Topic: The Industrial IoT has huge potential. As a Weidmüller distribution partner, you can benefit by adapting and expanding your range of services accordingly. In addition to the classic component business, complementary software and services play the decisive role for success. As a strong partner, Weidmüller offers a wide range of solutions with significant added value for customers.
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Roger Kroon
Vice President Global Distribution Management
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is becoming a decisive competitive factor for industrial companies offering countless opportunities to reduce operating costs and bring new products and services to market.
This development has a strong influence on you, our distribution partners. In addition to IIoT-enabled products you must increasingly offer your customers holistic solutions: Coordinated systems from the sensor to the cloud – including consulting, service, and suitable software. To succeed and take advantage of new business opportunities, you must adapt your organisation to these changes. Count on Weidmüller as your reliable and future-proof partner. We help you to successfully navigate these changes and seize new business opportunities.
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We set out a long time ago to make the way to Industrial IoT and automation as easy as possible for industrial companies. We do this with components and holistic solutions for acquiring, processing, communicating, analysing, visualising and using data. The goal is to ensure long-term added value. Complementing our ever-expanding product range for the IIoT, we provide matching software solutions that enhance the benefits of our hardware components.
Data transmission is crucial for IIoT. Our proven u-remote I/O system
offers flexible automation solutions for applications in machine and
plant construction.
u-remote ensures reliable signal and data transmission in real time, enabling powerful communication at control and sensor levels.
Determining machine faults via vibrations
Predictive maintenance is one of the best-known IIoT applications. With the communication-enabled u-sense vibration sensor, unusual vibrations in machines can be reliably detected. These can indicate signs of wear or beginning defects at an early stage. Together with the Weidmüller Gateway IoT-GW30, the data collected by the sensor can be easily stored temporarily, visualised and transferred to a cloud or local system.
Modular control of automation and IIoT applications
More and more physical devices need to be integrated into the IIoT. Here, our modular control systems u-control M3000 and M4000 point the way to Edge Computing.
Securely communicate data from the field level to the control level
The IIoT is about communicating data reliably and flexibly in the network. Our Industrial Ethernet components are the perfect connectivity solution for data communication. In each product group, they offer a wide range of functions and specific properties. Thanks to the extensive approvals, they can be used in a multitude of industries and environments.
Machine Learning (ML) helps employees work better and faster. It makes processes more efficient, improves safety, and encourages creativity. With Industrial AutoML from Weidmüller, customers get a simple and powerful ML tool that they can use without being data science experts. This means they can easily create and operate ML models using existing data and domain knowledge. The tool works completely hardware-independent and can be used in the cloud or on-premises. It's easy to use and integrates seamlessly with existing processes.
Weidmüller is proud to be a major software provider for industrial companies. We enhance our automation components with the right software, allowing them to deliver their full potential. Our software solutions cover everything from engineering and component ordering to machine and system operation. These applications are all part of our Industrial Service Platform easyConnect, which brings together all our digital services on a user-friendly web interface.
Industrial customers want systems that will last a long time, sometimes for decades. Therefore, longevity is often a decisive sales advantage. That’s why our products and solutions are very strong and durable. The same goes for our software, which is often what makes long product life cycles possible. We keep adding new features and functions through software updates and complementary services. This helps us respond to volatile changes in the customer's environment and meet their everchanging needs. By doing this, we also create a more sustainable basis and bring long lasting added value to our customers.
The IIoT has significantly changed the requirements for industrial products and solutions – and thus also the requirements for sales. In addition to the hardware for data acquisition and pre-processing, control, and data communication, today it is primarily well-thought-out software applications that add value to a solution for the customer. Weidmüller has already made a name for itself in this discipline as well and stands by you as a strong partner. We support our distribution partners with all our know-how and ensure their competitiveness. We provide online courses and training, develop measures to increase consulting competence and much more. Together we plan our success and secure our future.
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