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Welcome to the ROKStudios. Here, we share insights and expertise from Rockwell Automation, our customers, and our partners, providing the information you need to unify your people, processes, and technology, and accelerate your digital transformation initiatives.

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Optimize Production

More efficient production can only come from better visibility into every facet of your operation. Here, you can see how smart manufacturing can help your business become more efficient, more resilient, and more productive.

Optimize Production

More efficient production can only come from better visibility into every facet of your operation.

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More efficient production can only come from better visibility into every facet of your operation.

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Thinking Bigger When It Comes to Solving Small Challenges

Thinking Bigger When It Comes to Solving Small Challenges

ControlSoft founders Dermot Carragher and Peter McGinnity discuss the importance of simplicity and uniformity in driving business growth. They explore how outdated systems can hinder progress and share how transitioning to unified solutions, like Plex MES, not only streamlines processes but also future-proofs operations – as demonstrated by their customer Warmflow.

How Digital Solutions are Transforming the Tire Industry

How Digital Solutions are Transforming the Tire Industry

From sustainability and efficiency to compliance, there are a variety of challenges the tire industry is currently facing. However, according to Diego Dantas, IT Application Manager at Prometeon Tyre Group, in this ROKStudios interview, transformation starts with digital solutions.

How AMR Technology Can Improve Productivity in the Industrial Space

How AMR Technology Can Improve Productivity in the Industrial Space

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are set to define the future of manufacturing by driving greater efficiency and value for companies everywhere. What can they do for you? Greg Gernert, Vice President and General Manager, Motion, Rockwell Automation, explains everything in this ROKStudios session.

Full digitalization to totally transform Madrid’s freshwater infrastructure

Full digitalization to totally transform Madrid’s freshwater infrastructure

In this ROKStudios session Javier García del Río, Head of Automation at Canal de Isabel II, speaks to Stan Miller and discusses how digital transformation sits at the heart of the company's Smart Plant initiative. He explains how digital tools save operational costs, increase productivity and streamline processes thanks to access to real-time operational data.

Intelligent Action: How to Support Macro and Micro Efficiency Gains in Manufacturing

Intelligent Action: How to Support Macro and Micro Efficiency Gains in Manufacturing

Sensia CTO Andrew Weatherhead discussed the importance of Intelligent Action in his ROKStudios session, and explained how it allows companies to respond to real-time process conditions, rather than clinging to age-old design criteria.

How Automation Helps You Save Energy Across Your Entire Supply Chain

How Automation Helps You Save Energy Across Your Entire Supply Chain

Everybody wants to save energy when it comes to their manufacturing operations. But according to Michael Sweet, Director of New Energy at Rockwell Automation, you can think much bigger. In his ROKStudios session, he explains how you can achieve this for your whole supply chain.

Comau and Rockwell together for a Unified Robot Control

Comau and Rockwell together for a Unified Robot Control

This ROKStudios session focuses on the collaboration between Rockwell Automation and Comau, and how their solutions around Unified Robot Control create simplified, more accessible production environments and greater scalability, enabling the producer to integrate and innovate with robotics.

The benefits of integrated robotics

The benefits of integrated robotics

Roberta Tanzariello, platform lead for robotics and digital tools at Rockwell Automation, joins Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to discuss how integrated robotics provides a complete workflow solution for customers. Together, they discuss how robotics is evolving to enable flexible application design and scalable applications, to improve the lifecycle of the machine, increase asset utilization and decrease the footprint.

A Faster Time to Market with the Modular Approach from CUBIC

A Faster Time to Market with the Modular Approach from CUBIC

Rockwell Automation recently acquired CUBIC, a Danish company that specializes in modular systems for the construction of electrical panels. But what is CUBIC, and what does it bring to the Rockwell offering that could benefit your business? Jesper Fristrup, Director of CUBIC, joined Rockwell Automation’s Victoria Alia and Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to explain the benefits of this new opportunity.

Operational Processes: Precision in the Age of Industry 4.0

Operational Processes: Precision in the Age of Industry 4.0

Alongside Stan Miller in the ROKStudios is Jeff Holcomb, global market manager automation - Industrial Division at Mettler Toledo, who discusses the importance that specificity and precision play for smart manufacturing enterprises in the Industry 4.0 era.

Why going paperless improves your quality control

Why going paperless improves your quality control

In the ROKStudios, Oscar Cortada, business development manager at Adasoft, talks about the importance of digitalization and going paperless, especially as a way to improve quality control in sectors such as pharmaceutical, life sciences and food & beverage.

How Operational Flexibility Helps Companies Improve Their Return on Investment and Reduce Lead Times

How Operational Flexibility Helps Companies Improve Their Return on Investment and Reduce Lead Times

Being more flexible isn’t just about reducing your lead times and adapting in real time – it can also help generate significant ROI improvements, as RadPak’s director of export, Lukasz Ziolkowski, discussed when he joined us in the ROKStudios.

Flexible Packaging Needs Flexible Processes

Flexible Packaging Needs Flexible Processes

When he joined the ROKStudios, Olaf Clemens, SN Maschinenbau’s CEO, spoke about the importance of flexibility when it comes to manufacturing operations, and the wide-reaching benefits it has to offer.

