San Francisco, Oct 1, 2015: Infosys has announced that it would create new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, which will help derive practical benefits from massive amounts of data generated through connected devices in the industrial enterprise.
Infosys is a well-known global brand in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services.
Infosys has collaborated with GE, a digital industrial company, and others to develop these solutions, designed to help manufacturers and other industrial enterprises improve asset efficiency and build more intelligent linkages between design, production and field testing.
Incidentally, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an international body of industries, governments and academics focused on developing best practices for the Industrial Internet, recently approved two Infosys-led testbeds.
Asset Efficiency Testbed: This enables holistic monitoring, analysis and optimisation of critical infrastructure assets. The first use case focuses on predictive maintenance for an industrial asset such as aircraft landing gear.
Industrial Digital Thread Testbed: This creates more intelligent linkages between the three phases of manufacturing – design, production and field testing/service. By capturing, analysing and relaying real time sensory and historical data at each of these phases, the Industrial Digital Thread (IDT) will generate insights that can help field engineers and service teams identify the root cause of component failure easily, and provide faster corrections to flaws in design engineering and manufacturing operations.
According to the Infosys Chief Executive Officer Vishal Sikka, the IoT was about dissolving the layers of complexity and the intermediaries that created distance between the point of manufacturing and the point of consumption, between understanding and preventing points of failure in the manufacturing process, in machines or in critical processes, and between what the customer wanted and what was delivered. The value came from bringing intelligence directly to these end-points.
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