Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Comau Spa have signed a global cooperation agreement. The companies will join forces to pursue the development and marketing of solutions for predictive maintenance, that are based on modular hardware and software and designed to acquire and analyze field data (internet of things, big data analytics). These solutions are targeted at the manufacturing industry and in particular, companies operating in the automotive, industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and white goods sectors, according to the Industry 4.0 paradigm.

From a technical point of view, the solutions developed by the two partner companies seek to predict the potential occurrence of malfunctions or a full stop of the machines, and to intercept negative trends in production process quality (predictive maintenance system). In this way, maintenance and production processes inside the plants will become more rapid and efficient, thus benefiting the competitiveness of companies operating in global markets.

In recent years there has been a steady increase of technologies (IoT, collaborative robots, data analytics) and paradigms (Industry 4.0) able to reach and sustain the increasingly higher levels of efficiency, quality, productivity and time-to-market required of the manufacturing industry by the market. To address these challenges and, more generally, respond to the profound transformation taking place in production processes, Comau and Engineering are providing innovative companies with their expertise and experience in different but complementary sectors, such as the Industrial Automation (Comau) and Information and Communication Technology (Engineering).

About Comau 

Comau has headquarter in Turin, Italy, with an international network that spans 17 countries that employ more than 14,000 employees.

For more information, visit www.comau.com.

About Engineering

The Engineering Group has over 50 offices in Italy, in Belgium, Spain, Germany, Republic of Serbia, Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) and USA. The Group, with about 8,500 employees, manages IT initiatives in over 20 countries with projects in various business areas: finance, public administration & health, industry & services, telco & utilities.

For more information, visit www.eng.it.