Infosys, GE to co-innovate industrial IoT solutions

NEW DELHI: In a unique collaboration, technology giant Infosys has joined hands with GE to 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. These solutions will be designed to help manufacturers and other industrial enterprises improve asset efficiency and build more intelligent linkages between design, production and field testing.

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 and Industrial Digital Thread Testbed.

Commenting on the collaboration, Bill Ruh, Chief Digital Officer at GE Digital, said, “The Industrial Internet Consortium was established to help organizations break down the barriers of technology silos and support better integration of the physical and digital worlds. We see brilliant manufacturing as the next wave of Industrial Internet innovation, following asset performance management. We are excited about our most recent collaboration with Infosys to advance these two areas and drive increased efficiency and productivity for industry.”

Vishal Sikka, Infosys’ Chief Executive Officer, also said, “The internet of things is about dissolving the layers of complexity and the intermediaries that create 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 wants and what is delivered. The value comes from bringing intelligence directly to these end-points, and in doing this we can completely re-imagine the notion of industrial manufacturing, and every industry, and we look forward to doing much more in our work with GE in these areas.”