C-Labs Corporation (TRUMPF)

Bring your business intelligence to internet connected mobile devices Give you workforce and value chain access to real-time KPIs Optimize your maintenance workers using smart scheduling. C-Labs understands the Internet of Things (IoT). The underlying technology is straightforward, but the implementation depends on context, application, and business need. For example, factory floors are very different from offices. Pushing a security update to a production line Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) during manufacturing could lead to disaster. And exposing that same PLC to the internet could make it vulnerable to viruses and theft of intellectual property. Likewise, unlike consumer-grade solutions, enterprises are not yet comfortable making their industrial processes dependent upon an internet connection and storing and processing data in a third-party cloud service. Requiring an internet connection to retrieve data from a local machine makes business processes vulnerable to communication outages and increases operating costs. And storing and processing data in the cloud, while often a good choice for historical analysis, can introduce real-time bottlenecks and reduce operational efficiency.