilding Energy ManagementEnergy Storage ManagementPredictive Maintenance | Additive Manufacturing | Building Energy ManagementMachine Condition Monitoring | Machine Condition Monitoring | Manufacturing System Automation |
| Functions | | Discrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationProcess ManufacturingProduct Research & Development | Discrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | Discrete ManufacturingField ServicesProcess ManufacturingWarehouse & Inventory Management | Facility ManagementProcess Manufacturing | | Discrete Manufacturing | | |
| Services | | | Cybersecurity ServicesTesting & CertificationSystem Integration | | Cybersecurity ServicesTraining | Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesHardware Design & Engineering Services | | Training | System Integration |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | Minor | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | None | Minor | Strong | Minor | None | None | None | None | None |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | None | Minor | None |
| Functional Applications | None | Moderate | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | None |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | Minor | None |
| Sensors | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | Minor | None | Moderate | Moderate | Minor |
| Automation & Control | None | Strong | Minor | None | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | Moderate |
| Robots | None | Strong | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate |
| Drones | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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