IEM helps with managing and orchestrating a set of edge capabilities to:
- Deploy edge computing that can scale when onboarding new use cases
- Bring transparency and trustworthiness to enterprise leadership with a collective understanding of performance metrics across multiple factories
- Support the governance and management of multiple applications and compute infrastructure from the near edge or cloud
- Streamline technology management (IT and OT) for optimizing business and operational activities at each facility
- Help reduce costs with multicloud strategies for reliable workload task allocations and, as a result, improve performance of real-time applications
- Prevent single point of failures and workload location biases with the adaptation of distributed computing
- Contribute to the standardization of best practices and guidelines across facilities for deploying edge compute infrastructure, thus reducing support costs
- Drive the individual facility path to smart manufacturing based on its edge ecosystem