At Hannover Messe 2017, Huawei and GE Digital jointly launched their Industrial Cloud-based Predictive Maintenance Solution. The new solution seamlessly integrates Huawei's Edge Computing IoT (EC-IoT) with GE's Industrial Internet cloud platform Predix to enable rapid end-to-end connectivity between industrial assets and cloud applications, allowing real-time machine health monitoring, data analysis and perception, and smart maintenance decision-making. In the digital industrial era, the solution helps manufacturers reduce maintenance costs and prevent unplanned asset downtime, as well as drive innovation in products and services.

Huawei and GE announced their strategic partnership in July 2016 and this joint solution is the latest achievement in their cooperation in the industrial IoT field. The solution integrates Huawei's EC-IoT gateways and Agile Controller, GE's Predix platform, other partners' sensors and controllers, and industrial applications to construct information channels between industrial networks and an interconnection platform.

The Industrial Predictive Maintenance Solution will be adopted by Schindler, a world-leading elevator and escalator provider. It will help Schindler centrally connect and manage its millions of elevators worldwide, significantly reducing equipment maintenance costs, and improving service reliability.