10 industrial automation companies in the world's top 500
In the field of industrial automation, there are many century-old veteran companies. Recently, Fortune magazine published a new ranking list of the world's top 500, and this article picks out the top 10 industrial automation companies from the list. 1. General Electric Company Total revenue: $140,389 million General Electric has become the world's largest multinational company providing technology and service businesses, having acquired many domestic and foreign companies in various ways. GE has diversified into businesses ranging from aircraft engines and power generation equipment to financial services, and from medical imaging and television programming to plastics. In 2013, GE's Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt introduced the concept of the "Industrial Internet," an open, global network that connects people, data and machines, and through big data analysis, identifies the energy consumption of machines and improves the operational efficiency of equipment. In April 2015, General Electric (GE), together with AT&T, Cisco, IBM and Intel, announced the formation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), and GE also made a commitment to open its Industrial Internet software platform, Predix, to all companies. 2. SIEMENS Total revenue: $87,660 million Siemens AG is a global leader in electrical and electronic engineering. 2014 saw Siemens sell its stake in Boise Home Appliances and completely exit the home appliance sector to focus on electrification, automation and digitalization. Siemens digital enterprise solutions cover industrial software, industrial communications, industrial information security, and data-based services. Siemens' main products include, programmable logic controllers (PLC), industrial computers (IPC) and industrial operator panels (HMI), industrial software, CNC machines, low-voltage appliances, touch screens, etc. The nine businesses are Power Generation and Gas, Wind Power and Renewable Energy, Energy Management, Building Technology, Transportation, Digital Factory, Process Industry and Drives, Healthcare and Financial Services. Digitalization is one of the top three future directions of Siemens, and Siemens regards digitalization as a major growth area in the future, setting a target profit margin of 14%-20% for digital factory. In order to strengthen the strength of digitalization, Siemens acquired CD-adapco, a global engineering simulation software developer. Siemens digital technology helps companies to optimize, simulate and test in a virtual environment before actually going into production, and to optimize the entire enterprise process simultaneously during production, ultimately creating efficient and flexible production, achieving rapid innovation to market, and forging lasting competitiveness. 3. Hitachi Total revenue: $83,583.50 million Hitachi is one of the world's largest multinational conglomerates in Japan, consisting of numerous business divisions and companies, and possessing many technologies, prod...
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