Hi great to see you as part of our automation Fair 2023 in Boston this year, but you're
seeing this on demand so that you can review
and re-watch me even though I don't know if I do that myself,
I can't watch myself but happy to provide a always exciting session in terms of
highlighting what we're doing at Rockwell in terms of where we're focused where a lot of
our new products and launches. What about them are important and how do they
really Fit into the larger story of addressing customers needs and providing
customer outcomes based on stitching our products and services together in the right
way. My name is Chris Dornan been at Rockwell
Automation over 16 years now. So this is probably my 17th automation Fair
currently in the marketing manager for controllers and I/O within the business as
well as a focus on our process business and plantpax. So again, we'll start out
through his his kind of highlight of what we're going to
talk about and why and then some details on some of the new features to be made aware of
I think anything that we want to talk about starts with our main goal of being an
automation provider and that's really reflecting on the state of smart
manufacturing. I think in anything we do we want to empower you our customers to be
better creators of what you do naturally and how do we do that
with automation? So how do we make the operator?
Or how do we make you more impactful and what you do
and I think when we look at even the markets cape and
how are their customers talk to us, you know, it's crazy how even Moore's Law is
allowing technology to just increase it strikingly
fast pace. So how do you stay up to date? And how do you
take advantage of new technology to give you
appropriate capabilities? So
really when we talk about, you know, taking advantage of things like the digital threads.
It's and things about Cloud collaboration and you'll see that as we pray
as we go through our kind of product and Technologies today.
But really we want at the end of the day to allow new technology
to allow you to do things better. And sometimes that may mean that you have to
change your mentality that you know in my days back when I first started
and control
there was a set it and forget it mentality, right? I don't want to do anything with it if
it's working, you know, I only want to do things if it's
broken or not. But I think as we want to provide as a
takeaway here is I don't think you can really take that option
anymore. And how do we allow you to be proactive that means taking advantage of new
technology to perhaps increase your yield reduce energy usage be
more sustainable and there's a lot of times where
maybe your product today is still supported but it's not letting you take advantage of
new technology. So we want to highlight where that's applicable to you and provide what we
do in that. That context of why it's important as part of a solution offering.
Can we look at some of those statistics and in the manufacture like yourself perhaps,
you know, when we've sent out surveys, you know you the what
number one way that comes back from manufacturers
is how do they get into? How are they going to drive positive business outcomes and the
common agreement in the top answer if you will if you look at Family Feud was
the idea of using data and through better use of data analytics to make those decisions
and I think that from us us means how do we connect that pathway from the
devices instrumentation our own assets to have more information.
How do we translate that information? So that the end of the day
your operators can take that advantage of the information
within the right context to make better decisions.
How about obstacles, you know the obstacle that faces manufacturers like yourself is how
do I balance growing and doing that profitably without sacrificing
quality? So,
you know, that's a very important piece that we talked about and a lot of that in my mind
talks about how do we mitigate risks in allowing
customers to modernize and migrated to the new platform
without affecting the quality that you're delivering today
and that means taking advantage of the right resources.
The right product sometimes but the right
Services the right people that we employ in these in these cases to help you do that
effectively.
And at the end of the day, it does become it comes down to the people element regardless
what you see in terms of AI and allowing computers to make decisions
a skilled Workforce remains to be one of the top concerns. And the number one reason
that manufacturers feel that they either can or can't outpaced the competition.
So how do we enable your Workforce to be better to be
more capable have more information in the right information to make better. Decisions.
So again as you see when I talk about what we're doing and highlighting here, it's going
to be with that lens of addressing one of these concerns at the beginning and doing it
better. It wouldn't surprise you to see this next
slide that that how do you do things better? And how do I
do it without creating risk? What do we do to mitigate that risk?
That's all about technology and modern technology.
So helping you adopt new technology is really the best way that we can enable you to be
productive today, but also productive in the future whether that's allowing you to be more
cyber secure while doing those things and being protected when you are transferring
information back. Fourth but that is really a key highlight of our
direction to you.
