App-centric industry 4.0
Press release

Bosch Rexroth’s CtrlX automation platform, built on Ubuntu Core, reduces engineering costs by 30% to 50%.
What our customers say

“Building our new ctrlX AUTOMATION with Ubuntu Core has enabled us to create a software-driven industrial manufacturing solution”
Hans-Michael Krause
Director Product Management
PLC and IoT, Bosch Rexroth
Empowering industry 4.0 champions
Case study
Ubuntu Core makes the Dell Edge Gateways ultra reliable in challenging industrial settings with transactional software updates.
Ubuntu Core hardens Rigado’s IoT gateways with cryptography-enhanced capabilities like secure boot and full disk encryption.






Harness data to supercharge shop floor productivity
- Build smart industrial gateways with open source
- Real-time Linux support
- Connect your factory to the public clouds
- Deploy industrial apps on your machines
- Implement bespoke device fleet management
- App stores including OPC-UA, Modbus, MQTT clients and more
Industrial micro clouds
- Bring 5G networks and edge clouds to production
- Deploy AI/ML solutions in industrial settings
- Get latest versions and security fixes with over-the-air updates
- Offload IT infrastructure management to our experts
- Contract long term support services for mission critical software
Shop floor cobots
Speed, precision and quality
- Assure robots security over the long term
- Benefit from a managed cloud infrastructure for robots-as-a-service
- Boost developer productivity on ROS
- Leverage cutting-edge accelerated computer vision libraries
- Run deep learning inference engines, natively or in containers


Exciting HMIs and POS
Fast, fluid and designer-friendly
- Implement robust digital signage and kiosk solutions
- Upgrade your terminals securely, with reliable OTA updates
- Benefit from a rich hardware and software ecosystem
- Millions of smart displays have already deployed on Ubuntu
- Create rich graphical interfaces with Qt and Flutter



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Where the journey starts
IoT Professional Services
Bring your IoT devices to market in no time with our IoT Professional Services. Focus on your apps, we handle the rest.
IoT app stores
Get a private app store for your industrial devices. We handle cloud hosting and manage infrastructure on your behalf.
Ubuntu Server
Loved by developers and endorsed by sysadmins, Ubuntu Server is the starting point for technology innovation. Use the biggest open source software repository to build software-defined industrial assets.
Ubuntu Core
Ubuntu Core is an ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu, optimized for mission critical IoT appliances. Benefit from OTA software updates and security maintenance for 10 years.
What our partners say
“Canonical's commitment to ten years of support empowers us to commercialize business critical devices with the assurances our customers expect”
Advantech
“Intel and Canonical partner to accelerate OEM readiness to meet growing demands for optimized sector-specific embedded solutions on Ubuntu Core, with long-term support and maintenance guaranteed.”
John Healey
VP in the Internet of Things Group and GM of Platform Management and Customer Engineering
Intel
ODM-Certified and Silicon-endorsed