Why Scalability is Now Integral for Bolstering Efficiency in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Why Scalability is Now Integral for Bolstering Efficiency in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Over the past few years, there has been an industry shift from mass batch production towards processing efficiency and scalability. In his ROKStudios session, Dirk Schuster, vice president for sales machinery at Groninger, explains why this has happened, and the benefits it brings with it.

Designing a More Integrated Future for Packaging Machinery

Designing a More Integrated Future for Packaging Machinery

Paolo Soliani, export area manager at Clevertech, joined the ROKStudios to talk about how, by connecting processes and standardizing approaches, companies can design a more integrated operating future.

BIC's Deployment of the Plex MES Solution

BIC's Deployment of the Plex MES Solution

Rogelio Demay, Senior Manager EMEA IT Manufacturing at BIC, joined Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to discuss the implementation of the Plex MES solution at BIC, and explain how it has benefited the company and laid the groundwork for the future.

Use cases of Plex in the manufacturing industry

Use cases of Plex in the manufacturing industry

In this ROKStudios session, Richard Holmes, information software sales executive at Rockwell Automation, discusses the role cloud-based MES can play in overcoming major operational challenges.

Remove the Hidden Costs with a Native Cloud Solution

Remove the Hidden Costs with a Native Cloud Solution

In this ROKStudios session, Curtis Reilly, technical consultant manager at Rockwell Automation, presents his arguments for why native cloud solutions are the way to go for manufacturers.

Busting the Myths and Misconceptions of MES

Busting the Myths and Misconceptions of MES

With so many misconceptions surrounding the role of Manufacturing Execution Systems, it’s time for a bit of myth busting. Join Sarah Dana, head of information solutions for North Europe, Middle East and Africa at Rockwell Automation, for a refresher on the role of MES.

Business benefits and outcomes with MES implementation

Business benefits and outcomes with MES implementation

Manufacturing Execution Systems have a lot of benefits, but they offer different outcomes, depending on the unique challenges of each business. In the ROKStudios, Malte Dieckelmann, regional vice president of software sales, explains the most effective ways to implement MES.

The Connected Enterprise Production System: Investment in Technology

The Connected Enterprise Production System: Investment in Technology

Join Åsa Arvidsson, Regional Vice President of Sales for Rockwell Automation's EMEA North Region, as she discusses some of the key considerations for decision makers involved in technology investment decisions – beginning by offering insights into how manufacturing leaders are looking at the future of their business.

How to Build a Smarter, More Efficient, More Responsive and Sustainable Future for Manufacturing

How to Build a Smarter, More Efficient, More Responsive and Sustainable Future for Manufacturing

Andrea Ruotolo, Global Head of Customer Sustainability at Rockwell Automation, talks about the change in how companies are approaching the matter of sustainability in manufacturing. Where previously ESG goals may have simply been about ticking a box, now companies are under greater scrutiny to show the tangible impacts of their sustainability strategies.

Integrating End-to-End Solutions for Agility and Sustainability in Packaging

Integrating End-to-End Solutions for Agility and Sustainability in Packaging

When he joined us in the ROKStudios, CT Pack sales director, Alberto Bonazza, spoke about how – by integrating end-to-end solutions into operations – manufacturers aren’t just making agility gains, but sustainability gains as well.

How collaboration enables both growth and flexibility

How collaboration enables both growth and flexibility

In this ROKStudios session, Dermot Carragher, director at ControlSoft Automation Systems Limited, joins Stan Miller to talk about the many benefits that automation offers, as well as the important role collaboration plays in growth.

Collaboration as a tool for future-proofing businesses

Collaboration as a tool for future-proofing businesses

Prabhu Badrinathen, CEO, Falcon Group, and Srikrishna Ganesan, CEO, Al Ghandi Electrical & Automation, join the ROKStudios to talk about how their collaborative approach and mentality has generated significant benefits while future-proofing their respective businesses in the Middle East.

Imagine what’s possible when everyone is given the tools to succeed, and partnerships that complement one another perfectly. Here, you can learn how collaboration can support your business, how to tackle the skills shortage, and how to get the best from your workforce.

Empower People

Imagine what’s possible when everyone is given the tools to succeed, and partnerships that complement one another perfectly.

Empower People

Imagine what’s possible when everyone is given the tools to succeed, and partnerships that complement one another perfectly.

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Workforce Challenges for Industrial Companies and the Need to Upskill Employees

Workforce Challenges for Industrial Companies and the Need to Upskill Employees

David Herranz, Head of Manpower Europe, ManpowerGroup, and Susana Gonzalez, EMEA President at Rockwell Automation, took the opportunity in the ROKStudios to outline the workforce challenges faced by industrial companies and the need to upskill employees.

The Importance of Visualization: Now and Into the Future

The Importance of Visualization: Now and Into the Future

Visualization is the future of manufacturing. This is the central message from Mauro Galano, visualization product manager, EMEA, at Rockwell Automation, when he sat down to talk to us in the ROKStudios.

