About Rockwell
Automation
Rockwell Automation
Australia and Rockwell
Automation New Zealand
are subsidiaries of Rockwell
Automation, Inc—a
leading global provider of
industrial automation and
information solutions that
helps manufacturers achieve
a competitive advantage
in their businesses. The
company brings together
leading global brands
in industrial automation
which include Allen-Bradley
controls and services and
Rockwell Software factory
management software. Its
broad product mix includes
control logic systems,
sensors, human-machine
interfaces, drive controllers,
power devices, and
software.
are mature and can take a few years to evolve. In
IT, the timing is more in months. Like apps on your
phone, there’s always something new. By the time
a standard can form around it, there’s something
newer.
CONSTANT INCREMENTAL CHANGE
Initiatives need to be agile enough to address
emerging trends and technology. Right now,
that’s not the case. Industrie 4.0, for example,
plans to release yearly updates on its interfaces
and relevant standards, but is probably five years
from describing the requirements for compliant
products. That doesn’t seem realistic, because
we just don’t know what our IT and OT landscape
will be in a year, much less five. Some applications
in the IT space will evolve, gain acceptance and
become absolute within five years.
It’s smart to look for and implement improvements
continually. The goal is to sort through standards,
apps and services to find the right ones for right
now and to constantly assess using a cost-benefit
analysis. That’s how you determine where you can
make the biggest impact for manufacturing — and
find the next opportunity for improvement.
HARNESSING THE POWER
In just the past few years industry harnessed never
before-seen levels of processing power, mobility
and visualisation. We now can get any information
we need, from anywhere and at any time.
Standardisation is working behind the scenes, and
we continue to align The Connected Enterprise
with those standards to support smart manufacturing
in whatever terms you want to use:
Manufacturing USA, Industrie 4.0, China 2025 or
Industrie du Futur.
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