Siemens launches the open Industrial Edge Ecosystem
Siemens, a leading provider of automation technology and industrial software, has launched a digital and vendor independent, cross-manufacturer App Store for industry customers. The marketplace serves as a transaction mechanism specifically for the Siemens Industrial Edge platform: an innovative IT platform which enables the scalable deployment of IT technologies and apps in the production environment. In addition to the Siemens Edge apps for the discrete and machine tool industries, third-party providers such as Braincube, Cybus, SeioTec and Tosibox have already started to list their products. Customers thus benefit from a broad range of software components, offered by numerous providers and manufacturers, which they can integrate into their manufacturing processes in a standardized manner. Today, the multifaceted offering already ranges from connectivity, data storage, visualization and analysis right up to machine monitoring, as well as energy and asset management. As an open software platform, Industrial Edge thus constitute an Edge Computing ecosystem.
Dr. Che is a Professor and the Director of the School of Information Security and Applied Computing in the GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Before his academic career, he worked as a system and network engineer in the IT industry for approximately 20 years. Dr. Che received his BE in Electrical Engineering and ME in Computer Engineering from Zhejiang University, his MS in Software Engineering from Bowling Green State University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wayne State University. His main research interests are cybersecurity and computational intelligence. He is the author and co-author of multiple research publications and holds several IT and Cybersecurity professional certifications.
