Siemens, IBM, Red Hat start new initiative for industry

DUBAI: Siemens, IBM and Red Hat announced a new collaboration that will use a hybrid cloud designed to deliver an open, flexible and more secure solution for manufacturers and plant operators to drive real-time value from operational data. In one month, a single manufacturing site can generate more than 2,200 terabytes of data according to a report by IBM – yet most data goes unanalysed.

Through the joint initiative, Siemens Digital Industries Software will apply IBM’S open hybrid cloud approach, built on Red Hat Openshift, to extend the deployment flexibility of Mindsphere, the industrial IOT as a service solution from Siemens. This will enable customers to run Mindsphere on-premise, unlocking speed and agility in factory and plant operations, as well as through the cloud for seamless product support, updates and enterprise connectivity.

“Today’s manufacturers require agility and flexibility to meet expectations for higher quality products with shorter production cycles,” said Raymond Kok, Senior Vice President of Cloud Application Solutions for Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Manish Chawla, Industry General Manager, Energy, Resources, and Manufacturing at IBM, said, “We see that most industrial data is generated outside of IT – in manufacturing operations, supply chains or connected products – yet to leverage digital technologies, manufacturers choose to either send data up to their enterprise cloud, or bring the technology down.”