Toyota Boshoku to Use IBM Cloud Solutions for Engineering

IBM announced that Toyota Boshoku, a public company with a history closely related to Toyota, will be using IBM cloud solutions for automotive designs.

Toyota Boshoku is primarily developing textiles for vehicle cabin fabrics as well as filtration, illumination, and power train components.

The company has agreed to adopt IBM's SmartCloud Engineering Desktop, which will give the company access to "mission-critical 3D applications" from IBM and Citrix. "By incorporating Citrix XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro, IBM can virtualize and securely deliver 3D graphics or other intensive applications and high-performing desktops," IBM said.

According to IBM, Toyota Boshoku can use the solution to access centrally storaged engineering data via Desktop Cloud environment from anywhere. Using the XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro, engineers will also be able to view assembly data from a factory "far from the servers where the original data is securely located, without extending network bandwidth."

IBM is supporting its SmartCloud Engineering Desktop with six global data centers.

Wolfgang Gruener is a contributor to Tom's IT Pro. He is currently principal analyst at Ndicio Research, a market analysis firm that focuses on cloud computing and disruptive technologies, and maintains the conceivablytech.com blog. An 18-year veteran in IT journalism and market research, he previously published TG Daily and was managing editor of Tom's Hardware news, which he grew from a link collection in the early 2000s into one of the most comprehensive and trusted technology news sources.

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