Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced Express App Platform – Manufacturing, an on-premises solution integrated with Cloud28+, a cloud aggregator, enabling manufacturers to accelerate digital factory transformation.
HPE said the new platform, which is now available in MEA region, simplifies application deployment in manufacturing plants and unifies the operation of legacy and smart-factory applications.
HPE’s Express App Platform – Manufacturing eases the transformation and reduces the need for separate hosting of legacy and bespoke applications by hosting both old and new applications on one single platform in factory premises.
“The Express App Platform – Manufacturing helps customers integrate smart-factory applications into their operations to create an adaptable factory without affecting the current foundation of their ongoing business,” said Volkhard Bregulla, vice president, Global Manufacturing Industries at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Express App Platform – Manufacturing allows customers to deploy applications from the Cloud28+ catalogue with only six clicks via a seamlessly automated process.
The new platform — based on hyper-converged infrastructure HPE SimpliVity 380 — features the Express App Platform Intelligent Agent to securely download selected applications from the Cloud28+ catalogue.
The HPE platform leverages Docker container technology managed by Kubernetes to deploy the application in the Express App Platform environment on the factory floor. Infrastructure automation software, HPE OneView, automates the provisioning and management of the required compute, storage and fabric resources.
HPE has optimized the Express App Platform – Manufacturing to host applications that support a factory and its productions lines, including Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) applications like Manufacturing Execution Systems or Advanced Planning and Scheduling, as well as IoT applications.
CIOs can use Express App Platform – Manufacturing in association with HPE Edgeline IoT Systems to provide real-time sensor data acquisition, analytics and control, operated close to the production lines to deliver faster insights and agility.
