All things are created twice. First, there is the mental creation. Then, the concept is prototyped and brought into physical form. Device Solutions, an engineering firm in Research Triangle Park, partners big ideas with years of expertise to bring cutting edge technology into existence. Started in 2003 by wireless engineers Bob Witter and Chris Lamb, Device Solutions has grown from a concept to what it is today - the research and design department for Fortune 500 companies and individuals with extraordinary ideas. Whether conducting a feasibility analysis, developing software, or field testing, Device Solutions prides itself on understanding a client’s vision and bringing products to market in a knowledgeable, personable, systematic way. Device Solutions invents the future. Device Solutions offers feasibility studies, embedded hardware and software design and development, industry and carrier certifications and approvals, manufacturing support, and cellular data services. Device Solutions’ core expertise is in wireless designs, but it also has broad experience in the development of electronic devices across a variety of markets including medical products and consumer devices. The Device Solutions team can assist your company fill the gaps in your engineering expertise, or provide full turnkey service from inception to factory launch. Whatever the idea or problem needing resolution, we will help you bring it to market with speed and efficiency. Device Solutions has served as a CTIA Authorized Test Lab, and an associate member of the Bluetooth SIG. The company is humbled to be the recipient of the R.J. Reynolds Innovation Award, and the CWI Value Chain Award. As we move more fully into the Internet of Things, Device Solutions plays an integral part. An interconnected world will be powered by Smart Sensors and captured data, the centerpiece of Device Solutions’ offerings. This company is powering the future, one device at a time.

MPDV is one of the leading suppliers of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). They offer solutions for competitive businesses with innovative and sophisticated MES systems of high quality and a broad range of services. Year founded: 1977

Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. together with R. L. Drake Holdings, LLC - its wholly owned subsidiary - offer customers more than 130 years of combined engineering and manufacturing excellence with solid histories of delivering reliable, quality products. As a leader in the field of cable television communications, the Company provides system operators and integrators serving the cable, broadcast, satellite, IPTV, institutional and professional video markets with comprehensive solutions for the provision of content contribution, distribution and video delivery to homes and businesses. The Company designs, manufactures, sells and supports an equipment portfolio of standard and high definition digital video solutions, as well as core analog video and high speed data solutions for distribution over coax, fiber and IP networks.

ITW Linx has been manufacturing products for the telecommunications market for over 20 years. ITW Linx has been the first in the industry with a number of protection products for telecom and datacom like the industry’s first 66 block protector and CAT5E / CAT6 protection families. They have an engineering team in the US devoted to designing and testing to the toughest standards in the industry. They have manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and abroad to minimize their time to market and maximize our global presence.

The proposed MES architecture is based on the Internet of Things (IoT), completely linking all resources and the manufacturing companies' security needs. Consequently, shop floor and IT clouds should be separated. In order for the machine level to reap benefits from cloud technologies, a specific modification known as the edge cloud or fog, was employed. The central instance, the Edge Gateway, connects the edge cloud with the IT cloud. Therefore, shop floor components can communicate with each other in real time and the IT cloud can retrieve and manage the data. IT support in production plays a key role for Integrated Industry (Industry 4.0). In order to cover future production processes new standards and functions are required, which will especially affect MES applications. MPDV introduces a concept for the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) of the future MES 4.0.

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