Accelerating Towards Industry 4.0

The momentum created by collaborating with industry thought leaders on emerging business delivery models, and the visibility into the reality of those models have been critical in creating positive organisational inertia towards realising the Industry 4.0 vision.

The ARC Forum 2018, held this past February in Orlando, revealed remarkable output as a result of collaborative disruption in the industrial, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Key contributors participating in the Open Process Automation Forum, including Schneider Electric, ExxonMobil, and Wind River shared insights gained from design exercises proving-out the capabilities of industrial grade virtualisation of L2-L4 industrial systems.

Commonly defined around real-time requirements, the introduction of Wind River Titanium Control provides high availability and secure consolidation of these workloads at the network edge. The output of these design efforts also demonstrated the cost savings of industrial virtualisation as the industry pivots away from purpose-built hardware, and towards COTS hardware solutions.

Reporting back on a successful year of validation, ExxonMobil demonstrated their vision of Industry 4.0 by selecting Titanium Control as the preferred OPA virtualisation platform for critical infrastructure and OT applications in their initial proof-of-concept.

In addition to preserving existing investments in intellectual property and development practices, Titanium Control enables production SLAs with industrial-grade six-nines up uptime, hitless upgrades, and extended lifecycle support – well beyond the standard IT-platform SLAs.

HIMSS 2018 takes place this week, and it is where Industry 4.0 business transformation objectives in healthcare continue to mature as bed-side/patient-side analytics provide the right data, to the right people, at the right time.

Titanium Control will be showcased as the high availability fog and edge compute platform enabling connectivity and interoperability across disparate virtualised systems. Wind River will be joined at the Intel booth by partner GE Healthcare and Medical Informatics Corporation to demonstrate how Titanium Control powers the intelligent edge at the patient bedside.

Wind River Titanium Control is at Booth #4421 at the Sands Convention Ctr. in Las Vegas.

Courtesy of Wind River.