The cloud layer – KUKA tailors its IoT platform develop- Business cloud – public, private, on the Internet ments to the requirements of MSEs in the production meets business intelligence. or on premises mechanical and systems engineering industry. After all, the platform is avail- The IoT platform manages thing-related The Internet of Things platform (IoT plat- able to enterprises from all sectors and data processing and evaluation. However, form) – included in the term “cloud” – can be used across all markets. Partners modern production systems also need is the next station for data sets after the can thus focus entirely on their core a uniform, structured approach to com- edge. But what is it actually all about? competencies and can access established prehensive value chain and maintenance micro services via KUKA’s IoT platform. processes. Since all things in production will be In addition, our partners and third-party communicating with the edge via stan- providers of services for programming And that is exactly what the business dardized protocols in the future, these and optimizing individual components cloud makes possible. It provides access, data are now sent to the cloud. In this or processes can also be integrated. for example, to all historically captured context, the cloud is a computer infra- A community based on partnership thus data for process and component analy- structure made available by providers evolves, driving the optimization of sis – such as the lifecycle or maintenance such as Microsoft or Amazon in the form components, processes and production information of individual robots. As a of “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS). operations via a shared technical result, processes can be launched and The IoT platform in turn describes a plat- platform. run digitally. form on one of these cloud infrastruc- tures – “Platform as a Service” (PaaS). Good to know: KUKA subsidiary connyun’s IoT platform is cloud-agnostic and can therefore run on any infrastructure. The customer can therefore freely choose whether this should be a private cloud, a public cloud (“anywhere” on the Internet) or on the customer’s premises. So-called micro services run on this plat- form, like for instance authentication, role concepts, Big Data storage and processing, etc. It also enables features such as artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and event analytics. The IoT platform allows system operators to process the data from their producing things and to adapt processes on the basis of insights derived from the results. Hello Industrie 4.0�we connect you