Empowering the Next-Generation Workforce Through Augmented Reality

Empowering the Next-Generation Workforce Through Augmented Reality

Michele De Stasio, Commercial Director for Tekna Automazione e Controllo, explains how contemporary digital solutions are revolutionizing machine control and production processes across a diverse range of industries, including automotive, cranes and ports, glass, food & beverage, warehousing, and tires.

Building Your Digital Transformation Starts on the Plant Floor

Building Your Digital Transformation Starts on the Plant Floor

Erada Group's Fadi Mina joined the ROKStudios to discuss the best place manufacturers can start their digital transformation and why they should never overlook the importance of the plant floor.

Advanced Simulation Technology: How process simulation supports operator training and control/safety system logic testing

Advanced Simulation Technology: How process simulation supports operator training and control/safety system logic testing

Winston Jenks, technical director at Cape Software, enters the ROKStudios to share his expert insights into simulation technology, and how it better prepares operators to handle real world situations.

The Benefits of the Eplan Platform and its Partnership with Rockwell Automation

The Benefits of the Eplan Platform and its Partnership with Rockwell Automation

Sean Mulherrin and Tim McCain present the features and benefits that Eplan can offer, especially when paired with Rockwell Automation’s capabilities, to accelerate the customer’s digital journey, streamline engineering processes and ensure data consistency throughout the entire value chain.

Using pre-programmed applications to combat the skills shortage

Using pre-programmed applications to combat the skills shortage

Manuel Pfund, global key account manager at NTI AG / LinMot, joins the ROKStudios to discuss the problems the ongoing skills shortage is creating and how pre-programmed applications can help manufacturers to overcome them.

Insights from the C-Suite in Global Manufacturing

Insights from the C-Suite in Global Manufacturing

Want to know what’s being discussed in the C-Suite among global manufacturers? Scott Genereux, Rockwell Automation’s chief revenue officer, spends time with customers regularly, discussing their business objectives and their most pressing needs. In this short video, Scott shares the key themes he keeps hearing in his conversations with manufacturing leaders around the world.

Why standardization means a safer, more productive working environment

Why standardization means a safer, more productive working environment

Chris Schneck, EMEA sales manager & business development manager at Grace Technologies, joins the ROKStudios to explain why embracing standardization across your enterprise doesn’t just mean a safer working environment, but a more productive one as well.

Put the right data in front of the right people

Put the right data in front of the right people

Rob MacKenzie, corporate director sales excellence at Endress+Hauser Group, comes to the ROKStudios to outline the importance that putting the right data in front of the right people has when it comes to productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.

Navigating Operational and Workforce Challenges in Digital Transformation

Navigating Operational and Workforce Challenges in Digital Transformation

In the ROKStudios, Nina Tebbe and Mohammed Elnakib, from Rockwell Automation, discuss the results of the 8th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report, what recruitment challenges mean for manufacturing, and how cybersecurity awareness is more important than ever.

How Automation Frees Up Workers for Higher Value Roles

How Automation Frees Up Workers for Higher Value Roles

Frederick Hehl, vice president of enterprise software sales, joins ROKStudios to discuss the increasingly critical role of automation within manufacturing, and how it is addressing recruitment challenges in unexpected ways.

How Digitalization Helps Human and Machine Work Effectively Together

How Digitalization Helps Human and Machine Work Effectively Together

From knowledge sharing to improved training, from efficiency gains to better quality control, allowing your machines and your workforce to work better together is one of the key benefits that digitalization has to offer. Find out how you can create this synergy from our ROKStudios session with Riccardo Cavanna, chairman of Cavanna Packaging Group.

The Importance of Making Your Interfaces Easy to Understand for Your Workers

The Importance of Making Your Interfaces Easy to Understand for Your Workers

LiveTech’s export manager, Federico Scornaienchi, joined us in the ROKStudios to talk about how – no matter how advanced your technology is – your interfaces need to be simple to understand.

How Modularity Helped CAMA and Hawaiian Host Optimize Their Workforce

How Modularity Helped CAMA and Hawaiian Host Optimize Their Workforce

In this ROKStudios session, Billy Goodman, managing director at CAMA North America, and Chris Rabago, director of manufacturing at Hawaiian Host, explain how modularity helped them optimize their workforce despite particular challenges around labor shortages.

A Day in the Life of a Digital Worker

A Day in the Life of a Digital Worker

Olena Parfonova speaks to Stan Miller to provide insights into how advances in data, devices and applications are changing the way digital workers operate for the better. She outlines how, while what constitutes a digital worker may differ depending on context, having accessible data and tools that enable smart decision-making will always remain a constant.

The Importance of Training and Learning+

The Importance of Training and Learning+

Marcin Szyling provides an overview of how industrial companies are changing their approaches towards training and upskilling employees, using a hybrid mix of virtual and in-person models. The priority should be to set a training path for each employee that blends virtual and in-person learning where and when they need it most.

Build Resilience

The safety and productivity of people, machines, and processes is a key element of any sustainable business. Here, you’ll find insights into the cybersecurity that protects your IT and your OT, as well as ways to ensure safer operations, and to mitigate supply chain risks.

Build Resilience

The safety and productivity of people, machines, and processes is a key element of any sustainable business.

Build Resilience

The safety and productivity of people, machines, and processes is a key element of any sustainable business.

