Crate.io & Zühlke: your shortcut to an industrial ecosystem

The road to your own digital industrial ecosystem is not easy. It involves billions of pieces of data extracted from a range of different systems, from a wide variety of sensors, in different formats and of variable quality. 

The upshot is that lots of businesses get no further than pilot projects and POCs. Few go the extra mile to establish their own digital industrial ecosystem.

What if we could offer you a shortcut to your very own digital industrial ecosystem? 

Crate.io and Zühlke are bringing together their expertise to offer you a simple pathway to processing, storing, querying and analysing your data in real time.

We have successfully helped manufacturers:

• increase their overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by minimising downtime, optimising set-up times and reducing product faults
• increase the proportion of product delivered on time
• reduce inventories

The road to setting up your own digital industrial ecosystem is far from simple, especially for companies with multiple locations and lots of plant. The main stumbling block is high levels of data heterogeneity. And that’s where crate.io’s revolutionary Crate.DB database system comes in. For large data volumes, it’s not just significantly faster than competitor products, it also features:

• easy scalability: easily scalable for more data and users
• SQL for machine data: ANSI SQL with elegant JSON support, full text search and dynamic schemas
• industrial time series database: optimised for industrial real-time data volumes
• IoT interfaces: simple IoT integration via Azure IoT Hub, Telegraf and other tools

Zühlke has been helping businesses get started with industrial digital ecosystems for many years. Thanks to our unique interdisciplinary expertise, we support businesses all the way from the initial idea to development of new, data-based business models. Using agile DevOps practices, we start small, but always keep our eye on the bigger picture. This means you enjoy genuine added value very quickly while your production department is gradually integrated into your digital industrial ecosystem. 

In a joint webcast by Zühlke, Crate.io and Microsoft you find out more about the shortest pathway to your own digital industrial ecosystem, and about what makes the combination of Crate.io and Zühlke so unique.

About Crate.io:

Crate.io is a company of passionate, experienced developers who’ve crafted a bold and clever database for the fast, data intensive world, making speed and scalability super simple, open, and accessible — a solution that’s built to be sustainable for all.

About Zühlke:

We believe that innovation and technology are a positive force of change for business and society. We support our clients to envision and create a sustainable future. 
Zühlke is a global innovation service provider. We envisage ideas and create new business models for our clients by developing services and products based on new technologies – from the initial vision through development to deployment, production and operation. 
Zühlke draws on the experience of more than 10,000 software and product development projects and supports customers in a wide range of industries.