Global Convergence

Everyone knows that Cisco is a global company. But it is rare that we get to see so many of our international colleagues in one place at one time.

Automation Fair was such a place and time! Check out our counterparts from AMEA, Europe, and Latin America in this video shot live on the Automation Fair floor. Read More »

Tags: Cisco, Manufacturing, Rockwell Automation Fair

In 2-3 sentences

The team is back in town and recovering after a tremendous showing in Chicago for Automation Fair. As a preview for the blogs to come in the next few weeks, I asked each team member to summarize the event in 2-3 sentences – about 15 seconds of reading time. Here’s what they said: Read More »

Tags: andrew lach, Chet Namboodri, Cisco, Kevin Davenport, Mark Wylie, Paul Didier, Peter Granger, Rockwell Automation Fair

Cisco DMS

One of the demonstrations we showed at Automation Fair this week was the Cisco Digital Media Suite for Manufacturing. Cisco Digital Media Suite extends digital media to new applications for real-time and on-demand communications with flexible digital media creation, management, and publishing of content in various formats to multiple devices.

Here’s a quick video showing an overview of this solution and its benefits for manufacturers:

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Tags: Cisco, Digital Media Suite, Manufacturing, Rockwell Automation Fair

Congratulations Cisco team! Automation Fair has drawn to a close and we are celebrating a successful event.

It was so great to meet face-to-face with our customers and discuss all of the exciting technologies which are available to the Manufacturing Industry. We were particularly pleased that our customers now recognize Cisco as not only a provider of products, such as routers and switches, but also as a provider of Solutions.

Stay tuned to our blog for all of the in-depth discussion and analysis our team will provide from their experiences at Automation Fair. Please join the conversation and let us know what you thought of what you saw at the event!

If you want to see all of our social media activity regarding Automation Fair, visit our storify instance, which will aggregate all of our content creation, including blogs, videos, tweets and pictures into one spot. So follow this link to see all of our activity as it happened and to have a record of everything that we did:

http://storify.com/ciscomfg/rockwell-automation-fair-2011-autofair

Also, if you missed Part 1 of today’s event, view it here:

http://blogs.cisco.com/manufacturing/day-2-at-automation-fair-part-1/

Thank you everyone for participating in such a wonderful event!

Tags: andrew lach, Chet Namboodri, Cisco, Dan Kern, Kevin Davenport, Manufacturing, Mark Wylie, Paul Didier, Peter Granger, Rockwell Automation Fair

Wow!  Automation Fair has been quite a whirlwind today, and now it’s time to head out to celebrate a successful first day.

But, before that, we want to give you Part 2 of Live from Automation Fair (as promised):

If you missed Part 1, view it here.

Also, check out Chet Namboodri’s blog about his presentation today for Automation Fair’s Food & Beverage Industry Forum. Chet presented on the Business Value of Industrial Intelligence for the Food and Beverage Industries.

If you’re at the event and haven’t already done so, be sure to stop by booth #239 to see us!

If not, make sure to follow us on our storify instance, which will aggregate all of our content creation into one spot. So follow this link to see all of our activity as it unfolds:

http://storify.com/ciscomfg/rockwell-automation-fair-2011-autofair

See you tomorrow!!

Tags: andrew lach, Chet Namboodri, Cisco, Cius, Fluke Networks, Manufacturing, Panduit, Paul Didier, Rockwell Automation Fair