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How to Get Board-Level Buy-In for OT Cybersecurity

How to Get Board-Level Buy-In for OT Cybersecurity

Marcin Szczepanik, CISO at EET Fuels, and Dave White, OT Security Lead at EET Fuels, discuss effective methods for engaging board-level executives on the critical importance of cybersecurity within operational technology.

Combating the Constant Threat of OT Cybersecurity Attacks

Combating the Constant Threat of OT Cybersecurity Attacks

Ben Miller, CISO at Dragos, addresses the ongoing and evolving threats in OT cybersecurity. He highlights the significant findings from the annual Dragos report, including the increasing number of threat groups and the prevalent use of ransomware exploiting vulnerabilities in OT systems.

Securing Industrial Operations: Navigating the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape in Industrial Sectors

Securing Industrial Operations: Navigating the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape in Industrial Sectors

Phil Tonkin, Field Chief Technology Officer at Dragos, and John Speakman, Cybersecurity Services Team Lead EMEA North at Rockwell Automation, discuss the evolving cyber threat landscape in industrial sectors. They cover the significant trends identified in the Dragos 2023 Year in Review, including a drastic increase in ransomware attacks and more sophisticated attack methodologies.

Cybersecurity Trends: A View From a CISO

Cybersecurity Trends: A View From a CISO

Cybersecurity is essential for any business, but with the convergence of OT and IT, it’s never been more important for industrial companies. Javier Garcia Quintela, CISO, Repsol, joined us in the ROKStudios to share his views on how companies should tackle this increasingly important subject.

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be Seen as a Cultural Pillar

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be Seen as a Cultural Pillar

Ana García Arias, BISO of Iberdrola, took the opportunity of her time in the ROKStudios to tell us how cybersecurity needs to be seen as a cultural pillar within your business - with your workforce providing an effective line of defense alongside the tech.

The Benefits a Security Operations Center Offers Manufacturers

The Benefits a Security Operations Center Offers Manufacturers

Helena Taribó Gómez, global SOC manager, Rockwell Automation, and Sergio Sánchez Palma, cybersecurity team lead, Rockwell Automation, join the ROKStudios to explain how a Security Operations Center (SOC) can have many benefits for manufacturers - some of which stretch well beyond cybersecurity.

How to Secure Your OT Network From the Inside Out

How to Secure Your OT Network From the Inside Out

Knowing how to secure your OT network from the inside out is a vital part of cybersecurity according to César Delgado Villalba, Cybersecurity Services Sales Executive, Rockwell Automation, in his ROKStudios session.

Safety and Security: Two Sides of the Coin

Safety and Security: Two Sides of the Coin

00:00 06:30 Can you have security without safety? Here, Meghna Subramani, EMEA commercial product manager, Rockwell Automation, and Ian Murgatroyd, EMEA product manager, Rockwell Automation, explore this question and the many implications in their ROKStudios session.

Navigating EU Cybersecurity Regulations

Navigating EU Cybersecurity Regulations

David Main-Reade, EU regulatory affairs, and Manju Venugopal, engineering manager for product security at Rockwell Automation, combine their expertise to help you understand and navigate all the latest EU cybersecurity regulations.

Everything You Need to Know About the NIS2 Directive

Everything You Need to Know About the NIS2 Directive

Learn how to navigate the latest cybersecurity legislation. Andreu Cuartiella, lifecycle services commercial manager, EMEA, at Rockwell Automation, and Maria Else, senior global product manager at Rockwell Automation, joined the ROKStudios to discuss the key elements of the new NIS2 directive.

Effective Cybersecurity and NIS2 Compliance First Requires Organizational Trust

Effective Cybersecurity and NIS2 Compliance First Requires Organizational Trust

Join Dave White, from EET Fuels, and Rockwell Automation’s own John Speakman, as they enter the ROKStudios to discuss the importance of effective cybersecurity and NIS2 compliance, and how success all comes down to one key element: trust.

Modern digitized maintenance: A platform for success at Barrett Steel

Modern digitized maintenance: A platform for success at Barrett Steel

This ROKStudios session focusses on the myriad benefits that can be realized from the deployment of modern digitalized maintenance solutions. Paul Burke, Operations Director at Barrett Steel and Peter Clarke, CEO of CHG Electrical explain how actionable real-time data equates to higher uptime, more efficient machine utilization, and improved profitability.

Supply Chain Visibility and End-to-End Traceability with Kezzler

Supply Chain Visibility and End-to-End Traceability with Kezzler

Piet de Vriendt of Kezzler discusses the current state of manufacturing supply chains, explaining how improved visibility can more accurately calibrate supply and demand, and how serialization can help tackle counterfeit products, provide assurance of provenance, and provide information on the company’s carbon footprint.

How going wireless contributes to safer operations

How going wireless contributes to safer operations

To discuss the important role that wireless communications can play in the modern manufacturing environment, Raffaela Wulff, channel partner manager at R3 Solutions, joins the ROKStudios to outline the key benefits this approach can offer.

Why security needs to be seamless

Why security needs to be seamless

Ian Bayly, EMEA director of sales at RF Ideas, sits down with Stan Miller to talk all things security and authentication in this ROKStudios session. In particular, why making things seamless is just as important as making them secure.

