Industry 4.0 EIIR (Engineering, IoT, Industry 4.0 and R&D) Trends Q-3 2019

How are enterprises leveraging EIIR providers for Industry 4.0? (Deals/Contracts/ Partnerships)

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  LTTS is setting up a greenfield food manufacturing plant for a global consumer goods firm. The project is expected to be completed over a period of two years.

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  For an industrial automation company, LTTS won a deal to develop IoT firmware for next generation motor drives and controllers.

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  TCS is selected by a leading American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company, to improve the security infrastructure across its plants. TCS will standardize the current security landscape and provide IoT-based remediation services to minimize vulnerabilities and reduce plant down time.

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  TCS is selected by a leading American chemical conglomerate, for improving their plant safety by leveraging IoT-based TCS Digifleet solution that enables real-time tracking of vehicle movement and safety compliance within their facilities.

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  TCS is chosen by a leading Industrial Air Filtration (IAF) company, as its strategic partner of choice to design, build and deploy their IoT Platform-based Connected Solutions program for Condition Monitoring, Predictive Maintenance and Automated Service Ordering & Predictive Analytics to facilitate better services to their end customers based on real-time data & business insights, and improve their product capabilities and designs.

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  Dassault Systemes becomes Groupe PSA‘s digital partner. Dassault Systemes and Groupe PSA’s strategic partnership focuses on deploying the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that will be used as a key innovation enabler across the automaker’s activities.

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  Lonza selects Rockwell Automation for digital transformation of pharmaceutical operations. Lonza to use PharmaSuite MES software, along with FactoryTalk InnovationSuite to accelerate paperless, 24/7 production of cutting-edge capsules.

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  AF received a new assignment from Arla Foods in Denmark for project planning of a new production facility.

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  AF is awarded a bioproduct mill pre-engineering project for Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, in Kemi. It is the biggest planned investment in Nordic’s pulp & paper industry.

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  Wipro gets a 5 year deal from Montreal International airport operator ADM. IoT is also part of the deal.

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  Trinsic strikes a 5 year IoT deal with Vodafone IoT to connect Volvo Cars in UK.

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  Infosys is selected by Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) for providing cloud-based IoT and telematics product. As the development partner for TMHNA Global Telematics Solution (GTS), Infosys will enable remote monitoring and diagnostic capabilities including vehicle access control, system maintenance, condition sensing and location tracking. Infosys will help TMHNA draw insights from collected data to provide better service and improve after sales experience for consumers in the forklift industry.

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  Cognizant helped MG Motor in connected car and implementation of SAP enterprise applications ( ERP, MES among others).

How are enterprises organizing their Industry 4.0 activities? (GICs/ R&D Best Practices/Solutions)

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  A.P. Moller – Maersk got success in transporting mangoes in containers leveraging Remote Container Management (RCM) and Controlled Atmosphere (CA) containers. It will help improve export of perishable fruits and vegetables which currently needs to airlift which makes them costly. A good example how IoT, smart logistics can help farm produce.

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  IKEA is doubling down on smart home tech with new business unit. Earlier there was a news of Tata Croma, electronic retailer in India getting into smart home. Can retailers become significant players in smartphone segment?

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  Savio Macchine Tessili textile machine manufacturer as part of its Industry 4.0 solution, sends alarm signals to smart watch on operators wrist. Will smart watch find use on shop floor in Industry 4.0?

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  KUKA develops mobile manipulator robot for cleanroom chip handling. This is world’s first solution from a single source for wafer handling and blends seamlessly into the manufacturing execution system (MES) of semiconductor manufacturers.

How are Industry 4.0 providers building their solutions and capabilities?

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  One more IT service provider gets into engineering and Industry 4.0 with an acquisition and 360 degree partnership with an OEM. GFT Group acquires TRUMPF subsidiary AXOOM GmbH which focuses on smart factory solution implementation. In the process GFT also enters long term partnership with TRUMPF. I see this trend of 360 degree partnership with OEMs picking up with more engineering service providers.

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  Aspen Technology acquires Mnubo and Sabisu to boost its AI, visualization and AI capabilities. This will empower Aspen Technology to help its customers in getting more value out of their existing assets in process industry.

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  Accenture, Wipro, Deloitte and Storm Reply are first set of consulting partners for Industrial software for AWS. AWS starts program for recognizing consulting partners for Industrial software competency. These consulting partners will have competency in product design, production design, and production & operations.

Industry 4.0 news

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  Cinven gets software firm Jaggaer stake in $1.5 billion deal. Jaggaer specializes in providing cloud-based procurement solutions to businesses, including invoice and supplier management.

Industry 4.0 resources: consultant/ analyst updates

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  Roland Berger: German mechanical engineering sector: Between economic crisis and disruption. (Link)

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