Google is working with Taiwanese industrial IoT specialist Ennoconn to create new industrial manufacturing methods, connected products and digital services for Ennoconn’s customer base in the smart manufacturing, retail, smart cities and financial sectors. The collaboration will accelerate Ennocon’s efforts to transform its development of a global AI-of-Things (AIoT) cloud platform.

The first aspect of the collaboration will involve Ennoconn migrating its business-critical sales, marketing, and operations systems from its on-premise infrastructure to Google Cloud to realise greater efficiency and save resources. Ennoconn will also use Google Cloud’s computing, data storage and analytics to power its digital management production tools for greater visibility across its design-chain and supply-chain, including manufacturing floor assembly, integration, testing, and packaging. This is aimed at streamlining design timelines for Ennoconn, and boosting the company’s ability to deliver more predictive designs, support, and manufacturing services to market.

Ennoconn will build on its current worldwide IoT embedded technology, Design Manufacturing Services (DMS), IT and System Integration Services and advance its enterprise-wide Digitalisation-as-a-Service (DaaS) strategy to deliver Google Cloud-connected Ennoconn manufacturing products and services.

Ennoconn is developing next-generation information and operational technology (IT/OT), artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), AI, and 5G-enabled solutions and services for its partners and customers. Working with Google Cloud should give Ennoconn the added ability to digitally monitor, maintain, and control manufacturing equipment and processes on behalf of partners and customers. It will also enable the company to unlock the value of component data and optimise its facilities and workflows in real time as a design-build manufacturer.

Ennoconn plans to develop and resell equipment and solutions for Glass Enterprise Edition 2, Google’s wearable computer for hands-free industrial work, and Google Meet, Google’s enterprise video communications and collaboration platform. The company intends to create Google Meet-compliant hardware and related products to serve its customer base across industries.

“We’re driving to become an AIoT cloud-services company and to create new business models around Innovation Platform Convergence (IPC). Working with Google Cloud as our strategic partner for innovation, we will leverage its infrastructure, platform and expertise to advance our existing DMS workflow and develop new cloud-based products, services and solutions,” said Steve Chu, CEO and chairman, Ennoconn. “By delivering innovative access to content and services in new combinations across multiple platforms, we believe we will disrupt the Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) industry and create value that differentiates us to our partners and customers worldwide.”

“Staying ahead in today’s hyper-competitive and globalised manufacturing industry requires leveraging best-in-class technologies to deliver value-added services. We’re thrilled to partner with Ennoconn to accelerate its Digitalisation-as-a-Service strategy, and to explore new solutions and services that have the potential to transform the design and manufacturing supply chain,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.