Cisco and Rockwell Automation: Network Infrastructure and Security Solution

Cisco and Rockwell Automation: Network Infrastructure and Security Solution

Thierry Rouquet of Cisco and Mads Laier of Rockwell Automation discuss how, by converging the worlds of IT and OT, the partnership of these two companies supports the Connected Enterprise through a common platform and secure network infrastructure.

Best Practices for OT Cybersecurity

Best Practices for OT Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is well understood in the IT space, but what about protecting OT infrastructure? John Speakman talks with Stan Miller, explaining the best practices for OT cybersecurity in the manufacturing industry.

Are You Cybersecure? Learn about Secure Remote Access and Active Threat Detection with Claroty

Are You Cybersecure? Learn about Secure Remote Access and Active Threat Detection with Claroty

Erwin Schürmann and John Speakman highlight the role of cybersecurity in a modern smart manufacturing environment, and the value that secure remote access and active threat detection solutions offer. There is no silver bullet, but having greater visibility and understanding of your network is a first key step.

Preventing Supply Chain Shortages with Predictive Maintenance

Preventing Supply Chain Shortages with Predictive Maintenance

Over recent years, few issues have had a greater impact on the manufacturing industry than supply chain issues. However, according to Franceso Marchioni, CEO of MACS, these problems and shortages can be alleviated through predictive maintenance – as he explained during his time in the ROKStudios.

Drive Sustainability

Whether you’re looking for ways to incorporate sustainable materials or a circular economy into your operations, or tackling scope 1, 2 or 3 emissions, you’ll find something to help you here. Beyond that, you can find information on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG).

Drive Sustainability

Whether you’re looking for ways to incorporate sustainable materials or a circular economy into your operations, or tackling scope 1, 2 or 3 emissions, you’ll find something to help you here.

Drive Sustainability

Whether you’re looking for ways to incorporate sustainable materials or a circular economy into your operations, or tackling scope 1, 2 or 3 emissions, you’ll find something to help you here.

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Advanced Battery Technology at the Heart of Global Net-Zero Programs

Advanced Battery Technology at the Heart of Global Net-Zero Programs

Enerpoly is dedicated to making a positive, enduring change in global energy access and decarbonization through its creation of advanced energy-storage solutions. Co-founders, Eloisa de Castro and Dr Samer Nameer, explain how the company is embracing digital automation solutions in creating a “mega factory” of the future, providing the battery technology that underpins net-zero programs worldwide.

Achieving Renewable Energy Goals through Scalable Technology

Achieving Renewable Energy Goals through Scalable Technology

Nicolas Heuze, CEO of Sweetch Energy, explores how scalable technology is the key to achieving renewable energy goals. Nicolas dives into how innovative solutions can address the increasing demand for clean energy while maintaining efficiency and adaptability.

How Sustainability is Not Just Better for the Planet; It’s Better for Your People and Profits

How Sustainability is Not Just Better for the Planet; It’s Better for Your People and Profits

How can sustainability be better for planet, people and profits? Frederic Chaffraix, Manufacturing Engineering Performance Director, Michelin, and Jean Damay, Methods Engineer, Michelin, explain all in this ROKStudios interview.

Circular Economy, Waste Valorization and Future Trends in Sustainability

Circular Economy, Waste Valorization and Future Trends in Sustainability

Vicente Centelles Forner, manager at Greene Enterprise, joined the ROKStudios to talk about an often overlooked aspect of sustainability: waste valorization.

The Vital Role of Precision and Control in Innovative Waste-Recovery Solutions

The Vital Role of Precision and Control in Innovative Waste-Recovery Solutions

Steve Peleman, CEO of Triple Helix, joins Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to explain the challenges facing waste recovery and end-of-life recycling. These technical and commercial challenges can be greatly offset with the right choice of technology platform.

Reducing Your Scope One, Two and Three Emissions with Digitalization

Reducing Your Scope One, Two and Three Emissions with Digitalization

Digitalization will help manufacturers reduce Scope One, Two and Three emissions. This is the clear message from Kalypso’s Rodrigo Alves and Knowledge Lens’ Ganesh Iyer in their ROKStudios session. Find out why here.

Ensuring efficiency and sustainability in critical industries

Ensuring efficiency and sustainability in critical industries

Huseyn Tarek, regional president at Intech Automation and Intelligence, discusses how automation can help promote improved energy efficiencies moving forward; something incredibly important for critical industries, in particular.

How Innovative Technologies Drive Sustainable and Efficient Packaging Solutions

How Innovative Technologies Drive Sustainable and Efficient Packaging Solutions

With customers increasingly prioritizing speed, efficiency, and sustainability, companies need to be agile and adopt advanced technologies to stay competitive in the market. Lukas Masek, vice president of Viking Masek, explained how you can stay competitive in a crowded industry when he joined the ROKStudios.

Embracing Innovation, Flexibility and Sustainability to Shape the Future of Packaging

Embracing Innovation, Flexibility and Sustainability to Shape the Future of Packaging

Flexibility and sustainability are big topics in the packaging industry right now. So, when Matteo Pattuelli, general manager at Senzani Brevetti, joined us in the ROKStudios, he was keen to highlight the importance of embracing cutting-edge technology to address these challenges through improved machine design and high processing speeds.

