Posted by Brendan Wood
| Challenge | How FoundriesFactory helps |
|---|---|
| Regulatory Requirements: Complex FDA ‘and EU MDR regulations on cybersecurity and compliance. | Automated generation of SBOMs, reproducible builds, and traceability to simplify regulatory submissions. |
| Data Security: Protecting sensitive patient data and ensuring secure, reliable updates. | Digitally signed, encrypted OTA updates with phased rollouts and rollback capabilities. |
| Device Lifespan: Maintaining secure and compliant software over 10+ year lifecycles. | Integrated long-term lifecycle management with incremental updates and controlled deployments. |
| Update Reliability: Avoiding disruptions in patient care caused by update failures. | Reliable OTA infrastructure with built-in rollback mechanisms and phased deployments. |
| Development Complexity: Managing fragmented environments across hardware, cloud, and AI integrations. | Customizable Linux microPlatform with embedded DevOps, allowing CI/CD automation and flexible BSP integration. |
| Key Platform Features: Need for rapid, reliable development with continuous compliance and security. | Embedded DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, fully customizable Linux base, securable OTA updates. |
Posted by Brendan Wood
| Challenge | How FoundriesFactory™ helps |
|---|---|
| Scaling EV-charger installations is hampered by infrastructure complexity and the need to ensure availability, accessibility, and ease of use. | The platform offers an out-of-the-box workflow that accelerates mass production and lets teams focus on their differentiating features. |
| Security is non-negotiable from software development through manufacturing and for long-term over-the-air (OTA) management. | End-to-end security with signed artefacts and TUF-verified OTA updates protects devices for their full life-span. |
| Traceability and certification require auditable, immutable evidence of compliance. | Every build is reproducible, automatically generates an SBOM, and is logged for lifecycle governance. |
| Fleet-wide root-CA and device-certificate rotation is complex and costly to engineer. | Built-in tooling automates root-CA updates and periodic device-certificate rotations—no on-site intervention needed. |
Posted by Roger Edgar, Ryan Barnett
FORT helps robot builders and users to increase productivity and accelerate innovation. Using the FoundriesFactory platform, FORT was able to hit the ground running and speed their time to certification-ready hardware by around 5 months.
Posted by Sven Golda, Jimmy Nassif, idealworks
Founded in 2020 as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW Group and based in Munich, Germany, idealworks has grown to form a global team, focused on enabling the logistics of the future by raising the bar in robotics technology through a robotics ecosystem.
idealworks provides a holistic approach to logistics automation, including their intelligent automation platform AnyFleet for seamless mobile robot integration, the CE-certified AMR iw.hub, and robotic intelligence via the robotics operating system iw.os, all within the idealworks ecosystem.
Posted by David Baur, Trina Watt
Aeler is a Swiss AI-driven company designing hardware and software to meet fundamental logistics requirements by revamping the standard shipping container. Aeler envisions a world where logistics operations are efficient, clean and intelligent. To that end, they believe that building the next-gen intermodal container, one of global trade’s core components, will enable a new era of both economical and environmental efficiency.
Posted by George Grey, Micah Green
Maidbot provides safe and cost efficient automated systems, delivering unprecedented value to hotel operators, room attendants and hotel guests. Their flagship product, Rosie, is the world's first housekeeping robot, cleaning the floors of small and large spaces in hotels, airports, shopping malls and universities. She also functions as an indoor mobile data platform, collecting and analyzing invaluable and actionable business data including temperature, air quality and foot traffic. Using LiDAR technology to navigate, Rosie has omnidirectional wheels for ease of movement.