Beyond connectivity: Belden’s growing relationships

At this year’s Hannover Trade Fair in Germany, the company outlined a series of industry relationships:

• HARTING: In a live demo Belden and HARTING revealed to visitors how far SPE can go today. The demo, a live video transmission via 1Gbit/s SPE over 90 metres, showed that the technical potential of SPE is far higher than currently specified in the standard. The partnership aims to continue to develop the technology for 1 Gbit/s SPE for a distance of 100 meters.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): At the AWS booth, Belden’s Vice President of Global Products and Solutions, Vinod Rana, shared how the work with AWS unlocked predictive insights and digital twin possibilities to revitalise a 95-year-old plant.
• TensorIoT: Both partners presented their project to modernise global manufacturing operations by retrofitting a 100-year-old plant through IoT and AI solutions to maximise efficiency. The joint expertise of both companies allowed for an integrated and scalable solution for which the deployment journey started with liberating existing data, before improving operations with advanced analysis.
• Digital Twin Consortium: Being a member of the Digital Twin Consortium, Belden’s Global footprint of Customer Innovation Centers aligns perfectly with the Digital Twin Consortium regional branch organisation, bringing together case studies and use cases that add to the collective intelligence of the overall DTC.
• Matterport: With Belden being at the front end of the customer’s Digital Twin journey, the partnership between Matterport, a 3D spatial data company, and Belden, provides industrial companies with the ability to implement visual immersive replicas of their physical spaces, allowing for remote operations, service and facility management and training.

Challenges that factories and plants face are becoming more complex and challenging, and as IT and OT experts, Belden is collaborating with other industrial automation leaders around the world to deliver integrated, next-gen solutions.

These collaborations and the Partner Alliance Ecosystem are designed to bring together complementary technologies to provide Enhanced Solutions Delivery for complex customer challenges with advanced, integrated solutions.

“We’re ensuring that our customers get access to the level of experience they are looking for from their tier one suppliers for solutions that will deliver breakthrough and tangible results,” said Vinod Rana, Belden’s Vice President Global Technical Solutions and Customer Innovation Centres. “This is taking industrial automation to new levels for maximum business value, underpinning the rapid shift in Industry 4.0.”

The Belden Ecosystem Partner Program helps create a critical path for information exchange to enhance all aspects of the customer journey to deliver a best-in-class experience. It is part of ensuring the global digital journey is simpler, smarter, and more secure and moves Belden beyond connectivity to a performance-driven portfolio, forward-thinking expertise and purpose-built solutions.