Meet Canonical at SPS 2024

SPS (Smart Production Solutions) 2024 is almost here! With over 1,200 national and international exhibitors, SPS is the main gathering of industrial manufacturing to experience the latest trends and developments in the automation industry first-hand.

Join Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, at SPS 2024 to discuss open source innovation in industrial technology. You can meet with the Canonical team at booth # 446, Hall 6  in Nuremberg and pick our technical experts’ brains about your industrial use case. 

Accelerate your Industry 4.0 adoption

Industrial is a key focus area for Canonical. We are fully committed to supporting industrial pioneers across their digitisation journeys by providing a best-in-class experience of consuming open-source software.

At SPS 2024, you’ll connect with world-leading suppliers who transitioned from manually updating legacy machinery on the shop floor to hardware-agnostic systems updated over-the-air (OTA). These forward-thinkers and innovators are pushing the envelope of digital infrastructure by adopting Ubuntu Core, the most popular Linux-based operating system (OS) purposefully designed for Industry 4.0. 

Ubuntu Core makes your devices smarter, enabling a smooth transition towards software-defined industrial manufacturing based on container technology.

Experience innovation

At booth # 446, Hall 6 we will also showcase how we are setting the stage for the future of digitisation in manufacturing and accelerating industrial transformation. 

Real-time and mixed criticality: While there is no available, out-of-the-box consolidated solution available today that shows hard real-time, TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking) and FuSa (Functional Safety), Canonical and Intel are filling this gap. In this joint technical demonstrator, Canonical and Intel will showcase a use case covering real-time and mixed criticality.

Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR): This demo in collaboration with Advantech primarily showcases the integration capabilities of AFE-R360 as an AMR controller. The main controller can be equipped with Ubuntu and a ROS2 environment to interface with 2D Lidar, four sets of Innodisk MIPI cameras, and the motion control portion of the AMR chassis. It provides autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities, while remote operations can be facilitated using the Cogniteam AMR remote and monitoring system for real-time remote monitoring, batch control, and simulation and adjustment of the AMR environment.

Proven ecosystem of partners: Come check out our ODM and Silicon partners and some of their boards enabled for Ubuntu. Learn more here.

Ultra Secure Ubuntu for Industry 4.0: For industry 4.0 to show its full potential in factories, manufacturers must overcome the boundaries between operational technology and the IT world. Ubuntu Core bridges the gap by porting those technologies which have proven successful in IT down to devices on the shop floor. 

With the end-to-end security ecosystem around Ubuntu Core, industrial manufacturers’ equipment and tools are now as secure as their servers. 

Reliable operation for Long Life: Ubuntu Core’s built-in security is not limited to the OS layer via bug fixes and CVE patches. Every industrial application on top of Ubuntu Core sits in a secure, sandboxed environment. Furthermore, Canonical maintains Ubuntu Core throughout devices’ lifetime. Industrial manufacturers receive a decade of ultra-reliable software updates on their low-powered, inaccessible, and often remotely administered embedded devices in the field. 

By using an OS designed for utmost reliability and optimized for security, world-leading suppliers and manufacturers are free to concentrate their efforts and redirect resources towards their value-add activities.

See you at SPS 2024

Book an in-person meeting with our experts to learn how we are building the future of industrial manufacturing.

Date: November 12 – 14, 2024

Venue: NürnbergMesse, Karl-Schönleben-Str., Messeplatz 1, 90471 Nürnberg

Booth: # 446, Hall 6

Exhibition Halls at SPS 2024

Let’s keep in touch

Your learning journey doesn’t end at SPS 2024. Discover how we are accelerating the world’s move towards Industry 4.0 in our webinar on the future of industrial automation.