Hosted by Rockwell Automation, this week-long event is expected to attract a broad cross-section of attendees representing plant-floor, engineering and IT functionsMILWAUKEE, April 30, 2007 - In response to growing interest in the benefits of plant-wide integration across a range of manufacturing se
One of the hot technologies in manufacturing is manufacturing execution systems, and one of the hot questions is how you measure value for the investment in MES. Manufacturing Summit panelists David Frede of GE Fanuc, Michael Gay of Rockwell Automation and Bob Ziegenfuse of Advanced Automation Assoc
Remember when the factory floor and enterprise IT were two separate, unconnected worlds? Unfortunately, integrating these two disparate departments still remains a challenge for much of manufacturing, according to Cisco Systems and Rockwell Automation. Their advice: Think of integrating them as a wa
Sometimes it seems to me that we haven't progressed all that far from Polynesian tribes. We respect experience and wisdom up to a point, but if one of us gets too old to hunt, fish or fight, we cast them out. Or make them Chief.At the recent ARC Forum in Boston, chiefs gathered and passed the talkin
Kevin Roach, VP of software, Rockwell Automation, is on something of a roll. "It's been a great year for growth and market share," he enthuses. "We've continued to deliver double-digit growth in a market that's growing a lot more slowly than that."Expressed as simply as po
Integration is the big story in the realm of plant-floor systems. Thanks to advances such as standards-based programming interfaces, SOA-based middleware platforms, and portal technology, plant-floor automation vendors are making it much easier for users to deploy broad-based solutions that p
Orlando, FL-"We're going to delay rollout to ensure quality." In a world primed on instant everything, it wasn't surprising that some customers groaned a bit after Kevin Roach, vice president Rockwell Software, said that Rockwell Automation's next Coordinated Product Release (CPR 9), expec
Oak Brook, IL-Automation system integrators name their corporate affiliations when applying for listings in the Control Engineering Automation Integrator Guide. The top three corporate vendor affiliations by integrators in the 2007 guide are Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation) at 34%, Wonderware (In
MILWAUKEE, July 13, 2007 - Shaw Industries, a global full-service residential and commercial flooring company, has implemented a production control and information system using the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture that allows better access to information on the plant floor and alleviates
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