This is a busy slide, but I think it's an important slide because if you put all these
things together that pretty much frames up our
if you want to think about of are connected Enterprise or how everything we do at
Rockwell whether that be software Hardware or Services fits together to provide a solution
to you at the end of the day you start at the top left. I might have mentioned this already
but this device is instrumentation drives per se they
are smart and getting smarter which means they have a lot more information at And that
could give you pieces of information that you didn't have access to before but it's not
just big data that's important. It's putting that in the right context. So that means us
having the knowledgeable experts that can put that data in the right context to the
operations to actually make effective business decisions. And so that information
may go the whole way to the top when you go next to the mes layer. That's where plant
operations live. And how does that information?
Automatically generate work orders or generate,
you know from a from a recipe standpoint may be buying more product and automatically
knowing when that happens, you know that feeds into any quality system.
How do you make sure that your golden batches stay golden that you continue to drive that
quality that differentiates you and your space.
That feeds through the the maintenance system. So a lot of Acquisitions explicitly
our acquisition of fix really drove that automated work order
function. And how do we automatically manage maintenance activities and send out
work orders where necessary? Also feeds into asset Performance Management
things that we do such as vibration monitoring just as an
example so that your high dollar assets we get knowledge of maybe when they're coming
to their end of their useful life and giving you those instructions to take advantage of
something before it breaks and causes downtime.
So, you know, I'm not going to hit all of these but when you start putting these things
together and then really layering on to that digital
threads if they see things like analytics at the end of the
How does machines and taking advantage of machine learning
allowing you to understand how your operators best work? And then the next time do things
based on that best practice? So again
important slide and it defines everything we do fits into one of these buckets and as we
talk about that, let's go forward and look at some of that specifically.
So I'm going to start mostly through the smart devices in the interconnection to those
devices going forward. So the armorblock 5000 I/O represents one of our I/O Solutions and
then when you see armor in front of our product, it's really been defined in built
to survive and live on and on-machine architecture or a hazardous location, you
know, you see things initially at the bottom of like ip66 through 69k rating. So
when you have caustic wash and you want to spray things down and Affect the I/O itself.
This is the kind of solution that comes into play here.
So a lot of this product like the I/O and the armorblock 5000 was designed not only with
that harsh environment capability but designed with security in mind. So how those
how do we how do we draw that threat of being protective of information and data access
through all of our products but doing that in a way that you can be flexible, you know in
terms of being able to configure those blocks with a lot of help and then really meeting
the industry the growing in distrac. Tree and Regional kind of needs or
parameters that come down that have to meet two to meet those location requirements or
important. We go to the next two to another I/O product
are Flex 5000 I/O again. This is important a lot of times for our process Industries as
well. When you have capabilities such as Channel isolation, or you want to have safety
rated I/O or you want to be able to talk to process networks such as heart.
So the capability of here of filling out the rest of the portfolio allowing you to have a
lot of card choices to connect to any devices that are out in your field so that
ability Then the even on the same rack to mix and matching standard and safety. You see
that difference between the red and say gray IO the red being safety
but being on that same rack together is extremely important, especially for
architectures that need to be optimized for a size and cost perspective.
Again, you see a lot of spec specifications on what this IO provides
our mentality from a Rockwell perspective is to not limit those choices based on
capability, but then providing you the Right footprint right cost for what you need
to do. So if you need Channel isolation, or if you need heart
now at times, you don't have to choose a specific type of I/O to get there. We want to
build that capability across and that's really reflected in a lot of our
Flex 5000 IO product is to provide that capability that maybe you thought was only
available in controllogix I/O but bringing that out to distribute it IO.
Next when we start looking at the controller's, you know, our micro800 line of
controllers is very important. When you start looking at the controller's being the brain
of any system, but being able to take advantage of technology and being able to
have the latest and greatest in terms of controller firmware the ability to to
modernize to the latest and greatest. So a lot of times if you're still using our slick
products and so forth having that modernization path to the to the
micro800 line, advantage of the connected components
workbench tool and if you start looking at how you'll see in a little bit of our logixai
line of compact to control, you know, the scalability of controllers is important and a
lot of what we've done in terms of the connected components workbench is if you do
choose to modernize to logixai
logic Splat form as well. So that compatibility is also important not only for
forward modernization, but you know that ability to migrate from our selection so for
to microcontrollers again it this is a line of controllers that's really important
focused on that cost footprint and size footprint that's needed for a lot of
applications. Can you talk to head of this a little bit but
the software that that is resident on the microlight of controllers is the connected
components workbench. So the latest version there is version 22 continues to build upon
capabilities, you know the function set and being able to allow ease of use for
not only Engineers but users going forward here. So, you know, it's just some note that
we continue to evolve this platform with evolving software.