Sustainability as a service: a new model for positive change in industry

Sustainability as a service: a new model for positive change in industry

James Hynd, CEO of Energy Drive speaks to Stan Miller in this ROKStudios session and uncovers the huge potential of Sustainability as a Service (SaaS). He explains how it is creating a new, more financially palatable business model that can help companies address the toughest sustainability targets.

Balancing Sustainability and Efficiency in Packaging Processes

Balancing Sustainability and Efficiency in Packaging Processes

In this ROKStudios session, Dr Stefan König, managing director of Optima Packaging Group, discusses the growing emphasis on sustainability and its impact on packaging processes, product development, and customer demand.

Integrating Smart Technologies for Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability

Integrating Smart Technologies for Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability

Innovation is what keeps companies at the forefront of their industry. SPS Italiana Pack Systems' senior automation engineer, Giorgio Aymar, explained how to ensure your solutions continue to offer value, when he sat down in the ROKStudios.

Unleashing the Power of Collaboration for Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Unleashing the Power of Collaboration for Sustainable Packaging Solutions

When it comes to developing more sustainable solutions, collaboration is the key first step. Hans-Peter Mertens, CEO of The Packaging Group, and Tom O'Reilly, vice president of sustainability at Rockwell Automation, illustrate how this approach helped their companies and their customers to be more sustainable, here in the ROKStudios.

How controlling critical processes generates sustainability gains

How controlling critical processes generates sustainability gains

In this ROKStudios session, Vicente Centelles Forner, of Greene Enterprises, talks about how their use of the PlantPAx® distributed control system (DCS) has helped to develop an innovative and highly effective waste-recovery technology solution that supports sustainability goals.

Helping Create a Circular Packaging Economy

Helping Create a Circular Packaging Economy

All industries – but especially the packaging industry – need to embrace the circular economy. From raw materials to final disposal, every part of the circle matters. In this ROKStudios session, UCIMA’s chairman of the board, Riccardo Cavanna, explains why utilizing this approach has benefits that extend beyond just the sustainable.

How Energy Monitoring Helps Manufacturers Impact Specific Sustainability Gains

How Energy Monitoring Helps Manufacturers Impact Specific Sustainability Gains

Hitting sustainable targets means working towards specific goals. And this can only come when energy monitoring is providing accurate data. Uncover the benefits this approach can have for your organization in this ROKStudios session with Marcus Behrens, CSO at The Packaging Group.

Overcoming the Challenges of Working with More Sustainable Materials

Overcoming the Challenges of Working with More Sustainable Materials

Embracing more sustainable materials, such as paper-based packaging or biodegradable solutions, is the future of the industry. However, Universal Pack’s pharma division sales manager, Simone Marzi, explains that companies need to focus their efforts when working with these materials. This ROKStudios session outlines everything from the challenges to the solutions.

Revolutionizing Packaging Sustainability Through Innovation

Revolutionizing Packaging Sustainability Through Innovation

With increasing demand for alternative, more environmentally friendly packaging, Pagès Group has risen to the challenge with developments such as 100% recyclable Molded Fiber Labeling™ (MFL). Romain Hervé, director of business development, joined us in the ROKStudios to explain how brands can leverage the latest techniques to apply the same advantages to fiber-based packaging as to conventional plastic packaging, while overcoming technical challenges.

Closing the Data Loop for More Sustainable Processes

Closing the Data Loop for More Sustainable Processes

During his time in the ROKStudios, Guillem Clofent, managing director at Mespack, discussed the necessity of robust data collection and analysis for manufacturers, and the ways this supports key sustainability goals.

Accelerate Digital Transformation

Digitalization, adaptability, and the evolution of the Connected Enterprise – here, you can find discussions on data, flexibility, and every aspect of Industry 4.0. You can also learn about the hardware and software that support it.

Accelerate Growth through Digital Transformation

Digitalization, adaptability, and the evolution of the Connected Enterprise.

Accelerate Growth through Digital Transformation

Digitalization, adaptability, and the evolution of the Connected Enterprise.

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Navigating Life Sciences Challenges with Advanced Software

Navigating Life Sciences Challenges with Advanced Software

Marti Cortada, of Adasoft, highlights some of the challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry, including regulations, scalability, traceability and supply chain resilience, and explains how modern solutions can address these concerns, with a particular focus on manufacturing execution software (MES).

Addressing the Demands of Traditional Steelwork with Modern Solutions

Addressing the Demands of Traditional Steelwork with Modern Solutions

Steel industry faces many challenges, including workforce concerns, productivity and sustainability. In this session, Antonio Ambra of AIC Group explains how they are using robotics and other digital technologies to keep factories running at 100%, with particular attention to safety, traceability and energy sourcing.

Ensuring Business Continuity through Digital Transformation

Ensuring Business Continuity through Digital Transformation

Giacomo Goitre from Ferrero discusses how the company ensures business continuity during rapid expansion by focusing on digital transformation and strategic partnerships. Learn how Ferrero optimizes efficiency across its plants through data analytics and secure, scalable infrastructure.

