Employees at BMW Group plant Wackersdorf check for perfect quality in cockpit production
“ THE GREATER THE DISTANCE, THE GREATER LATENCY, AND THAT REALLY HINDERS THE USER EXPERIENCE”
Charles Ferland, VP and General Manager of Edge Computing & Telecom, Lenovo was locked up and not being utilised or analysed,” Jack Fung, Principal Engineer at Stackpole told Automation World. The company deployed Litmus Edge Industrial IoT platform, connecting to proprietary devices within hours using pre-installed drivers – a deployment speed that would have been impossible with traditional data centre architectures.
BMW Group demonstrates edge computing’ s sophistication in production environments, where the company processes vast amounts of visual data in real-time. Michael Schmidt, General Manager of Digitalisation Production-
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