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to be as differentiated, efficient and sustainable as possible. If you don’ t have a‘ sense and respond’ model with listening, scalable, measurable, agile networks and systems, you won’ t be able to connect and extract that value.”
Schneider Electric also announced it is working with established partners such as Microsoft and Intel, and new partners who the company will be working with to create or cocreate customer solutions and applications.
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, recently announced the launch of its next generation EcoStruxure™ architecture and platform to deliver IoT-enabled solutions“ at scale” for industry
layers of the technology stack through an elastic cloud backbone that leverages the full power of our partnership with Microsoft,” said Cyril Perducat, Executive Vice President, Digital Transformation and IoT, Schneider Electric.“ The platform has become the foundation for smarter grids, buildings, data centres and industrial plants, enabling our customers to reach new levels of efficiency and sustainability and provides a path to maximise the power of their operational data.”
“ Smarter, more precise operations is the future for every industry,” said Vernon Turner, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems at IT market intelligence company, IDC.“ Customers are looking for answers on how to best take advantage of today’ s IoT-enabled digital world
Honeywell and Flowserve collaborate
Honeywell and mining pumps, seals and valves company, Flowserve, have announced they will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things( IIoT) solutions to help industrial customers“ make their operations, safer, more efficient and more reliable.” The collaboration will be part of the Honeywell INspire™ program, Honeywell’ s joint customer development program for its IIoT ecosystem.
“ The key to an effective IIoT ecosystem is to have three things,” said Andrew Hird, Vice President and general manager of Honeywell Process Solutions’ Digital Transformation business.“ First, you need to have secure access to the data being collected; secondly the capability to analyse that data; and finally, you need domain knowledge to understand how to deploy information to benefit the operation. Flowserve’ s domain expertise in flow control

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