Commenting on the collaboration, Diana Yuan, President of the Solutions Marketing and Sales Department at Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said, “The digital industrial era not only brings development opportunities for traditional industries but also creates challenges due to the interconnectivity of numerous devices, massive data computing, and intelligent applications. Huawei is collaborating with partner companies to explore the field of the Industrial Internet and address these challenges based on our expertise in digital transformation and cutting-edge ICT technology. As Fortune Global 500 corporations, Huawei and GE have leveraged their vast research and innovation capabilities to develop a powerful solution that helps industrial customers unleash entirely new levels of performance from productive assets, optimize maintenance operations, and become more competitive. In the future, Huawei and GE will jointly accelerate the deployment of cloud-based industrial digitized applications to enable the digital transformation of industries.”.
Harel Kodesh, Chief Technology Officer of GE Digital, stated: “The growth of the Industrial Internet depends on cultivating an ecosystem and a commitment to jointly creating solutions that accelerate digital transformation for industry. This new solution brings together the strengths of two outstanding companies – Huawei and GE – and is already driving positive results for innovation-driven customers like Schindler. These partnerships will help industrial companies leverage the Industrial Internet and propel unprecedented productivity gains.”.
Huawei and GE announced their strategic partnership in July 2016, and this joint solution is the latest achievement in their cooperation in the field of industrial IoT. The solution integrates Huawei's EC-IoT gateways with GE's Agile Controller, the Predix platform, sensors and controllers from other partner companies, and industrial applications to build information channels between industrial networks and an interconnection platform.
