Hewlett Packard Enterprise has launched a new platform that radically simplifies application deployment in manufacturing plants and unifies the operation of legacy and smart-factory applications. Express App Platform – Manufacturing is an on-premises solution that is integrated with Cloud28+ and allows manufacturers to accelerate digital factory transformation while avoiding disruption of their ongoing operation.
“Traditional manufacturing applications support a stable, yet rigid automation of production processes. The Express App Platform – Manufacturing helps customers integrate smart-factory applications into their operations to create an adaptable factory without affecting the current foundation of their ongoing business,” said Volkhard Bregulla, Vice-President, Global Manufacturing Industries, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Deploy Manufacturing Applications with Only Six Clicks
Manufacturing allows customers to deploy applications from the Cloud28+ catalogue with only six clicks via a seamlessly automated process. Based on hyperconverged infrastructure HPE SimpliVity 380, the new platform features the Express App Platform Intelligent Agent which securely downloads selected applications from the Cloud28+ catalogue and leverages Docker container technology managed by Kubernetes to automatically deploy the application in the Express App Platform environment on the factory floor.
Agile Automation with Sensor-data Intelligence
Manufacturing is optimized to host applications that support a factory and its productions lines, including Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) applications like Manufacturing Execution Systems or Advanced Planning and Scheduling, as well as IoT applications. Running those applications directly on the factory floor allows manufacturers to better integrate operations management with machine control systems to leverage IoT sensor-data intelligence for agile automation of production processes.
Manufacturing can be used in conjunction with HPE Edgeline IoT Systems which provide real-time sensor data acquisition, analytics and control, operated close to the production lines to deliver faster insights and agility.
Express App Platform – Manufacturing is now available from HPE in the EMEA region. Global availability is planned for late 2017.
Tags: HPE, hpe application deployment, manufacturing plants, hewlett packard enterprise, Express App Platform, Cloud28+, HPE Edgeline IoT Systems, iot, internet of things, varindia
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