M&M Software (Suzhou): Industrial Automation with Cloud Technology

David Lu, Business Development Manager of M&M Software (Suzhou) said, “dXPERT is an open platform with highly configurable runtime configuration and dynamic creation of new devices and agents, a platform for innovative data-services in the cloud, with support for partners’ solutions of big data analytics, business intelligence tools, and domain-specific industrial applications and data visualization templates. dXPERT enables COLLECT data from any available source, ARCHIVE into the cloud, perform sophisticated ANALYTICS, VISUALIZE from any device and any place.” dXPERT is widely used in various sectors, including Device/Machine Builders, Remote Condition Monitoring and Management, Plant Owner/System Integrator, etc.

According to Lu, it’s time to include the cloud computing in the IA industry.” Nowadays, thanks to the ever-evolving technology devices become smaller in size, bigger in storage and smarter in functions. Those smarter, connected products enable the comprehensive monitoring of a product’s condition, operation, and external environment through sensors and external data sources. Central cloud-based device management system can reduce the maintenance cost by downsizing the human resource and abandon need for own complex IT infrastructure investment, meanwhile increase efficiency and accuracy by data-based decision-making.

Monitoring allows companies and customers to track a product’s operating characteristics and history and to better understand how the product is actually used.

The monitored data has important implications for design, market segmentation, and after-sale service. Monitoring data may also reveal warranty compliance issues as well as new sales opportunities, such as the need for additional product capacity because of high utilization.

This is the 5th time for M&M Software (Suzhou) to exhibit at IAS. As one of the top industrial automation fairs in Asia, it gathers many famous players. M&M software displays its innovation and software service capability to all the exhibitors and visitors.