Says that give more power that are secure
and that are arranged to the industries that you plan from Material Handling through oil
and gas.
If we start looking at some of our drives and other armor product here, so the armor
kinetics distributed Servo drives again Focus to be on machine focused and you see
some options there of having four frames allowing a support to Motors up to 5.5
kilowatts, but it's really an extension of the 5700 line designed for field mounting.
And again, this is where you want to have something robust enough that could sit and
deal with the elements. So you know that enablement
Of motion of processes that deal with
dedicated motion capability with a wide power range of need
being able to provide a small footprint with high-power
and that's just some of the capabilities with our armor Kinetix distributed server or
drives that are actually available now.
We look at our motor control and protection. So again, you continue to look at these
assets and devices that may be on the level 0 of a Purdue model
that not only provide capability, but now have more information to provide that can
help in certain areas. So you see some of these capabilities of circuit
breakers contactors and so forth but are designed and tested
to maximize the productivity of your system and a minimize downtime. So whether or not
that's information that tells you it's device health
And then promoting it up through the system so that you can make decisions before your
down that kind of goes to the highest level of
how do we take information and data not only from the devices at the lower end
but taking the advantage to Auto populate that information out so you don't write code
to look back and say is this working or not, but taking advantage
of the product itself to to self diagnose
when there's problems here, so and they are designed to facilitate fast
and easy. Placement if needed a lot of capabilities of for wide-ranging
cells and wide current ranges.
So just a couple notes Here on on some of our products there again that are available now.
We look at some of our intelligent track system work. And again, this is extremely
important and a lot of our discrete process any time where you're moving product
around that ability through here of our expertise in
this area really shines through so the itraq 5750 that that we're targeting for
the second quarter of fiscal year twenty four.
It really enables you to transform your machine performance actually
using faster and more flexible solutions that the itraq 57:15 makes
Possible, you know, you're increasing your output
you're achieving profitability. You're raising quality
and really from a sustainability basis of having solid-state components that last
longer and use less energy. That was one of the threads you saw before
and obviously something that's important to you that there are a lot of
say directives in your own companies that that are looking at your carbon footprint
that are looking at how do you take better advantage of your assets
so that you're not Seeing them that they last longer and use less energy.
This is one of those things that drive to maybe what you have today is working
but is it being that most sustainable option for you?
You know, and maybe you want to be proactive and look at Solutions taking advantage of the
itraq 5750 that does you sustainable components
that use less energy as part of Meeting those goals that you have set in your own
companies. Again part of that the the
quickstick 150 the intelligent conveyor system. So again kind of fits into that
motion perspective and moving product along some of the new key features are LED feedback
higher Precision capabilities. Obviously a lot of tech specs here as well
designed to use existing magnet eraser to take advantage of things when you're
modernizing from from from say from Legacy perspectives and to this space but again new
Technology that allows you to do things either faster or better or more sustainable
and it is available now.
Robot control boy. If you don't hear us talk about robots enough, I'm sure you're not
listening because it really defines a lot of things we've done from
our most recent acquisition of clear path taking advantage of auto motors and so forth,
but when you start looking at how do we manage robot control and from a unified robot
controller second release here? So how do we optimize any robot system
control architecture and enable so that we enable different robot
manufacturers to have a common interface to logic sand, how do we allow any
Engineers say say taking the the brand off the robot sometimes but having a common way
to direct motion and so forth so that the new robots can become smarter and easier to use,
you know, taking advantage of efficiencies empowering workers and achieving that next
level of smart manufacturing through this so we have things like the robotics library that
have move instructions Dynamics and frame management, you know enabling that to
atomscan attached or emulate3d which is a software tool that allows you to do a lot of
work even before this immense dried and and really proactively build a digital twin of
the manufacturing so that you can see where the pain points are or the bottlenecks of
where you're using robots effectively and and fix that and debug it before it even is as
built those are important pieces here.
