A large industrial machine manufacturer was looking for a secure and scalable solution to deploy machine learning applications to their machines for enabling predictive analytics and preventive maintenance.

Using ioTium’s cloud-managed secure converged infrastructure, offered as a managed service, the customer was able to rapidly deploy and run applications at the edge across all geographic regions; and manage and monitor the apps from the cloud for ongoing serviceability. The containerized apps were deployed securely to run in isolation from each other, and the customer had access to runtime assessment of each app through ioTium’s centralized orchestrator. All this was accomplished with no truck rolls, no on-site IT resources, saving costly local management and manual upgrades at the edge.

A large manufacturer needed to enable remote monitoring of their industrial robots across their portfolio of manufacturing plants. Their existing solution to establish secure remote connectivity to achieve this was labor-intensive, time-consuming, expensive and complex. The deployment complexities included:

• Truck rolls to each manufacturing facility
• Acquiring, installing and configuring routers, VPN concentrators and firewalls on-prem at each plant
• IT overhead for maintaining and managing these routers, firewalls and VPN concentrators
• Provisioning and managing multiple VPNs from multiple operators
• Managing usernames, passwords or keys for all these VPNs
• Requesting IT departments to punch holes to allow remote access
• Installing on-prem at each site the required protocol converters and additional software agents for each managed subsystem (actuator, transmission system, etc)

Using ioTium’s Converged Infrastructure-as-a-Service, the customer established a simplified unified architecture applicable across their portfolio of manufacturing plants to securely connect all their robots to their data center. The benefits of using ioTium’s seamless plug & play architecture included:

• No truck rolls
• No need for onsite IT resources
• No changes to the plants’ security/firewall posture
• No CLI (command line interface)
• No APN/VPN
• No usernames & passwords
• No on-prem configuration of protocol software adapters

ioTium abstracted out all the deployment complexities and minimized security risks through its zero-touch provisioned, cloud-managed secure converged infrastructure, resulting in significant savings in network infrastructure OPEX, fast time to market and enhanced security.