Huawei and GE Release Industrial Cloud-based Predictive Maintenance Solution

Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and GE Digital, a leading software company for the Industrial Internet, jointly launched their Industrial Cloud-based Predictive Maintenance Solution at Hannover Messe 2017.  The new solution integrates Huawei's Edge Computing IoT (EC-IoT) with GE's Industrial Internet cloud platform, Predix, to enable end-to-end connectivity between industrial assets and cloud applications, allowing real-time machine health monitoring, data analysis and perception, and smart maintenance decision-making.  In the digital industrial era, the solution is designed to help manufacturers reduce maintenance costs and prevent unplanned asset downtime, as well as to help increase innovation in products and services.

Huawei and GE announced their strategic partnership in July 2016 and this joint solution is the latest introduction in their cooperation in the industrial IoT field.  The solution integrates Huawei's EC-IoT gateways and Agile Controller, GE's Predix platform, other partners' sensors and controllers, and industrial applications to construct information channels between industrial networks and an interconnection platform.

It was also announced that this new Industrial Predictive Maintenance Solution will be adopted by Schindler, a leading elevator and escalator provider.  It will help Schindler centrally connect and manage its millions of elevators worldwide, helping to reduce equipment maintenance costs and improve service reliability.

Keywords: Industrial Assets, Cloud Applications, Predictive Maintenance, Industrial IoT, ARC Advisory Group.