Industrial Automation

Is it time to virtualize your factory floor?

6 min read

Virtualization of control systems in a manufacturing environment can be hugely beneficial provided you build a flexible, scalable, deterministic, and secure network to ease transition to a centralized pool of virtual machines.

September 13, 2022

MANUFACTURING

Visibility & Resiliency: Letting Your Factory Work For You

2 min read

Manufacturing visibility and resiliency offer great promise for manufacturers to optimize business operations and, at the same time, improve customer satisfaction. The golden key to pervasive manufacturing visibility and resiliency lies in the scalable infrastructure that delivers factory data in real time. This "restructuring" of your infrastructure allows your factory to be prepared for anything that can be thrown its way.

Energybox uses Cisco IoT to power smart, sustainable business

2 min read

Large multi-site vendors save millions of dollars per year with industrial IoT networks that capture data, deliver insights, and automate manual processes.

July 21, 2022

MANUFACTURING

Reduce Your Turbulence With An Agile Supply Chain

2 min read

Supported by New Supply Chain Architecture, companies can take several immediate steps to prepare for the future by re-imaging their applications, transforming their technology infrastructure to intelligent technologies, and integrating all ecosystem-based supply chains

June 23, 2022

MANUFACTURING

Want A Thriving Workforce? Consider Hybrid Work

2 min read

Unless we are talking about highly automated plants, manufacturing workers will always be on-site and unable to work from remote locations. It makes sense to provide this workforce with the same digital mobility and collaboration tools that office workers have — or risk losing a greater mindshare of next generation of workers.