Again, the powerflex drives which is a key product
of our so when you start looking at the Next Generation the latest generation the 755 tea
and having in a gross integrated motion for that. And again, this is targeted for the
second quarter fiscally of 24. So, you know again streamlining the machine
designed by leveraging, you know, pre-configured commands. So when you talk
about being able to have something that also enables coordinated motion without having to
reinvent the wheel But then providing that diagnostic level so
time-stamped events. So that ability again from the device itself
to send that smart information up and allow your Workforce to take advantage of that, you
know from saying and self aware of the health of that
that piece before it fails is extremely important.
We continue to look at up to the medium voltage drives the 6000 T here. So again
similar timeframe where that's available in the second quarter of fiscal year twenty
four. So again, this is where you take that induction and permanent magnet motors as part
of this offering is when you look at demanding industries from oil and gas through
mining steel that demand the powerflex medium-voltage drives to control those large
industrial Motors and things that typically run 24/7. This is taking advantage of the
tower that totalforce. Force technology, which is an all-purpose non regenerative
portion for fans pumps compressors. So in your application when you have those
things, this is the product that that is very
effective. They're taking advantage of condition condition based monitoring
predictive maintenance data again that information to self diagnose and get
operators involved as needed before it fails.
And then again RFID products that have when you think of RFID, it's something again
being 17 years helped me understand that there's been different layers and roller
coasters in terms of the use of RFID, but the ability from a tagging perspective to
understand what a product is easily,
you know, this expansion of that portfolio introduces long range or longer-range read
and write transceivers to be able to
get information about products as they move through the system.
It's very important. So a lot of new features to build on maybe your current understanding
of RFID. So track and Trace, you know, being able to
look at where things are in its life cycle is very important here
a lot of Industries to take advantage of this and in terms of capability of reading up to
500 tags per second having increased user memory as needed as
extremely important in this space.
Again from a marking system. So when you look at track and Trace, but then moving that on
from a marking system perspective as well. This is a product that when combined with the
right software that being the cleartools software.
It's really an inkjet printer that's optimized for the year 1492 marker
cards your equipment and so forth of taking advantage that creating the right format for
your switch gear for your machines for your terminal blocks Etc. It allows you to print
in the Correct size form size font going really down
to the very small fonts that are needed. So really when you talk about a system
enabling operators in the workforce to know what they're looking at being able to match
up tags to where the location needs to be, you know, obviously empowers Workforce to to
do their job more easily at the end of the day.
We're going to move a little bit here into some of the controllers in our ipc's.
This is a product here. I'm very familiar with in. This is a next line of
compute modules. And this is our embedded Edgecumbe pute module.
This reflects part of our acquisition of awesome to
this is actually an internally built through our awesome acquisition of a computer module
to space. So it does compare against our existing
compute modules in that it is a lower cost
but same More intuitive option in when you talk about compute
modules. It's basically giving you computer
PC capability next to Logix that has its own innate ability
and benefits to from a security perspective of not enabling PCS just on a white box that
have to be on a certain place in your production environment that has to have
firewalls and miles of cabling this collate co-locate specie capability in the
same rack is your Logix controller in this case.
And this first release that is just been available here in the last couple months
is really optimized for our Factory talk Optics
platform. So in specifically within that FactoryTalk
Optics platform. This would be a great option for enabling web client hmis
so with the form factor and capability and price it's optimized to take advantage of
Optics and from an extra small release. It does have
that on board when you buy it an extra small objects runtime.
As well as a runtime pro version of remote access.
So it really is built to handle web-based applications or be that web client from an
HMI perspective. It does have
it doesn't mean that this is replacing our existing compute modules
to take advantage of a lot of different operating systems such as Windows or Linux.
This one explicitly is a Linux yocto
embedded operating system. So we do that in able to make this more intuitive.
