Taiwanese embedded technology firm Ennoconn Group is collaborating with Google Cloud to create services for smart cities, smart manufacturing, smart retail, financial services, and media and entertainment, among others.

Ennoconn specialises in industrial IoT and embedded technology within design manufacturing services (DMS), IT and system integration. The collaboration with Google is aimed at transforming Ennoconn’s manufacturing systems and creating products, services and industrial manufacturing methods for its international customer base in core industries.

“We’re driving to become an AIoT cloud-services company and to create new business models around innovation platform convergence,” said Steve Chu, CEO of Ennoconn. “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 and services. 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.”

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 increase efficiency and save resources. It will also use Google Cloud’s computing, data storage and analytics to power its digital management production tools for more visibility across its design chain and supply chain, including manufacturing floor assembly, integration, testing and packaging. This, in turn, will translate into more streamlined design timelines for Ennoconn, and the ability to deliver more predictive designs, support and manufacturing services to market with speed and confidence.

Another core pillar of the collaboration will include Ennoconn building on its current worldwide IoT embedded technology, DMS, IT and system integration services and advancing its enterprise-wide digitalisation-as-a-service (DaaS) strategy to deliver Google Cloud-connected Ennoconn manufacturing products and services.

Ennoconn is developing information and operational technology, artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), AI and 5G-enabled services for its partners and customers. Working with Google Cloud will give it the added ability to monitor, maintain and control manufacturing equipment and processes digitally 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.

This integration and host of services also mean Ennoconn’s customers will be able to harness Google Cloud’s secure and scalable cloud infrastructure to deploy cloud-native support flexibly across their choice of on-premise, hybrid cloud or as-a-service models, thereby modernising their own operations.

Lastly, Ennoconn and Google Cloud have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate in different areas to power collaboration and communication across Ennoconn’s core industries.

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

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

With a commitment to digital transformation, Ennoconn’s DaaS strategy integrates and delivers manufacturing systems with emerging technology that address the demands in cloud data storage, machine learning, AIoT, 5G and cloud IoT integration with a strategy across all internal design, manufacturing and supply chain platforms and disciplines.