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| Supplier Slogan | see. think. act | Power and Productivity for a Better World. | | | A Model That Works. | | | | |
| HQ Location | Germany | Switzerland | United States | United States | United States | Germany | United Kingdom | United States | Germany |
| Year Founded | 1915 | 1988 | 1984 | 1969 | 1899 | 1961 | 1994 | 1966 | 1898 |
| Company Type | Private | Public | Private | Public | Public | Private | Public | Public | Public |
| Stock Ticker | | NYSE: ABB | | NASDAQ: FLEX | NYSE: GD | | NYSE: DLPH | NYSE: JBL | ETR: KU2 |
| Revenue | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b | > $10b | > $10b | $1-10b |
| Employees | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | > 50,000 | > 50,000 | 10,001 - 50,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | | @ABBgroupnews | @Dellemc | @flextronics | @gdms | @Rittal_Ltd | @DelphiAuto | @jabil | @KUKA_Presse |
| Company Description | 
ZF is a global leader in driveline and chassis technology as well as active and passive safety technology. The company has a global workforce of 146,000 with approximately 230 locations in some 40 countries. In 2017, ZF achieved sales of €36.4 billion. ZF is one of the largest automotive suppliers worldwide.
ZF allows vehicles to see, think and act. The company invests more than six percent of its sales in research and development annually – in particular for the development of efficient and electric drivelines and also in striving for a world without accidents. With its broad portfolio, ZF is advancing mobility and services in the automobile, truck and industrial technology sectors. For further information please visit: www.zf.com | ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies. Their solutions improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their customers’ operations while minimizing environmental impact. | Dell Technologies is Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream, and VMware. We’re a collective force of innovative capabilities trusted all over the world to provide technology solutions and services that accelerate Digital Transformation.
| Flextronic has established itself as a global leader without equal in the categories of design, manufacturing, distribution, and aftermarket services. They are helping customers big and small solve the challenges of the connected age with over 100 sites in 30 countries, and 200,000 highly skilled innovators at the ready. Flextronics International offers turnkey manufacturing services to the world's leading electronics companies, including Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and Xerox.
Year founded: | General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company. From Gulfstream business jets to submarines to wheeled combat vehicles to communications systems, people around the world depend on their products and services for their safety and security.
Year founded: 1952
NYSE: GD | Rittal manufactures industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications.
| Delphi Automotive PLC is a high-technology company that integrates safer, greener and more connected solutions for the automotive sector. | Jabil is a contract manufacturer that provides electronics design, production and product management services. | KUKA AG is a global automation company with sales revenues of around 3 billion Euro and a workforce of 12,300 worldwide. The company is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automation solutions. KUKA offers its customers tailored solutions ranging from the core Component – the robot – to cells and large-scale systems. The company is headquartered in Augsburg. KUKA operates internationally for customers from the automotive industry and general industry. |
| IoT Solutions | ZF transforms the business across all three horizons by safeguarding the core to make existing products ans processes smarter and better. Then by enriching the core, which means adding new features to existing products using digital technologies. Finally by extending or redefining the core by creating a new product or service that is digitally enabled. ZF employs digital to innovate all aspects of business - products and services, product development, workplaces, factories and supply chains. | Our lives are touched daily by the Internet. It widens our horizons and improves our capabilities by connecting us to a wider community and their collective knowledge. A similar revolution in industry is connecting intelligent machines and the collective data generated from a growing number of electronic sensors. We are ‘seeing, hearing, and feeling’ our industrial processes like never before and this empowers the decisions we make to optimize performance. This revolution allows us to operate machines more safely, with greater efficiency, and with lower environmental impact, not just individually, but as complete systems, working in harmony to enhance power and productivity for a better world. For over a decade ABB has been working to develop and enhance process control systems, communications solutions, sensors and software for the Internet of Things, Services and People (IoTSP). These technologies enable their customers in industries, utilities and infrastructure to analyze their data more intelligently, optimize their operations, boost their productivity, and their flexibility. ABB is advancing the IoTSP by helping their customers develop their existing technologies, while keeping sight of our enduring commitment to safety, reliability, cyber security and Data Privacy. | By 2018, 33% of all industry leaders will be disrupted by digitally enabled competitors (Source: IDC) Be a disruptor by developing and deploying an IoT strategy so you can tap into the value of connecting the unconnected. IoT is becoming critical for organizations today to understand where new sources of value could come from in their industry – whether it is from operational efficiencies, better customer experiences, safety or even new revenue models.
Dell Technologies can help you become a disruptive force in your industry through IoT. We bring:
• The industry’s broadest infrastructure portfolio
• A curated technology and services partner program
• Proven use case-specific solution blueprints
| Flextronics, an innovative supply chain solutions company, announced a new 'era of intelligence' triggered by an increasing level of smart, connected activity. This new era will be as much about the creation and management of a growing intelligent network of sophisticated software and services as it is about intelligent products, even as it requires a thorough re-thinking and re-making of the objects, goods and products that surround us.