Why the Most Important Aspect of Innovation is Trust

Why the Most Important Aspect of Innovation is Trust

Andrew Ellis, VP Global Portfolio Engineering, Rockwell Automation, and Ashkan Ashouriha, chief architect Global Portfolio Engineering, Rockwell Automation, joined forces in the ROKStudios to talk about the importance of trust in relation to innovation.

How Partnerships Drive Digital Transformation

How Partnerships Drive Digital Transformation

No one company can do it all. That's why Nicole Denil, Vice President, Global Market Access, Rockwell Automation, joined us in the ROKStudios to discuss how partnerships help drive successful digital transformation programs.

Network Modernization to Deliver Digital Transformation

Network Modernization to Deliver Digital Transformation

Rockwell Automation technology consultant Andrew Bullock came into the ROKStudios, where he spoke at length about the integral role of network modernization and how it supports digital transformation.

The Impact of the Digital Thread on Quality Design

The Impact of the Digital Thread on Quality Design

Kalypso manager Uwe Kueppers joined the ROKStudios to explain how businesses can use the digital thread to improve quality and support customer demand - successfully navigating new regulations and customer demands.

Data Strategy and Governance for Digital Transformation

Data Strategy and Governance for Digital Transformation

Both Ashkan Ashouriha, chief architect Global Portfolio Engineering, Rockwell Automation, and Meghna Subramani, commercial product manager, Rockwell Automation, believe in the importance of a data strategy, and they joined us in the ROKStudios to explain why.

How Simulation Technology Helps Make Companies Less Risk Averse

How Simulation Technology Helps Make Companies Less Risk Averse

Felipe Knaesel Koch, head of product and technology innovation at Leonardo, and Stéphane Delacroix, head of studies, support and training at Hub Performance, join the ROKStudios to take a deep dive into simulation technology and how it can benefit manufacturers.

How the Future Factories Program Encourages Both Technological and Business Growth

How the Future Factories Program Encourages Both Technological and Business Growth

The Future Factories program is an incredibly exciting opportunity for manufacturing businesses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr Majid Al-Gwaiz, General Manager of Advanced Manufacturing & Innovation at the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, explained why this can benefit global manufacturers when he visited the ROKStudios.

Simple Ways You Can Make Your Digital Transformation Affordable

Simple Ways You Can Make Your Digital Transformation Affordable

00:00 06:14 3T-Saudi Chief Executive Officer Thiagu Bhojan joined the ROKStudios to discuss digital transformation, and why it might not be as expensive to achieve as manufacturers might initially believe.

Key Areas of Focus on Your Digitalization Journey

Key Areas of Focus on Your Digitalization Journey

Engineer Bandar Sanad Al Anazi, CEO at Rqeem for Smart Solutions took part in our recent ROKStudios session and outlined the key areas of focus for modern manufacturers regarding digital transformation. Especially when it comes to operating in the Middle East.

Digitalization to Support Your Workers, Not Replace Them

Digitalization to Support Your Workers, Not Replace Them

Jay Patel, Managing Director at Evostel, joins the ROKStudios to discuss digitalization and the many misconceptions he sees business leaders make when starting their digital transformation journey, especially in relation to their workforce.

Digitalizing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Global Goals, Local Future

Digitalizing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Global Goals, Local Future

Hussain Al-Khater, Managing Director Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Rockwell Automation, joined the ROKStudios to discuss the huge potential for growth in Saudi Arabia, the 2030 Vision, and what manufacturers can expect moving forward.

Cloud-Based Software as a Service: the Future of the Industrial Automation is Here

Cloud-Based Software as a Service: the Future of the Industrial Automation is Here

Ashkan Ashouriha advances the discussion around the Connected Enterprise, explaining why it’s a useful conceptual framework for industrial leaders seeking to modernize production operations.

Realizing the Customer Need for an Integrated Solution

Realizing the Customer Need for an Integrated Solution

In this ROKStudios session, Mark Harries, Pär Olsson and Roberta Tanzariello discuss the current state of smart manufacturing and how FANUC and Rockwell Automation can help organizations realize the benefits of integrated solutions, how they can enable flexible manufacturing and how they can reach their goals and get to market faster.

Data is the fuel of your organization

Data is the fuel of your organization

Jason Minto, vice president global sales at CoreTigo, outlines why data needs to be viewed as the fuel for your entire digital transformation journey, as he speaks with Stan Miller in the ROKStudios.

Make smart manufacturing personal to your company

Make smart manufacturing personal to your company

Michael Powell, managing director at Staro Integration, sits down with Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to talk about why manufacturers need to focus on the challenges and unique issues they are facing, rather than worrying about the competition.

Integrating legacy equipment with state-of-the-art solutions

Integrating legacy equipment with state-of-the-art solutions

Feby Mohammad, regional director at ProSoft Technology, joins Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to talk about how legacy systems can be integrated with state-of-the-art technologies to form a truly Connected Enterprise.

Unlocking the Power of Smart Manufacturing: Insights and Best Practices for Successful Implementation

Unlocking the Power of Smart Manufacturing: Insights and Best Practices for Successful Implementation

In his ROKStudios session, Bill McGee, vice president of solution and value engineering at Plex, discusses the role of smart manufacturing in relation to the future of the industry.