So, you know, this has this a more specific. Accuse case but it enables that software that
right software to be optimized next to
logic sand this case. It's built for factorytalk Optics in the future. It's going
to enable more of a Rockwell Marketplace as well. So it's going to have options to match
the right Rockwell software and third-party software
and apps and locate that take advantage of time stamping performance right within the
rack.
This is a product that has been coming for a long time and we're happy to say
that now it actually is a fc available for
customers here and that that changed right in at the beginning of October of this month
when you're listening to this probably month and a half ago.
But really this was built for process users and it really introduced
it reduced introduced one topic but it closed on another important topic to our process
use. The new capability that we've never had before that we now have with flex h a 5,000
Ryo is universal I/O capability with that means is this first release is a universe as
an 8-channel Universal card that each of those channels can be set up to be an input
and output and analog or discrete. So really gives you one option you could lay
out your whole cabinet with this I/O and be able to handle all your analog and discretes
in one form factor, but it really
matches that industry need for having late binding capability or when you land
devices to this and then you want a soft by software dynamically change is that an input
or an output or an analog or discrete if needed
it really offers a lot of capability and really where the value comes in here is it
allows for commissioners of a plant sometimes when you change the I/O
designation and you have to read out relay out the cabinets, that's Lot of work.
It's a lot of going back and redoing things the ability here of late binding and being
able to dynamically change your I/O layout and have I owe that can change its capability
and type based on the need is extremely important.
We now have that the other aspect of this i0 is Fault
tolerance. So this is a believer in a Simplex or duplex. So being able to have
physically redundant IO capability as well, which is demanded by the process environment.
So plays very well here. Dear
love for you that you probably seen this a while. Now, you can take advantage of it and
start putting it in your own facility.
Also again folks to the process user and as we said we don't want to limit
process capabilities to one type of I owe you now have within the compact 5,000. So in
chassis to our compactlogix heart capabilities, so the compact 5,000 isolated
analog heart module is now an inch a see option for compactlogix that allows you to
take advantage of hard both an input and analog input analog output capability for
compact 5000. So that's the high level need hinz. Now we
have heart capability within compact 5000 I/O. So an important add it allows our
process users then that want to standardize on compactlogix or a smaller footprint to
have inch a CIO that can speak heart and hearts important because a lot of that smart
information that comes from say pressure sensors or level sensors are flow sensors and
takes advantage of that hard instruction to put a lot of Health Diagnostics or
multivariable transmitter information that can then be routed to the
operator for Effective business decisions. It comes into
play with what we talked about at the beginning.
And then we continue to look at it a lot of aspects of this system, you know enabling
operators with their HMI environment. So one of the options here is the 6300 on-machine
industrial PC. You can see just by the looks of it at that. It's very hardened for
industrial applications here. This one explicitly has an ip65 Ingress Protection
rating and you talk about the touch capability. So this is a multi-touch pcap
that supports that next Generation gestures, you know, you're used to not just Pushing
things now but you know with your own screens tablets and smartphones where you can
do things like swiping pinching and zooming that is a capability of this PC here as well.
So when you talk about enabling the modern Workforce who
wants to use equipment that is native to my own thinking of how I use my own devices.
This is extremely important and this enables whether or not you call the Millennials of
the Next Generation tab tools that are more intuitive for today's
Workforce.
Again, the the involving of our HMI platform
is very important. So we talked about some of the physical infrastructures but really
that FactoryTalk Optics and kind of our next Generation HMI, that's Cloud collaborative
having the equipment that supports Optics. We talked about the embedded Edge Computers one
for web clients, but then you start looking at the Optics panel standards and Optics
panel compacts that also kind of give you that scalable
range of HMI platforms. Or the need that you have at your facility.
So you see some differences between the standard and compact in terms of size of
availables bezel types. What type of touch types you have. So you do
have single touch resistive and multi-touch
capacitive projected capacitive pending on what your needs are between those two
options. So basically giving you a lot of options and
capability
through a whole portfolio for this exciting HMI platform that has been
a very important add to our portfolio. Of enabling operators to do their best work
going forward and it is available. Now a lot of our Optics panels and a lot of
different versions.
