Leading Industrial Companies Trust Wind River
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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
» Read the Article2 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
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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Intel® 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.
Intel and Simics are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. » Explore Intel Simics
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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Web Seminar
Industry 4.0 will require high-performance compute and control devices on the intelligent edge that can power both OT and IT workloads.
Web Seminar
In today’s competitive market, success means focusing on what you do best and leaving the undifferentiating OS to your service provider.
White Paper
Learn how Wind River and Intel® are melding technologies to deliver functional safety, TSN capabilities, and more.
Blog
Stay up to date with the latest insights into the evolving landscape of intelligent systems in the industrial and manufacturing sectors.
White Paper
Safety-critical industrial IoT applications require real-time responsiveness and security embedded in Silicon.
Video
See how a controller running VxWorks and using time-sensitive networking (TSN) ensures critical data delivery and proper operation on a flooded network.
Technology Brief
In the constantly evolving world of manufacturing and automation, advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are addressing the top priorities, namely: efficiency, quality, flexibility, safety, and cost - with development methods, tools, and services. This paper explores how.
Solution Brief
VxWorks delivers hard real-time performance, determinism, and low latency along with the scalability, security, and safety required for industrial applications.
