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| Supplier Slogan | Visibility That's Visionary | | Ingenuity for Life | Inspire the Next. | A Model That Works. | Smarter Things. | | Listen. Think. Solve. | |
| HQ Location | United States | United States | Germany | Japan | United States | Norway | Germany | United States | United States |
| Year Founded | 1969 | 2002 | 1847 | 1910 | 1899 | 1983 | 1961 | 1903 | 1926 |
| Company Type | Public | Private | Public | Public | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public |
| Stock Ticker | NASDAQ: ZBRA | | ETR: SIE | OTCMKTS: HTHIY | NYSE: GD | OTCMKTS: NDCVF | | NYSE: ROK | NYSE: SLB |
| Revenue | $1-10b | $100m-1b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $100m-1b | $1-10b | $1-10b | > $10b |
| Employees | 1,001 - 10,000 | 201 - 1,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 201 - 1,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 | > 50,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | @zebratechnology | @stanleyhealth | @Siemens | @hitachi_us | @gdms | @NordicTweets | @Rittal_Ltd | @ROKAutomation | @Schlumberger__ |
| Company Description | The company designs and sells printing devices that print labels, plastic cards, tickets, and receipts. The company also makes equipment to read barcodes with its acquisition of Motorola Solutions in 2014. Its Zebra Location Solutions unit provides asset tags, call tags, sensors, exciters, and software -- all of which use passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) to help companies track and manage assets. Zebra Technologies serves government customers and many corporate clients in industries ranging from health care to manufacturing to retail. | STANLEY Healthcare provides over 17,000 healthcare organizations with visibility solutions and analytics to advance the quality of care. The STANLEY Healthcare solution set enables customers to achieve organizational excellence and superior care in five critical areas: Patient Safety, Security & Protection, Environmental Monitoring, Clinical Operations & Workflow, and Supply Chain & Asset Management. These integrated solutions are complemented by consulting, training, implementation and integration services. | Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe. With their positioning along the electrification value chain, Siemens has the knowhow that extends from power generation to power transmission, power distribution and smart grid to the efficient application of electrical energy. Featured Subsidiaries/ Business Units: - Digital Factory - Siemens Technology to Business (TTB) | 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 | General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company. From Gulfstream business jets to submarines to wheeled combat vehicles to communications systems, people around the world depend on their products and services for their safety and security.
Year founded: 1952
NYSE: GD | 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. | 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. | Schlumberger is the world's leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to customers working in the oil and gas industry.
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| IoT Solutions | Zebra builds Tracking technology and solutions that generate actionable information and insight, giving companies unprecedented visibility into their businesses by giving physical things a digital voice.
| | In the near future, billions of pieces of equipment will be connected to one another and massive amounts of data will pouring in. Advanced algorithms, high-powered computing, better connectivity and cloud storage all facilitate the emergence of smart systems. Knowing how to leverage the respective opportunities, however, requires a unique set of skills. Siemens has the engineering, domain and digital know-how to generate performance improvements across the entire value chain, from design to production and operations to maintenance. Digital simulation technology accelerates the plant design, the installation and commissioning as well as the entire product design and production planning process. Multiple components in systems and plants can be intelligently networked to communicate with each other and exchange real-time data. Machine Learning makes complex systems more efficient without human intervention. The intelligent analysis of operational data helps identify patterns and predict potential downtimes. Minimum downtimes boost reliability thanks to lifecycle services. | 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. | Information Systems and Technology develops, improves and secures the systems of sophisticated defense, aerospace and communications products. They have an established global presence in large-scale IT networks and systems, secure communications systems, command and control systems, imagery sensors and cyber products.
| 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 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. | Schlumberger Software Technology Innovation Center (STIC) collaborates closely with the numerous Schlumberger technology centers around the world, and with leading software industry partners and universities, to jointly develop software technology solutions to support the Schlumberger business and E&P customers.
STIC targets a wide array of software technologies including high-performance computing, cloud, big data, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet, visualization and user experience.
These technologies form part of their vision of how software and new computing technology will progressively transform the way they do things in Schlumberger, including the company’s software technology platforms. |
| Key Customers | | | ARUP Laboratories, Digital Realty, University of Michigan, HP, Polar Electro, Electrolux, ROJ Electronics Srl, Tokamak Energy, Grissom High School, Zipline, Bye Aerospace. | BMW, Cortal Consors, Die Mobiliar | Canadian Department of National Defence, UK MoD, US DoD | PeakColo, Suncorp, Thomson Reuters | Demando, ERF, Prosegur | Campari, INCO Engineering, Whyalla Steelworks | BP, Premier Oil, Rosneft |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | | Functional Applications | Analytics & ModelingAutomation & ControlFunctional ApplicationsPlatform as a Service (PaaS)Processors & Edge IntelligenceCybersecurity & PrivacyNetworks & ConnectivitySensors | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyDronesPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | | Networks & ConnectivityProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Sensors | Automation & ControlSensorsAnalytics & ModelingNetworks & ConnectivityProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Analytics & Modeling |
| Industries | Healthcare & HospitalsRetailUtilities | Healthcare & Hospitals | AerospaceAutomotiveBatteryBuildingsCementChemicalsConsumer GoodsEducationElectrical GridsElectronicsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceFood & BeverageGlassHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingMiningOil & GasPharmaceuticalsRailway & MetroRetailTransportationUtilities | ChemicalsConstruction & InfrastructureElectrical GridsEquipment & MachineryFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & HospitalsOil & GasRenewable EnergyRetailTransportationUtilities | AerospaceMarine & ShippingNational Security & Defense | | | | Oil & Gas |
| Use Cases | Indoor Positioning Systems | Indoor Air Quality MonitoringInventory ManagementRemote Patient Monitoring | Process Control & OptimizationAutomated Disease DiagnosisDigital TwinFlexible ManufacturingManufacturing Process SimulationManufacturing System AutomationPredictive MaintenanceVirtual Prototyping & Product TestingWater Utility Management | Energy Management SystemCybersecurityEdge Computing & Edge IntelligencePredictive MaintenanceProcess Control & Optimization | | Mesh Networks | Building Energy ManagementMachine Condition Monitoring | Machine Condition Monitoring | Predictive Maintenance |
| Functions | Discrete ManufacturingLogistics & TransportationProcess ManufacturingWarehouse & Inventory Management | | Business OperationLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess ManufacturingProduct Research & Development | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationMaintenanceProcess Manufacturing | | | Discrete Manufacturing | | |
| Services | | | Hardware Design & Engineering ServicesSystem Integration | Software Design & Engineering ServicesCloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesCybersecurity ServicesData Science ServicesTraining | | Software Design & Engineering Services | | Training | |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | None | None | Moderate | Strong | None | None | None | None | None |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | Minor | Minor |
| Functional Applications | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | None | None | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | None | Moderate | None |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | None | Minor | None | None | Minor | None | Minor | None |
| Sensors | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | None |
| Automation & Control | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | Moderate | None |
| Robots | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Drones | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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