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Siemens and Amazon Web Services collaborate to simplify IT and OT integration

November 28, 2023
By Manufacturing AUTOMATION

This collaboration between AWS and Siemens aims to accelerate the creation and deployment of Industrial IoT applications at scale that work seamlessly across the edge and the cloud by bringing data collection and processing closer to the machine and helping streamline data pipelines into the cloud. (Photo: Siemens)

Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are reportedly collaborating to simplify IT and OT integration. Siemens shares in a press statement that AWS IoT SiteWise Edge is now available on the Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace.

From there, customers can reportedly deploy it on Siemens Industrial Edge for centralized app and device management and combine it with a variety of other apps and edge devices, from Siemens and other vendors, to configure an IoT solution for their specific challenges. AWS IoT SiteWise Edge is an on-premises software that is part of the Industrial IoT services portfolio of AWS. It can collect, process and monitor equipment data locally, even without an internet connection.

Siemens launched its open Industrial Edge platform in 2018 and expanded it in October 2021 with the Industrial Edge Marketplace, an independent, cross-vendor app store where industrial customers can buy apps from different IoT providers. The Industrial Edge platform and Marketplace are part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, which creates an open ecosystem for collaboration between customers, Siemens, and complementary third parties.
“The addition of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge to our Industrial Edge Marketplace creates new opportunities to deploy edge and cloud applications at scale and manage closed-loop automation workflows,” says Rainer Brehm, CEO of Factory Automation at Siemens. “Our customers are constantly facing new challenges to boost productivity, flexibility, and sustainability across their production processes. To help them, Siemens is expanding its traditional strong OT portfolio by integrating IT and software capabilities into automation with Industrial Operations X.”
With AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Industrial Edge, AWS and Siemens will accelerate and simplify the machine-to-edge and edge-to-cloud experience. Customers need less time to start ingesting data into the AWS cloud and use further AWS services, e.g., for simplified data and workflow management or Industrial artificial intelligence (AI) workflows on the edge and the cloud.

This collaboration between AWS and Siemens reportedly aims to accelerate the creation and deployment of Industrial IoT applications at scale that work seamlessly across the edge and the cloud by bringing data collection and processing closer to the machine and helping streamline data pipelines into the cloud.

With this offering, automation engineers, maintenance technicians and operations managers can decide what data needs to be collected and where it is stored, processed, or analyzed.

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