Alliance to enable intelligent factories by simplifying
complexity and helping empower customers to achieve sustainability
goals and operational excellence
DUSSELDORF, Germany,
April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company
dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has
announced it is working with Microsoft on three significant
technology innovations that will be on display at Hannover Messe,
22-26 April.
"Rockwell's partnership with Microsoft is a shared vision of
creating and delivering the best solutions to empower the future of
industrial operations," said Nicole
Denil, global vice president, market access, Rockwell
Automation. "We simplify complexity in how manufacturers design,
operate, and maintain their enterprises and empower their people.
Visitors to the Rockwell stand in the Microsoft booth at Hannover
Messe will see how Rockwell Automation helps empower leading
manufacturers globally to reduce waste in their operations and
achieve sustainability goals through streamlined industry
solutions."
With Rockwell's FactoryTalk edge and cloud solutions,
manufacturers bring together artificial intelligence, IoT, and
automation solutions to allow people, processes, and technology to
operate seamlessly between physical and digital environments. With
Microsoft Azure's adaptive cloud approach, manufacturers can
unify and streamline siloed teams, sites and systems while scaling
applications and insights. Together, Rockwell and Microsoft will
provide cutting-edge industrial transformation solutions across the
value chain, rapidly and at scale, with AI-assisted design,
connected data, and agile production optimization.
Additionally, the recently announced partnership between NVIDIA,
Rockwell and Microsoft allows the creation, real-time
management, and simulation of digital twins that will be
accelerated with the use of Microsoft's AI assisted tools and cloud
technology.
Finally, with the integration of Rockwell Automation's Plex
manufacturing execution system (MES) with FactoryTalk® DataMosaix™
and Microsoft's Cloud for Manufacturing, manufacturers benefit from
transformative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help drive
productivity, safety, and quality. These tools focus on resolving
quality issues with corrective actions and root cause analysis.
These key technologies and more will be on display at the
Rockwell location within the Microsoft booth at Hannover Messe,
Hall 17, Booth G06.
Bringing the intelligent factory to life
Innovative exhibits demonstrate how integrated digital twins and
generative AI expedite time-to-market as organizations and systems
scale. One exhibit shows how to connect digital and physical assets
for autonomous intelligent factories. It utilizes digital design
with differentiated digital twin simulation and artificial
intelligence through FactoryTalk Design Studio Copilot for a
simplified customer experience of industrial operations.
Also on display is a digital twin simulation of a quality
inspection process, inspired by Rockwell's customer Nestlé. The
digital simulation is augmented by a physical installation of
product sorting and autonomous material handling for packaging.
Production line sorting is represented through a factory digital
twin, imitating the manufacturing of one of Nestlé's products.
An OTTO 100, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) from OTTO Motors
by Rockwell Automation, will demonstrate the movement of packaged
materials through the factory, showcasing how automated material
movement can help improve production throughput and employee
resources. The final section of the system displays analytical
production dashboards in Microsoft Azure, highlighting real-time,
contextualized data egress to the cloud.
"Manufacturers are always looking for ways to drive
modernization, optimize efficiency, and reduce costs," said
Dominik Wee, corporate vice
president, manufacturing and mobility, Microsoft. "By combining
Microsoft's AI capabilities and trusted cloud platform with
Rockwell's industrial automation solutions, manufacturers will have
the tools they need to speed up these objectives and create smart
factories of the future."
Highlighting the power of Azure's adaptive cloud
approach
Rockwell is also an integral part of Microsoft's flagship
Hannover Messe display, where attendees will step into a design,
operate, and maintain environment for factories of the future.
Here, manufacturers will experience how to unlock agile production
optimization, AI-enhanced decision making, and repeatable
cutting-edge transformation at scale, using an adaptive cloud
approach to unify people, data, and systems. Microsoft is using
several Rockwell Automation hardware and software solutions, along
with technologies from the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™
ecosystem in bringing this vision to reality.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global
leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We
connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology
to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more
productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation
employs approximately 29,000 problem solvers dedicated to our
customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how we
are bringing the Connected Enterprise® to life across industrial
enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.
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