The New Industrial Age of
Software-Centric Development
and Operations

Only 11% of industrial manufacturing companies already see themselves as intelligent systems digital business companies, but 55% of the rest are in a strategic drive to get there.¹

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¹ Forbes 2021: Characteristics of Intelligent Systems

Unlocking the Business
Value of Industry 4.0
Adaptive manufacturing
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The Engine of the Intelligent Edge
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As Featured in Forbes

Manufacturing And The Intelligent Edge: What, Why, And How

We asked industrial manufacturing leaders in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States how they are adapting their facilities to meet modern demand. These are the top five things these industrial leaders are doing to get ahead of the curve.

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Characteristics Of An Intelligent Systems Future: 12 Waypoints To Navigate Your Future Success

By 2030, $7 trillion of the U.S. economy will be driven by the machine economy. We’ll become data-driven software enterprises in the process. How we get there, and how successful we are, is already part of the thinking of leaders in organizations dependent on these ideas for business success.

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“While previous industrial revolutions have been around a new source of energy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to be about fundamental shifts in business models.”²

Unlocking the Business
Value of Industry 4.0

Manufacturing is increasingly software driven, blurring the lines between the physical world of machines and the cyber world of data and disrupting traditional manufacturing paradigms. “While previous industrial revolutions have been around a new source of energy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to be about fundamental shifts in business models,” says Fred Rio, worldwide product manager at Caterpillar’s Construction, Digital, and Technology division.²

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² Fred Rio, “Getting in Front of the New Industrial Revolution,” The Caterpillar Podcast: Beyond the Iron — the Power of Yes!, 2020

How Wind River Helps

Intelligent edge and Industry 4.0 technologies are enabling connected, automated, and data-driven companies to adjust quickly to evolving market demands and competitive challenges. Wind River^® provides a modern intelligent software platform and solutions that allow your business to meet these challenges with safety, security, and reliability built in.

Wind River Studio VxWorks Wind River Linux Wind River Helix
Virtualization Platform Wind River Simics Support for Industry Standards

Wind River Studio

For industrial development teams modernizing or transforming the development, deployment, and operation of their intelligent systems, Wind River Studio has been architected to easily scale to simultaneously run different projects with multiple operating systems and hardware architectures, all from a single pane of glass.

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VxWorks

The real-time foundation for control automation, process automation, robotics, and a wide array of industrial systems, VxWorks supports containers for industrial app deployment (the first and only RTOS to do so), C++17, Boost, Rust, Python, and more. And it's still #1 (VDC). Lower your procurement and certification costs while meeting stringent industry standards such as IEC 61508.

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Wind River Linux

Wind River Linux delivers industrial-grade Linux for control automation, process automation, robotics, and other industrial systems. It provides a combination of system-level security reinforcements, such as access control mechanisms and intrusion detection and prevention tools, with long-term security update strategies for deployed devices. With validated, maintained, and supported source code, as well as a comprehensive suite of services including CVE monitoring, Wind River Linux is certified for ISO 9001.

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Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform

Using virtualization technology to create virtual machines and software containers, Helix Platform consolidates and separates multi-OS and mixed-criticality apps on a single compute software platform. Simplify, secure, and easily update your industrial systems for manufacturing, control automation, robotics, and more.

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Wind River Simics

Enhance your DevSecOps process throughout your product’s lifecycle by using modern simulation and automation technologies to create digital twins of complex systems and run cyber tests (including pen testing) virtually.

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Support for Industry Standards

Wind River makes it easier and more cost-effective for technology suppliers to meet the stringent requirements of the industrial sector, with support for industry standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and more.

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