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Supplier Slogan | | New Automation Technology. | | Powering Business Worldwide | Enabling the Networked Society. | Inspire the Next. | | | Building the Smart Home |
HQ Location | Germany | Germany | Canada | Ireland | Sweden | Japan | China | China | United States |
Year Founded | 1960 | 1980 | 1984 | 1911 | 1876 | 1910 | 1997 | 1985 | 1985 |
Company Type | Private | Private | Public | Public | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public |
Stock Ticker | | | NASDAQ: BBRY; TMX: BB | NYSE: ETN | NASDAQ: ERIC | OTCMKTS: HTHIY | | OTCMKTS: ZTCOY | |
Revenue | $1-10b | $100m-1b | $1-10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | > $10b | $100m-1b |
Employees | 1,001 - 10,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 |
Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
Twitter Handle | @MitsubishiElect | @beckhoff | @BlackBerry | @switchoneaton | @ericsson | @hitachi_us | @sinomach | @ZTEPress | @QorvoInc |
Company Description | ME-Automation Projects delivers turnkey I&C systems, consisting of the entire field instrumentation, the switchgear, the remote control and control technology with the process management system PMSX pro and the relevant services such as project management, engineering, installation, commissioning, service and maintenance. | 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. | BlackBerry provides wireless hardware, software, and services worldwide. Its smartphones handle mobile voice, e-mail, and text messaging, as well as Internet access and multimedia applications. The company also provides software for managing mobile devices across a company and development tools | Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably.
Year founded: 1911
Revenue: $22.6 billion (2014)
NYSE: ETN | 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 | Hitachi is a highly diversified company that operates eleven business segments: Information & Telecommunication Systems, Social Infrastructure, High Functional Materials & Components, Financial Services, Power Systems, Electronic Systems & Equipment, Automotive Systems, Railway & Urban Systems, Digital Media & Consumer Products, Construction Machinery and Other Components & Systems.
Year founded: 1910
Revenue: $94.0 billion (2014)
TYO: 6501 | Sinomach is a key State-owned enterprise directly managed by the central government. Sinomach is a Chinese conglomerate with businesses covering four fields: machinery equipment R&D, project contracting, trade and services, and finance and investment. Its service scope covers critical national economic fields including machinery, electric power, metallurgy, agriculture and forestry, transportation, construction, automobiles, ship building, light industry, electronics energy, environmental engineering, aeronautics and astronautics. The group has a market presence in over 170 countries and regions around the world. | ZTE Corporation is a global leader in telecommunications and information technology. Founded in 1985 and listed on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, the company has been committed to providing integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value to consumers, carriers, businesses and public sector customers from over 160 countries around the world to enable increased connectivity and productivity. ZTE believes in technology innovation as a core value of the company, investing more than 10% of annual revenue in R&D. The company has established state-of-the-art global R&D centres in USA, Sweden, China and so forth. ZTE has filed applications for more than 74,000 patents, with over 37,000 granted. Since 2010, ZTE has been ranked among the world's Top-5 for patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) each year, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. | Qorvo ("kor-vo") enables customers to launch next-generation designs even faster. Their unique combination of talent, technology, scalability and innovation helps you eliminate barriers to bringing your most powerful ideas to market.
They believe that their new name reflects their company's commitment to keep customers at the center of all that they do," said Bob Bruggeworth, Qorvo president and CEO. "As a new leader in RF solutions, Qorvo will offer the agility, innovation and precision customers need for success in mobile, infrastructure, and defense markets. |
IoT Solutions | Industrial plants are operated, monitored, and controlled by means of process management systems. PMSX pro has been designed to fully meet all requirements in terms of availability, efficiency, expandability, and flexibility. It also features a high level of harmonized hardware and software, and includes a finely tuned range of standardized automation equipment. | 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. | The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly taking shape. Billions of smart devices, from cars and trucks to Containers and hospital beds, will create and share data. Data permission security becomes a major concern for enterprises.
The BlackBerry IoT Platform can provide the clients that control, providing a cloud-based solution that lets clients build and manage IoT applications and devices in a secure, efficient, and scalable way.
The BlackBerry IoT Platform provides a modular architecture to rapidly add BlackBerry and third-party services into your IoT applications and, once built, a backbone for these apps and devices to communicate privately. | With IoT, virtually any object, person or even animal can be assigned an IP address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network. For instance, a patient with an implanted heart monitor, a farm animal with a biochip transponder and an automobile with built-in sensors are all achievable thanks to IoT. Eaton's Electrical Sector and Hydraulics Group engineers are actively looking at integrating the IoT across a growing number of products. By capturing data that exists within components and systems and making it available, these products will be able to provide actionable knowledge to improve performance. | 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 the network of physical objects accessed through the Internet—essentially a "Connected Everything Platform." These objects contain embedded technology to interact with internal states or the external environment. When objects can sense and communicate, it changes how and where decisions are made, and who makes them.
