Manufacturing Magazine May 2026 | Page 132

TOP 10 SMART

FACTORY PLATFORMS

1. Siemens Xcelerator Xcelerator tightly links physical factory hardware with cloud-based AI and industrial software
2. PTC ThingWorx ThingWorx connects legacy factory machines with cloud-based analytics and augmented reality
3. Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing provides the compute power and secure foundations needed to scale AI
4. AWS for Industrial AWS for Industrial extracts data from siloed factory equipment and feeds it into machine learning models
5. Rockwell Automation Plex Plex bridges the gap between shop-floor hardware and cloud systems
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