Stainless steel so having options a stainless steel. So still panel user support it so
having that capability in 10 inch and 15-inch screen sizes here,
very important. So, you know, having stainless steel versions of the panel view
plus seven performance in the 5510 and those options so building upon knowledge
getting up to a 69k rating
for certain needs and applications that require that
again everything we talk about here is enabling the right HMI platform to the right
user based on the application and give me Options that you don't have to build a
control room to do at this can be right out
on the facility with ratings for wash down as needed etcetera.
And this one available in the second quarter of calendar year
24 again more PC options based on location. This is an
upgraded 6180 1X hazardous location
PC. So again certain industry applications that require this so
when you start looking at iece x
certified UL class 1 division 2
8 x ratings, you know across the board you start looking at Ingress protections and
having that capability and still allowing things.
Like the multi-touch pcap support from a gesturing standpoint in the
user interface to end point is very important and it does connect in
terms of content delivery programs like our thin manager. So having thin rents in manager
ready bios that allows you to either, you know directly
boot it directly into the thin manager system and deliver end-to-end support that way as in
also important piece of this product that is available
first quarter of fiscal year 24,
This is important. So from a kind of shifting a little bit here from product to
Solutions. And this is based on knowledge based on our personnel and so forth
close to my heart I grew up as into the process business here at Rockwell
even before we had plant PA acts as a moniker, but when you talk about migration
from either Legacy dcss or our own but really rdcs users and I should even say
our process users anymore. It's all users expect to
The turnkey solution in a lot of ways that take you from where you're at today, but to
bring you into today's capability that's not only new products but
new capabilities, but we have to manage that life cycle. We
have to manage that that solution and a lot of times that's TurnKey. Where
a customer you just need to turn it over and say I have an old system that may not be
supported or it's not giving me today's capability and technology and I need
help getting to a more robust more sustainable and more
functioning. System you take advantage of our works are of our
Workforce here and our migration solutions
that have tools and utilities to get you from where you're at to to today's
technology. So it's very comprehensive solution
developed from years of experience by people that have
lived their life, like myself and others in the DCS space.
It's a thorough evaluation. So in anything it starts with an assessment and a plan right
and if you're not creating the right plan and creating the right.
Grayson experience from either a fully rip and replace through a phase migration
perspective. You know, that's an important piece to note. So we have the people and the
processes and the utilities to get there through the DCS Next program.
One of those that you're migrating to from this program could be to our plant PX system.
We hope it is I put my Rockwell hat on. So we're looking forward to to the next release
which is the 5.3 release targeted to between Q2 and Q3 of f y 24.
So it really strengthens the system's purpose-built identity our
strengths of being plant wide in terms of being able to have a system that delivers
both to process and high-speed needs effectively.
But turning the right application. So when people
say I need to buy a DCS, you can buy plant pxr plant PX is our
distribute control system from a Rockwell perspective. So a lot of key features that
continue to build Upon Our solution to the process Industries a lot of ads some
things like some on the analytics sides that we're working on taking advantage of product
like the flex aha 5,000 Ryo for the process industry taking advantage of open
architectures and Native OPC, UA capability. Is again a
networking interface that's needed for a process users.
So we continue to build up taking advantage of product but delivering it as an end-to-end
solution for our users specialist explicitly in the process space,
but I would challenge that we're continuing to evolve our system message across the board
everything that we serve.
And dedicated industry Solutions is also key to what we do, you know,
not only to process users. But sometimes you have to be more explicitly like that. What
are we doing to our life sciences customers? And obviously if you're in if you're at
Boston or you're watching this at home being on the East Coast means we're in front of a
lot of Life Sciences customers. So taking advantage of an industry solution like
pharmasuite, which is the leading mes solution that was designed and is designed
specifically for The life sciences industry is something to take advantage of here.
So again, this talks about not only the right solution but the right expertise to address
your biggest manufacturing execution challenges.
So when you talk about quality compliance, you know deleting human error being able to
drive from Cradle to grave your life sciences application and being able to have
the right dashboards and write operation software to know
and to manage your batches effectively. Oh that's contained in here. So it is
available now take advantage of it as you can.