At Flex, they look beyond the Internet of Things (IoT) to a broader understanding of the Age of Intelligence. By exploring the insights and new ideas of this connected world, Flex hope to inspire dialogue that leads to bigger and better breakthroughs. With their new quarterly digital publication, INTELLIGENCE, Flex is providing a venue for thought leadership and new insights into the connected age. | Information Systems and Technology develops, improves and secures the systems of sophisticated defense, aerospace and communications products. They have an established global presence in large-scale IT networks and systems, secure communications systems, command and control systems, imagery sensors and cyber products.
| The Internet of Things (IoT) is an expansion of internet use that enables people, machines and elements including workpieces and objects to make use of new technological possibilities. All participants, computers and machines require distinct identification and communicate on the same basis. This makes the exchange of information (identification, addressing, data formats, transfer) standardised and uniform. Established technologies (hardware, software) from the IT domain can thus be used in new domains such as production processes and logistics chains.
Rittal is helping many companies participate in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity to reach Industry 4.0 integration, by adopting the modular structures necessary to help smart factories stay functional.In the Industry 4.0 era, data-controlled equipment and automated systems not only give managers visibility of what’s happening in their enterprises down to individual work cells, but also the power to effect change and avert disasters when necessary. Companies without an Industry 4.0 philosophy are more likely to be forced to deal with the after-effects of outages and miscommunications caused by data disconnects. | | | |
| Key Customers | Well-known- OEMs in various applications like Passenger Car, Commercial Vehicles, Off-Highway and Industrial technology.
Fleet owners all over the world with IoT / Cloud retrofitting solutions. | SPIE OSMO GmbH, Fastned, Hermes International, Waggeryd Cell AB, Xianglu Petrochemicals Zhangzhou Co Ltd., HeidelbergCement, Axpo Holding AG, Renewcell, L&T Construction, Cemex, Volvo, Hitachi Powdered Metal. | | Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, Fitbit, Huawei, Microsoft | Canadian Department of National Defence, UK MoD, US DoD | Demando, ERF, Prosegur | | | |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | | ActuatorsAutomation & ControlProcessors & Edge IntelligenceRobotsSensorsAnalytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareFunctional ApplicationsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Networks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Analytics & ModelingApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyNetworks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS)Processors & Edge IntelligenceFunctional ApplicationsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Sensors | | | Sensors | Processors & Edge IntelligenceSensors | Networks & Connectivity | RobotsAutomation & Control |
| Industries | AerospaceAgricultureConstruction & InfrastructureMarine & ShippingRailway & MetroRenewable Energy | AgricultureAutomotiveCementChemicalsElectronicsEquipment & MachineryFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsMarine & ShippingMetalsOil & GasPackagingPlasticsRecycling & Waste ManagementRenewable EnergySemiconductorsUtilities | AerospaceAutomotiveBuildingsCities & MunicipalitiesEducationElectronicsEquipment & MachineryFood & BeverageHealthcare & HospitalsMiningOil & GasRailway & MetroRenewable EnergyRetailSecurity & Public SafetyTransportation | AutomotiveBuildingsElectrical GridsHealthcare & HospitalsRenewable EnergyTelecommunications | AerospaceMarine & ShippingNational Security & Defense | | AutomotiveElectronics | AutomotiveBuildingsElectrical GridsHealthcare & HospitalsNational Security & DefenseRetailTelecommunicationsTransportationUtilities | AutomotiveConsumer GoodsE-CommerceElectronicsHealthcare & HospitalsMetalsRenewable Energy |
| Use Cases | Autonomous Transportation | Automatic Palletizing & Depalletizing SystemsPicking, Sorting & PositioningBuilding Automation & ControlBuilding Energy ManagementDigital TwinFlexible ManufacturingMachine Condition MonitoringManufacturing System AutomationMaterial Handling AutomationProcess Control & OptimizationSmart LightingVirtual Prototyping & Product TestingWarehouse Automation | Building Automation & ControlEdge Computing & Edge IntelligenceMicrogridPerimeter Security & Access Control | Additive Manufacturing | | Building Energy ManagementMachine Condition Monitoring | | Additive Manufacturing | |
| Functions | | Discrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationProcess ManufacturingProduct Research & Development | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingFacility ManagementLogistics & TransportationProcess ManufacturingProcurement | | | Discrete Manufacturing | Maintenance | | |
| Services | | | Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesData Science ServicesSoftware Design & Engineering ServicesSystem IntegrationTraining | Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesHardware Design & Engineering Services | | | Training | Hardware Design & Engineering ServicesSoftware Design & Engineering Services | |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | Minor | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | None | Minor | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | Minor | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Functional Applications | None | Moderate | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | None | Minor | None |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | Minor | None | None |
| Sensors | None | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | Minor | None | None |
| Automation & Control | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None | Minor |
| Robots | None | Strong | None | None | None | None | None | None | Strong |
| Drones | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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