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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

BMW and Microsoft Team for Open Manufacturing, Smart Factories

An interesting combination of tech for manufacturing.

Microsoft teams up with BMW for the IoT-focused Open Manufacturing Platform  By Ingrid Lunden   @ingridlunden   in TechCrunch

Car companies are making big investments in technology to help ensure that they are not cut out of the next generation of transportation and automotive manufacturing, and today came the latest development in that trend.

The BMW Group and Microsoft announced they would team up in a new effort called the Open Manufacturing Platform, aimed at developing and encouraging more collaborative IoT development in the manufacturing sector, focusing on smart factory solutions and building standards to develop them in areas like machine connectivity and on-premises systems integration. .... " 


Microsoft and BMW launch smart factory initiative    By Mike Wheatley in SiliconAngle

Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with BMW AG on an initiative designed to help manufacturers build so-called “smart factories” that leverage “internet of things” and cloud computing technologies.

The Open Manufacturing Platform is an “open technology framework” targeted at companies in the automotive sector and other industries that can benefit from more connected manufacturing systems, the companies said. The idea is to provide a reference architecture for smart factories based on open source components and an open data model, built atop of Microsoft Azure’s industrial IoT platform.

“Utilizing industrial use cases and sample code, community members and other partners will have the capability to develop their own services and solutions while maintaining control over their data,” Microsoft officials said. ..."

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