IT and software consulting provider CENIT AG and consulting firm DELTA Management Beratung GmbH (DELTA) have agreed to act as strategic partners. By dovetailing their solutions expertise, the PLM specialists plan to open up a market lead in the Digital Twin sphere. They also intend to build real time data integration capabilities to drive company-level digital transformation in manufacturing and Industry 4.0. The partnership involves an equity participation by CENIT in DELTA.
For both partners, this means collaboration in a pioneering field: CENIT has established a market position as “partner for digital transformation”, while DELTA Management Beratung provides solutions associated with the Digital Twin. Both companies have expertise in the fields of product lifecycle management (PLM), digital factory and software development. By pooling their knowhow, the partners are striving to develop a portfolio with the potential to lift the topics PLM, Digital Twin and digital continuity. This is intended to benefit both new and existing clients from the manufacturing and production sectors – medium or large-scale enterprises from the automotive, mechanical engineering or aerospace industry.
The partnership gives both companies access to joint teams of experts who can realize strategic initiatives for key customers. CENIT and DELTA began initial work on joint projects even before signing this partnership, e.g. for major aerospace and automotive companies.
One important way in which DELTA contributes expertise to the collaboration is via its real-time cloud-based approach. Using a special technical model, the provider is able to enhance planning and manufacturing data with logical and contextual content. This in turn enables end-to-end digitization of manufacturing technology, production, logistics and process-related quality management. The company portfolio includes development of semantic real-time networks for mapping of business and manufacturing controls as well as digital lifecycle files that permit e.g. context-based Big Data analytics and AI applications in manufacturing control.
DELTA’s portfolio complements CENIT AG’s smartPLM initiative for the manufacturing industry. The prime goal of smartPLM is to create digital continuity along the entire value chain in manufacturing enterprises – and in collaborating with DELTA, CENIT is taking a step towards practical implementation of this vision.