NI Subsidiary Joins the Open Manufacturing Platform
December 15 2020 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Participation will help drive the rate of
innovation and accelerate automotive manufacturing
NI (NASDAQ: NATI) today announced that its latest acquisition,
OptimalPlus, has joined the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP), a
consortium led by BMW, Microsoft, ZF, Bosch and ABInBev that helps
manufacturers leverage advanced technologies to gain greater
operational efficiencies, factory output, customer loyalty and net
profits.
The OMP brings together business leaders, technologists, systems
integrators, independent software providers and other contributors
to drive innovation across manufacturing. Open platforms and
standards unleash the power of innovation by removing fundamental
technological barriers and improving customer experience.
The OMP’s goals include creating a “Manufacturing Reference
Architecture” for platform-agnostic, cloud-based data collection,
management, analytics and other applications. This framework will
provide a standard way to connect to IoT devices on equipment and
define a semantic layer that unifies data across disparate data
sources. All in all, this has the potential to create a rich,
open-source ecosystem that enables faster and easier adoption of
smart manufacturing technologies.
In the same way that interpreters at the United Nations help
delegates communicate and make new policies, standardized data
formats accelerate the adoption of big data and machine learning,
creating a universal translator between multiple machine and
process types. OptimalPlus, now part of NI, will bring to OMP its
vast domain expertise in automotive manufacturing processes and
provide leading production companies with actionable insights and
adaptive methods from its big data analytics platform.
“We’re honored to be invited to join the prestigious Open
Manufacturing Platform, which plays a key role in helping
manufacturers all over the world innovate,” said Uzi Baruch, VP of
NI’s Transportation business unit. “With pressure mounting to
ensure quality and prevent faulty parts from shipping, it’s
important that manufacturers have access to the transformative
powers of AI, machine learning and big data analytics. We’re
excited to collaborate with industry leaders in the OMP consortium
to help manufacturers evolve and optimize their processes.”
AI and advanced analytics help to streamline manufacturing,
reduce costs and improve quality, reliability and safety. OMP makes
it easier for manufacturers to deploy this technology across their
operations and fulfill the promise of smart manufacturing.
About NI
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forward thinkers and creative problem solvers can take on
humanity’s biggest challenges. From data and automation to research
and validation, we provide the tailored, software-connected systems
engineers and enterprises need to Engineer Ambitiously™ every
day.
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