[Info-vax] GE Predix Cloud Services

[Scott Dorsey]

 <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, near-real-time awareness
>of what's actually happening on the shop floor, and so on is soooo
>1990s. Apparently it's time it had a rebrand, and who better to help
>fund it than Intel.
>
>Folk might run their ERP in the cloud, they'd be insane to run the 
>manufacturing execution system in the cloud. Not that that's ever
>stopped management much so far. Cloud based performance analysis
>and diagnostics might work though, assuming (!) they can be done
>without breaking the existing systems and software. 

GE has been selling timesharing-based manufacturing systems since the
late-1960s.  They were pioneers in the industry, and no doubt will
never turn down an opportunity to rebadge existing products with the
latest buzzwords.
--scott


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