Finite scheduler again some of our capability here
from a service standpoint taking advantage of product. So really optimizing your plant
production flow to synchronize your dispatching
your material capacity and resource constraints. So again this fits into that
layer from an operations standpoint
of improving what you do if you do a lot of production schedules and being able to more
stabilized that this is where you look to use that
reducing your schedule related down time. So what are these things we talked about of
increasing yield decreasing waste improving your Effectiveness and efficiency this plays
into well and it has a API first stand-alone finite application that integrates with your
existing factorytalk to mes as well, which is important
coming soon some more details to come here.
A big piece we say that, you know, we talked earlier about data and we don't want it to be
a scary term. But when you talk about AI how do we take advantage of AI today in terms of
enabling our own solutions to provide machine learning and take
advantage of everything a I has to play from a from a
response from a prediction from closing that Loop perspective. So are
fed for factorytalk analytics Guardian AI which again will be available
q1 of it by 24 here. You know, it's taking advantage of linking
devices and using them as sensors being able to identical or automatically detect anomaly
anomalies at play being able to analyze at the edge layer. But doing this without
having to have a PhD or a data scientist nearby to do this, you know, you're putting
that AI into the hands of your OT professionals guiding over that with user
configuration and simple workflows to enable this to get up to speed with using analyzer.
Lytx effectively, which has those business outcomes of
minimizing your total cost of ownership. So you don't have to purchase additional
equipment to get those insights
not a lot of overhead, you know, and at the end of the day, you can
reduce downtime in any of these predictive
mentalities that allow you to know things before they break is extremely important in
terms of making your plant more efficient and
24/7 operations that can be empowered.
The mosaics is a another evolving piece that's available
today. And it's again built on putting data to work
and it's really transforming that data using our software as a service industrial
data Hub here. So again key features here are transforming
data and moving that from your device's your in your and your assets
through the operation up to operations into your operation management software Etc.
Anything we do is build I think on a different You too from Rockwell putting the
right context on information from Cradle to grave and just an example of that is a pump
is a pump regardless. So on the operations layer, you know, you see a pump open or
closed but then the hysteresis is still in the context of that pump from a holistic mes
perspective when you're looking at those kind of Dynamics and looking at the age and being
able to not just have a numerical input that doesn't make any sense. It's keeping that
colorsight. Context of a pump the whole way from cradle to grave here. And I think we do
that better than our competition for sure. So this continues to build upon that you
know, you can Source data from any vendor you can have applications from any vendor built
into this and really how do you data which should be
Universal and shared across your platform. How do we make that happen? And we do that
through data mosaics?
Edge manager again when you start talking about Edge and being able to manage your Edge
assets things that maybe have connectivity out to the cloud. How do you manage that
effectively from a security perspective and elsewhere to intelligent and intelligently
manage those devices anywhere from
you know, she talked about enabling remote operation and enabling and managing those
devices from anywhere. This is an important piece here. So being
able to drill down to any device that's connected.
To manage them appropriately visualizing the status of those devices
doing it securely and doing it flexible and intuitively where necessary
deploying schedules that will you know, a lot of features here that are
important that are available now through the edge manager.
Factorytalk energymetrix Iran another platform solution here software that
again. Anybody could agree that how do I be more
energy efficient? How do I not only know more about the energy use it but optimize it where
necessary so being able to see where my sources of energy and where I'm consuming
that being able to provide insights on that information. So that may be knowing what I'm
doing and where my energy usage is at its maximum. Can I do things and make changes
that will read Instead energy usage
being able to create reports and dashboards that show me that information putting that
energy usage in the right context. So I know that hey what am I doing? When my energy
usage is at its maximum, you know any of that information can help
close the loop then on decisions that can be made maybe
starting those High wattage drivers later in the evening
when the cost of energy is less. You know, those are the types of decisions. We want to
empower with tools like this.
