Hewlett Packard Enterprise opens app store for factories

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it almost as easy for production managers to deploy new software to the factory floor as to their mobile phone.

Its idea is to simplify the task of integrating new manufacturing execution systems with legacy ERP and PLM (product lifecycle management) systems using cloud-based deployment tools.

To do that, it plans to put modern hardware on factory floors, hooking it up to a cloud-based app store — like a mobile phone for the factory, only bigger, as HPE Fellow Colin I’Anson put it.

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