The partnership enables virtualisation and containerisation of automation software with Red Hat OpenShift.
ABB and Red Hat announced a global partnership. It will enable industries using ABB’s process automation and industrial software to scale rapidly and leverage its enterprise platforms and application services built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The collection, management, and analysis of industrial plant data are critical to improving the efficiency of operations while addressing safety, security and productivity needs. It is consistent with ABB’s strategy for the evolution of process automation.
The partnership enables virtualisation and containerisation of automation software with Red Hat OpenShift. It will provide advanced flexibility in hardware deployment, optimised according to application needs. It also offers efficient system orchestration, enabling real-time, data-based decision-making at the edge and further processing in the cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading Kubernetes platform, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its foundation, provides ABB with a single consistent application platform. This platform will be helpful for small single node systems to scaled-out hyper-converged clusters at the industrial edge. It simplifies development and management efforts for ABB’s customers.
Red Hat OpenShift increases the deployment flexibility and scalability of ABB Ability Edgenius and ABB Ability Genix Industrial Analytics and AI Suite. ABB’s Edgenius and Genix can be scaled seamlessly and securely across multiple deployments. With this partnership, ABB will have access to capabilities like zero-touch provisioning (remote configuration of networks) which can increase manageability and consistency across the plant.
