Posted to News on 18th Jun 2020, 10:18
Rockwell Automation announces Factory Insights as a Service
PTC and Rockwell Automation have announced Factory Insights as a Service, a turnkey cloud service that enables manufacturers to achieve impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives. The new offering, unveiled during PTC's Global Partner Summit event at the recent LiveWorx 2020 digital transformation event, "Marks a significant advancement to the collaboration among Rockwell Automation, Microsoft, and PTC" says Rockwell.
Factory Insights as a Service, powered by technology from PTC, Rockwell Automation and Microsoft, is delivered in the cloud in a turnkey fashion and supports the industry's most common high-value digital transformation use cases including real-time production performance monitoring, asset monitoring and utilisation, connected work cells and digital and augmented work instructions. The new service includes many of the key product components of PTC and Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, including PTC's ThingWorx, Kepware, and Vuforia products, optimised for OT data coming from Rockwell Automation's best-in-class automation and information offerings. It leverages Microsoft's cloud, industrial IoT and Edge services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge, enabling manufacturers to rapidly connect individual sites and to implement projects across their enterprise network. This enables users to save time and money by reducing the complexity that they typically undertake as part of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) implementation and greater digital transformation effort. Factory Insights as a Service is claimed to be a perfect on-ramp for manufacturers interested in improving their operations by providing valuable intelligence and insights on operational performance, asset utilisation, and workforce efficiency.
Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC says: "Factory Insights as a Service offers our industrial customers a leaner, accelerated approach to digital transformation. The offering reduces reliance on IT and operational technology (OT) resources, and, most importantly, takes a value-first approach that allows manufacturers to focus on initiatives that create business impact at scal". In today's digital-first environment, manufacturers require solutions that solve complex infrastructure issues, data accessibility challenges, and reduced resources. With Factory Insights as a Service, says Rockwell and PTC, manufacturers can achieve a 90 per cent reduction in development time and cost and as much as 90 per cent faster time-to-value for the most critical high-value use cases underpinning industrial digital transformation. Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation says: "Simplifying and accelerating digital transformation initiatives for our clients is a fundamental driver for our alliances with PTC and Microsoft. Factory Insights as a Service builds on the breakthrough capabilities of FactoryTalk InnovationSuite powered by PTC, to quickly operationalise some of the most critical use cases improving production, asset, and workforce efficiency, while future-proofing our customers' digital transformation roadmap".
Follow the link for more information about Factory Insights as a Service, and visit www.rockwellautomation.co.uk for further company information.