Again, our acquisition of fix in a lot of ways from
a maintenance perspective, but also their Asset Risk predict predictor here it's
available now so abilities here just some key features to walk
through here that daily sensor and Status monitoring
spotting failures several days before it happens. So when you talk about getting that
information at a timely basis so you can send out those users may be at a
at a location that's not as easy to get to but you have some days. Get there to make
that change taking advantage of multivariable transmitters and that prediction model
with the specifications in terms of edged Cloud connectivity
using an API or fixed provided cap capability there. You don't need to use the fixed cmms
here to get that capability and it's a really easy setup process. Sometimes this has been
done in as little as two weeks. So an important piece to take advantage of
it is available now.
Microservices support so on a high level optimizing your software investment with
start-up services with Rockwell. So how do we enable you not only for migration standpoint,
but just from conditioning, you know, we don't want to just sell product. We want to
get it up and running and make you effective with it. So, you know having these kind of
services globally and in terms of having knowledge across a lot of industry and
application space so, you know in really getting you from a time to Value
perspective and understanding Only your software but the solutions that we
provide, you know, so we support this through either thing works industrial Internet of
Things solution. It can be built and taking advantage of euphoria or augmented reality
software as well to make this happen. So what are things we do and again that's an
important note to know Rockwell. We've been built on, you know, Allen-Bradley was built
on being a hardware provider, but I think now especially from our
is solution and plantpax that forces us to look at how do we turn key deliver Solutions?
It's not just Hardware, but it's software and its services to get you up and running.
But we know that the lifecycleiq just doesn't end
when we get you up and running. So how do we provide the right repair inventory agreements
that allow you to manage your your life cycle, you know, we don't want this to be a
just a set it forget it mentality. How do you prolong the life and sustainability of your
operations? And we do that in a tiered way. You know, how do we give you the right
service agreement based on what your needs are and be able to build a solution
that at that scales to your need into your budget effectively.
and again, how do we enable your Workforce to use the new technology that maybe you're
migrating to so being able to have training
and do that self-paced do it in an e-learning end or in class based on what works best
so, you know that offering and adding of skills and capability across your board which
in the end of the day two, we would say that Rockwell enables you to cross train your
operators on one system when you think of plant wide automation our
To deliver high speed to analog control
why not just use a Rockwell system without and will train your people to know how to
work the system effectively, right? You don't want to have an environment where
you have to cross train operators on different systems.
We're going to train you how to use our system effectively and you can use that same
system whether or not you're controlling brewing the beer and a temperature and
pressure and flow aspect to bottle izing and carbonizing and palletizing that beer when
you go out and get it ready for sale. So the whole life cycle
of your business we want to own and we're going to get you
there and make sure your Workforce is has the right skills to to maintain the system.
We living environment. Obviously, we're siprom security has to come to play. So when
we do things and you take advantage of information and data flow, you know, you were
opening up Pathways for for hackers and for cyber criminals. So how do we mitigate
that risk? And we do that through a lot of things we do security doesn't have one answer
from Biometrics through whitelisting blacklisting but threat detection Services is
one of those things to how do we mitigate that risk by being able to identify maybe
when the data has been Have snooped on or modified,
you know, how do we take advantage of that know when that happens and protect the rest
of your assets from from from that kind of piece that could come into play. So
we leverage a lot of work a lot of expertise and again,
you know, this isn't a one-size-fits-all and you need to have a recognized knowledgeable
expert as Rockwell Automation is in this space to be able to provide a service in a
solution to make you cyber secure and mitigate that risk.
And again that could involve into just managing the whole infrastructure as well so
itot convergence how you know, that is a can constantly evolving piece. And how do we make
sure those teams work together effectively. So how do we create that infrastructure and
create Services Again part of our life cycle offering
that allows you to have the right management and right know how to manage your existing
infrastructure, you know from Cradle to grave having ability Security
Service management as That management across the life, you know,
we have a lot of tools and capability get you there. But we are we also have the workforce
in the knowledge to be able to support you where you're at as well.
So when through a lot, but what I want you to know is that
everything we do has an aspect to play is to make information
effective to you and allow us to drive home. Not only the
services but getting you there to take advantage of it.
So I hope you enjoy this time. I want to wish you the best in your automation for 2023
whether it's in person with us in Boston or live with us through our on-demand
sessions. Thank you for your time and take care.