Industrial Automation Magazine India

Telefónica Tech and Geprom to promote Dx of Connected Industry

Published on : Thursday 24-12-2020

The new deal covers the development of new solutions and extends their commercialisation to the international arena.

December 2020 – Telefónica Tech and Geprom Connecting Industries, a Spanish technology-based engineering company specialising in the field of industrial automation and digital transformation, announced a global commercial agreement to extend their collaboration in developing and marketing new automation, control and process monitoring solutions in the connected industrial environment.

These solutions help companies to manage production in real time; perform advanced planning and scheduling of activities; ensure the quality of manufactured products; and control assets and production efficiency. At the same time, they allow the control of logistics and warehouse processes in a totally digital, safe and sustainable way, contributing to the generation of new business models. The current Covid-19 pandemic has made it more evident that it is increasingly important to optimise processes and maximise productivity through digital transformation in order to maintain business competitiveness. In addition, this new agreement expands the portfolio of solutions with new value-added services such as the digital twin, predictive maintenance and blockchain, technologies that are increasingly in demand in the optimisation of production processes in the midst of the current health crisis.

The joint solutions developed by Telefónica Tech with partners such as Geprom facilitate the path to the wireless factory, improving the mobility and adaptability of production processes in all sectors, thanks to the use of 5G cellular technology and IoT sensors. Furthermore, the low operating latency of these networks; the convergence of all the management systems, control and production execution; and the integration into a single platform of all the data sources, facilitates decision-making in real time and unifies the production process.

The real-time collection of information also allows for advanced analytics by applying all the capabilities of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in a predictive manner. Additionally, the integration of blockchain capabilities allows for the traceability of the entire production process between multiple actors. In this way, the immutability and irrefutability of the data is guaranteed, as well as its transparency and security. These functionalities will allow for the integration of so-called smart contracts, a type of contract that facilitates the blockchain that eliminates intermediaries and contributes to simplifying the processes and digitally strengthening the relationship between companies.