Rockwell invests in AI for industrial automation

Rockwell Automation's goals include co-creating to solve customer problems, accelerating innovation, and identifying new emerging technologies that can help its manufacturing customers improve business performance by bridging the gaps between plant-floor and higher-level information systems.

Elik Fooks, senior vice president for corporate development at Rockwell Automation says: "Smart manufacturing requires the use of new and disruptive technologies such as AI to create the future industrial plants and supply networks that are flexible, efficient, responsive, and secure. AI can help manufacturers unlock data, contextualise it, and take action. We continue to create partnerships with leading innovators, such as this one with The Hive, to further advance The Connected Enterprise, our vision for realising unprecedented industrial productivity from the integration of plant and enterprise operations."

T.M. Ravi, managing director and co-founder of The Hive says: "Rockwell Automation's investment in The Hive will provide it with earlier visibility to AI technology from companies fostered by The Hive's technology team. These include AI-powered applications for the cognitive enterprise, edge intelligence, security, and smart machines."

The Hive (www.hivedata.com), based in Palo Alto, California, identifies new AI based opportunities with great growth potential, and based on these opportunities co-creates, funds, and launches start-ups with substantial operational and technology support.