Industrial Services Practice

Industrial devices have always been built for the long haul – but today, trusted components are reaching end of life status. Applications require more memory to support new features. New processors require more power. Devices require improved networking capabilities to facilitate remote management of devices and processes, and compliance with safety regulations remains a pressing concern.

As part of our comprehensive industrial solution, the Wind River Industrial Services Practice consists of a team of engineers with extensive experience migrating legacy code to a new platform and implementing new features without incurring risk or sacrificing reliability. We can help your engineers integrate new technologies quickly, maintaining flexibility with standardization. Combined with Wind River Education Services and support network, the Industrial Services Practice improves time-to-revenue by delivering reliable, high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

Benefits:

• High-quality, on time, on budget. Our services team has proven expertise in completing device software projects for the industrial market. We know how to manage complex development and integration tasks, ensuring excellent quality and timely delivery.
• Focus on adding value. By co-sourcing your integration and development work with Wind River Industrial Services, you can concentrate on projects that will deliver higher value and sustainable competitive advantage for your company.
• Insider ecosystem knowledge. Our consultants excel at configuring Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices to perform optimally with our hardware and software partner's products. We leverage this in-depth knowledge to deliver the best solution for your business, cutting development costs and speeding time-to-revenue.

Specialized Expertise
Wind River's global team of more than 140 device engineers understands the scalability requirements that industrial device manufacturers must meet, and we've built our platforms to address those needs. If you or your customers have unique requirements, Wind River can also create a customized solution. Our extensive industry experience includes IEC 61508 for regulatory compliance, networking standards such as TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, and IPsec, and safety networks for tagging and authentication.

IP Portfolio
While becoming industry experts, we've assembled a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that supports our services practice. Using this portfolio of customizations, accelerators, and enhancements can reduce the cost of your solution and decrease your time to completion. Wind River Professional Services will seamlessly integrate our IP into your solution and tailor it according to your needs.

Methodology
Wind River works within a precisely structured methodology that ensures your project will be completed within the estimated time and at or below the estimated cost, with the top-notch quality you expect. Project execution involves a set of management and development processes based on industry standards, as documented in the Project Management Institute's Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The PMBOK was compiled from the best practices of project managers across many markets and disciplines, and Wind River has applied these best practices to our industry-leading project management approach.

Industrial Services
Refined through years of successful project completion, our professional services deliver value, quality, and results. The following offerings from the Wind River Industrial Services Practice have been carefully defined for the needs of industrial device developers:

Requirements Discovery and Definition
Which features are essential? Which hardware platforms are the most suitable? What are the best-of-breed software technologies? We explore challenges, identify options, create development and integration schedules, and determine test and acceptance criteria.

Device Design|
Our expert consultants can help develop system requirements, design high-level hardware and software architecture, and assess your current technology. It is also possible to co-source your system design either partially or entirely to Wind River Design Services to help guarantee success.

Device Management Implementation Using Web Services|
This includes network topology, control mechanisms, upgrade scenarios and plans, data management, and rules-based routing or processing of collected data.

Integration of Wireless Networking Support
We can identify environmental factors that impact data movement, data integrity, and the ability of a given technology to meet project or application requirements. This could include integration of 802.11 (a, b, g) Wi-Fi, ultra-wideband, 802.16 (WiMAX), Bluetooth, or other stacks. We can help evaluate wireless silicon solutions based on existing target architecture, protocol support required, and complexity of drivers.

Network Security
As devices continue to become connected, network security for wireless and wired networks is growing in importance. Wind River has product offerings for 802.1x, IPsec, and EAP. If your client has network security requirements beyond those provided by our Platform for Industrial Devices, the Wind River Industrial Services Practice can assist with integrating, extending, and optimizing our products to meet your clients’ needs.

Hardware Abstraction
We can help you port existing applications across multiple CPUs more easily, as well as evaluate existing application code, language, and constructs to determine a suitable architecture port. We can also evaluate hardware dependencies, drivers, and communication stacks. Actual development work varies widely, depending on application complexity, certification requirements, and hardware choices.

Contact Us
Wind River Professional Services enables our customers to get the most out of Wind River products and solutions, so many clients prefer to collaborate with us throughout the entire development life cycle. The Wind River Industrial Services Practice employs world-class staff, processes, and technology to deliver value, quality, and results. For more information or to have a sales representative contact you, please contact us at 1-800-545-WIND (9463) or inquiries@windriver.com.