Rockwell Automation and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Simplify Industrial Transformation
October 06 2020 - 7:01AM
Business Wire
Partnership aims to empower manufacturers with
agility, intelligence, and scale to deliver digital transformation
initiatives—from the cloud to the edge
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) and Microsoft Corp.
(NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a five-year partnership expansion to
develop integrated, market-ready solutions that help industrial
customers improve digital agility through cloud technology. By
combining each company’s expertise in the industrial and IT
markets, respectively, teams can work together more seamlessly,
enabling industrial organizations to save on infrastructure costs,
speed time-to-value, and increase productivity.
Microsoft and Rockwell are working to deliver innovative
edge-to-cloud-based solutions that connect information between
development, operations and maintenance teams through a singular,
trusted data environment. This will allow development teams to
digitally prototype, configure and collaborate without investing in
costly physical equipment. This unified information environment
also enables IT and OT teams to not only securely access and share
data models across the organization, but with their ecosystem of
partners as well.
“Today, one thing we know for sure is that no business is 100%
resilient. Those fortified with digital capabilities and assets are
more resilient than others, and the cloud is how they will thrive,”
said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of worldwide
commercial business, Microsoft. “We are pleased to deepen our
already strong, decade-long relationship with Rockwell Automation
to help businesses simplify industrial transformation, accelerate
business outcomes and innovate with agility.”
To date, the companies have co-developed over 20 use cases
across Food & Beverage, Household and Personal Care and Life
Sciences industries. The solutions developed from this partnership
will augment and enhance our current offerings.
“This partnership provides Rockwell Automation and Microsoft
customers with a holistic, simple solution for IIoT development and
operations and removes data silos that hinder industrial digital
transformation initiatives,” said Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of
Rockwell Automation. “By eliminating a core barrier to automation
initiatives, industrial organizations establish a digital thread
connecting the entire enterprise, which in turn accelerates
innovation, maximizes productivity and optimizes operations.”
“Our team has seen the preview release of this new solution and
we are excited about collaboration between our strategic partners,
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft,” said Tristan Hunter, GM
Automation & Operational Technology at Fonterra Co-operative
Group Limited, New Zealand’s largest company and responsible for
30% of the world’s dairy exports. “Moving data from our on-premise
assets securely with context and providing new workflows for us to
analyze and drive better outcomes is important to maintaining
Fonterra’s high standards across our many plants globally.”
Organizations can access Rockwell Automation solutions now via
the Microsoft Azure Marketplace with more solutions currently in
development. The next phase of co-innovation solutions will be
available to joint customers of Rockwell Automation and Microsoft
customers in Q1 2021 at Automation Fair At Home.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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 23,000 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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