IoT is connecting new places—such as manufacturing floors, energy grids, healthcare facilities, and transportation systems—to the Internet. When an object can represent itself digitally, it can be controlled from anywhere. This connectivity means more data, gathered from more places, with more ways to: increase efficiency, innovate in product development, increase asset utilization, enhance the customer experience, streamline the supply chain, and improve safety and security.
Hitachi Consulting helps apply IoT solutions to drive business value, ultimately allowing companies to be IoT innovators and become an "Enterprise of Things." Companies can learn more about Hitachi Consulting's products, solutions and expertise and how they leverage the diverse product portfolio of Hitachi to help enterprises quickly get value out of IoT capabilities. | Sinomach intends to construct the “SINOMACH Robotic Science Park” in Zhuhai High-tech Zone. By constructing the industrial robot science park and bringing in internationally known robotic enterprise and its advanced designs and sales market concepts, Zhuhai can promote its advancement of modern industry and boost the rapid concentration of robotic industry in Guangdong and in addition, the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry. | ZTE Network Intelligent Series Solution: ZTE uSmartNet network intelligent series solutions, including uSmartNet overall solution and intelligent sub-solutions in the three fields of wireless, transport and service. This series of solutions is the evolution of cloud-based network ElasticNet solution. Cloud native 5G core network Solution: Based on the Cloud Native architecture, ZTE Common Core uses lightweight virtualization technologies to divide network functions in details into atomic stateless micro-service components. The DevOps development operation and maintenance integration model satisfies the continuous and rapid delivery of services and achieve scenario-oriented slicing on-demand customization of 5G through flexible invocation and integration of components. The continuous integration and release of applications responds to the market demands more rapidly. Grayscale release reduces upgrade disks and promotes user experiences. ZTE Common Core provides stateless designs for faster scaling and higher reliability. | Drawing on nearly 30 years of providing industry-leading solutions, Qorvo continues to offer the products that enable the next generation of systems. From GaAs, GaN, SAW, BAW, CMOS and SiGe, Qorvo has the right technology, the right products and the right solutions to help you shape and launch your most powerful new ideas for a broad range of mobile, defense and infrastructure applications. |
Key Customers | Energieversorgung Oberhausen AG, Gelsenwasser AG, M+W Zander Facility Engineering | Wifag-Polytype Technologies AG | Silver Star, Air Canada, Ricoh | Boeing, Navistar, Tata Motors | AT&T, O2, Sprint | BMW, Cortal Consors, Die Mobiliar | | Vodafone, Canadian Telus, Australian Telstra, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Satcom, China Telecom,China Unicom, etc. | |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
Technologies | Automation & ControlInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Networks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | ActuatorsAutomation & ControlProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Cybersecurity & PrivacyProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Automation & ControlNetworks & ConnectivitySensors | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyDronesPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | | Networks & ConnectivityInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Networks & Connectivity |
Industries | Renewable Energy | AutomotiveConstruction & InfrastructureMarine & ShippingPackagingRecycling & Waste ManagementRenewable Energy | AutomotiveBatteryEducationFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsLife SciencesNational Security & DefenseRailway & MetroTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | AerospaceAutomotiveBuildingsEquipment & MachineryFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsMiningOil & GasRailway & MetroSpecialty VehiclesUtilities | AutomotiveChemicalsMiningTelecommunicationsTransportation | ChemicalsConstruction & InfrastructureElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsOil & GasRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | AgricultureChemicalsConstruction & InfrastructureEquipment & MachineryRenewable Energy | | |
Use Cases | Machine Condition MonitoringEdge Computing & Edge IntelligenceEnergy Management System | Building Automation & ControlPicking, Sorting & Positioning | Inventory ManagementTrack & Trace of Assets | Building Energy ManagementManufacturing System Automation | Predictive MaintenanceVehicle Telematics | Energy Management SystemCybersecurityEdge Computing & Edge IntelligencePredictive MaintenanceProcess Control & Optimization | | | |
Functions | Facility Management | Logistics & TransportationWarehouse & Inventory Management | Warehouse & Inventory Management | Facility Management | Discrete ManufacturingField ServicesProcess ManufacturingWarehouse & Inventory Management | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | | | |
Services | | | Training | Hardware Design & Engineering Services | | Software Design & Engineering ServicesCloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesCybersecurity ServicesData Science ServicesTraining | | | |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Minor | None | None | None | Moderate | Strong | None | Minor | None |
Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Minor | None | None | None | Minor | Strong | None | Minor | None |
Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | None | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None |
Analytics & Modeling | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None |
Functional Applications | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | Minor | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None |
Networks & Connectivity | Minor | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | Minor |
Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Sensors | None | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None |
Automation & Control | Minor | Moderate | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None |
Robots | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Drones | None | None | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None |
Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Actuators | None | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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