Rockwell Automation

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Cooperation, co-development, co-opetition. What does it take to succeed in the “co-economy”? Just as the “sharing economy” has changed the basic assumptions upon which the hotel and taxi industries are built, the “co-economy” is changing some of the fundamental ways we think about developing and bringing innovations to market.

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Baby boomers are retiring at a rate that’s outpacing new talent onboarding, leaving us with a global skills gap challenge. Catch up on our April 11 #Ciscochat.

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I was fortunate to attend and present at the N.American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) last week.  It was an excellent chance to listen and learn from industry leading manufacturing executives around their best practices for lean/six-sigma, attracting and training the next generation workforce, and improving operational excellence. I was very impressed with BMW’s vision, specifically […]

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Join us on January 11 for a CiscoChat on how manufacturers can close the IT/OT knowledge gap, with subject matter experts from Cisco, Panduit, and Rockwell Automation.

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Manufacturing is alive and well in the United States, even in the most unlikely places – such as the beautiful Pacific North West. The manufacturing renaissance in North America and the resurgence of the freight and transportation industries has powered the recent growth of the trucking industry. Our customer Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is […]

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Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is paving the way in manufacturing, using digitization to revamp their factory operations.

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For DTNA, success isn’t just about controlling costs. It’s about building an agile company that can deliver exactly what the market demands—today and tomorrow.

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We are pleased to congratulate our industry partner Rockwell Automation for having won, for the third year in a row, the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Ethernet hardware Products category. This year, the voting session saw more than 140,000 industrial engineers responsible for automation, control, and instrumentation technologies. The final voting […]

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Recently, the article “Making IoT Pay in Manufacturing” in Forbes caught my eye with a few interesting statistics from a recent study: 71% of manufacturers say IoT will have a significant impact or some impact on their business over the next five years (24% and 47% respectively) Yet 24% have no company wide understanding of […]