Find the Power of Your Data: Harnessing Innovation for Autonomous Smart Manufacturing

Find the Power of Your Data: Harnessing Innovation for Autonomous Smart Manufacturing

Ashkan Ashouriha, product manager for digital solutions & IIoT Rockwell Automation in EMEA, joined us in the ROKStudios, speaking about the role of data in smart manufacturing. See how new technology takes advantage of advances in data processing to deliver improved capabilities for manufacturers.

Why standardizing systems produces more valuable data

Why standardizing systems produces more valuable data

Etienne Fellay, IT Director at Constellium, joined us in the ROKStudios to look at the immense power a standardized data collection system can offer for manufacturing. From cost savings to easier integration, the benefits are huge.

Why a holistic approach to digital transformation is the right one for manufacturers

Why a holistic approach to digital transformation is the right one for manufacturers

In the ROKStudios, Sachin Mathur, director of software and control, Rockwell Automation EMEA, explains why a holistic approach to digital transformation is so important for manufacturing. It can save money, effort, and lead to greater results.

How Flexible Operations Unlocks the Potential to Target Local Markets

How Flexible Operations Unlocks the Potential to Target Local Markets

Do you want to make sure you’re reaching everyone you can, both on a global and local scale? Sergio Peracchi, UK director at PFM, explained how it’s possible to do both, when he sat down in the ROKStudios.

The Evolution of the Connected Enterprise

The Evolution of the Connected Enterprise

Ashkan Ashouriha explains that becoming a smart manufacturing company involves a broad transformation covering people, systems, data and devices. The Connected Enterprise offers a blueprint and digital service layer to help guide the design, operation and maintenance of such a smart manufacturing platform.

Connectivity is a form of currency

Connectivity is a form of currency

Susan Schaubhut, strategic account manager at Softing, speaks with Stan Miller in the ROKStudios to discuss all things relating to connectivity and how, when it comes to reliability and robustness, connectivity is king.

Ensuring successful digital manufacturing during volatile times

Ensuring successful digital manufacturing during volatile times

Together in the ROKStudios, Susana Gonzalez, president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Rockwell Automation, and Götz Erhardt, senior managing director at Accenture, discuss how digital manufacturing can help to ensure success, even during the most volatile and unstable of times.

Taking Software to the Cloud: What’s New and What’s Next for Digital Design

Taking Software to the Cloud: What’s New and What’s Next for Digital Design

Nicola Iovine, EMEA Strategic Business Developer at Rockwell Automation, joins Stan Miller to discuss Software-as-a-Service, and find out what’s next for digital design as the industry transitions towards cloud-based software.

Introduction to Physics-Based Digital Twins

Introduction to Physics-Based Digital Twins

Mark Bate, of Ansys, and Tim McCain, of Rockwell Automation, join Stan Miller in ROKStudios to introduce the concept of the physics-based digital twin and how it will soon become an essential manufacturing tool – thanks to its ability to improve problem-solving capabilities and to target specific problem points in ways that massively increase the probability of success.

Solve Challenges Faster and Easier with a Digital Twin

Solve Challenges Faster and Easier with a Digital Twin

Join Stan Miller in the ROKStudios as he speaks with Nicola Iovine, EMEA Strategic Business Developer at Rockwell Automation, who outlines the benefits of digital twin, how it helped manufacturers cope with the pandemic, and how this introduction has generated significant interest in applying the technology across the entire production cycle.

Collaborating with Microsoft for Edge-to-Cloud Industrial Digital Transformation

Collaborating with Microsoft for Edge-to-Cloud Industrial Digital Transformation

André Henriksson from Microsoft and Salma Ghafoor of Rockwell Automation discuss the value of adopting an Edge-to-Cloud deployment as part of a Connected Enterprise model, making the point that there is a symbiotic relationship between the two solutions, resulting in an integrated architecture that enables organization-wide improvements in efficiency, visibility and collaboration.

PTC and Rockwell Automation: Driving the Connected Enterprise Forward

PTC and Rockwell Automation: Driving the Connected Enterprise Forward

Laurie McDonald of PTC joined Rockwell Automation’s Adam Page and Stan Miller in ROKStudios to discuss the evolution of the partnership between PTC and Rockwell Automation. From software-as-a-service, through out-of-the-box and specific solutions, to advancements in augmented reality – watch here and see what’s new!

The Autonomous Enterprise: How AI is Advancing Automation to Autonomy

The Autonomous Enterprise: How AI is Advancing Automation to Autonomy

Alessandro Masiello provides insight into the evolution of the Connected Enterprise through the lens of autonomizing production processes. He describes how manufacturing is now in a new era characterized by the adoption of computing and process automation, where logical sequences can be programmed to increase the rate of production and lower variability.

Embracing the Technology of Smart Manufacturing

Embracing the Technology of Smart Manufacturing

Petr Havelka and Malte Dieckelmann share insights on the current state of smart manufacturing and how the technology involved is helping manufacturers to navigate challenging macroeconomic conditions, highlighting how Rockwell Automation and Plex’s SaaS-based solutions combine deep competences in automation hardware and software, to enable customers to become smarter in how they operate.

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