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Registrations open for India Inc On The Move 2025

The event will be held on Feb 19 at Andaz, by Hyatt, Aerocity, New Delhi

Rockwell Automation, in association with The Economic Times, presents - India Inc On The Move (IIOTM) 2025: Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing. 

The sixth edition of IIOTM will host keynotes, industry sessions, technical sessions, and live demos, featuring Rockwell Automation leaders, guest speakers, technology visionaries, customers and partners.

The day-long event will bring together leaders from the manufacturing industry, innovators, and policymakers, who will collaboratively discuss and share their thoughts on smart and sustainable manufacturing. Register for the event here.

Edge Compute Module for ControlLogix

Enhance your ControlLogix with In-Chassis Edge Device Supporting Docker Containers

The Embedded Edge Compute Module builds on Rockwell Automation's recent history of enabling computation functionality expanding the power of the ControlLogix® platform.  This in-chassis edge solution provides key scalability and remote support functions to today’s workforce. At first release, the Embedded Edge Compute Module enables FactoryTalk® Optix™ software and provides a communication path to REST API, OPC UA, and MQTT to meet the needs of various applications.

The latest firmware update for the Embedded Edge Compute Module introduces the Docker Engine, which enables the hosting and deployment of containerized apps, including Rockwell Automation apps, third-party apps (such as Node-Red and Grafana) and low-code apps allowing users to build, integrate and deploy applications quickly and efficiently. This update significantly enhances the module’s capabilities, emphasizing IT/OT convergence and simplifying control software management.

Learn more here.

Rockwell Automation names Brian Hovey Chief Marketing Officer

Brian Hovey has been named vice president, Global Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer. He reports to Scott Genereux, senior vice president and Chief Revenue Officer.

In his new role, Hovey has global responsibility to lead the marketing of Rockwell’s full portfolio. With a focus on driving demand and building the brand globally, he oversees industry strategy, marketing communications, analyst relations, demand generation, and commercial marketing.

Hovey joins Rockwell with more than 25 years of global leadership experience, most recently as vice president, Sales Excellence, Safety and Productivity Solutions at Honeywell. Prior to that, he held multiple marketing leadership roles across the company including vice president, Chief Marketing Officer for Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions. He spent 14 years leading marketing organizations at Dell Technologies with a focus on driving growth and marketing transformation for Dell's B-to-B business.

Learn more here.

Rockwell Automation Launches FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI: Advanced AI-Powered Vision Inspection for Enhanced Quality Control

Rockwell Automation introduces FactoryTalk^® Analytics™ VisionAI™, a cutting-edge inspection solution that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to revolutionize quality control in manufacturing.

FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI is designed to help manufacturers improve product quality, maximize yield and gain critical insights from real-time production data. This no-code solution allows quality personnel and plant operators to easily train AI models and deploy them across production lines without needing specialized machine vision expertise.

Key features include:

• Advanced Anomaly Detection
• Remote visibility, configuration and management
• Out of the box analytics
• Seamless automation integration
• Scalable Hardware

Learn more here.

Rockwell Automation Brings Autonomous Operations to Life Using NVIDIA Omniverse

Industry powerhouses drive advanced manufacturing at scale with AI and digital twins

Rockwell Automation is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse application programming interfaces into its Emulate3D™ digital twin software to enhance factory operations through artificial intelligence and physics-based simulation technology.

Rockwell Automation's Emulate3D software uses the latest NVIDIA Omniverse APIs to create factory-scale dynamic digital twins based on OpenUSD interoperability and NVIDIA RTX rendering technologies. While visualization was previously possible, this enhancement enables true emulation and dynamic testing of multiple machines within a system. This integration, planned for early 2025, will enable improved visualization and simulation capabilities for manufacturing environments.

Read more here.

Rockwell and Kezzler Protect Public Health by Tackling Food Traceability Challenges

An estimated 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world – get sick after eating contaminated food, according to the World Health Organization. To address this concern, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed, created a regulatory framework around food safety.

These expanded compliance and traceability requirements significantly increase the volume and complexity of data to manage—requiring the capture and maintenance of specific Key Data Elements at Critical Tracking Events.

The challenge for many companies: these data elements often reside in separate, non-interoperable systems and entities, spanning records from production, handling, and shipment of finished goods. The solution requires verifying that every ingredient can be tracked from its origin to the finished product through sufficiently unique Traceability Lot Codes. The ability to ‘connect the dots’ can enhance compliance and operational efficiency, boost consumer confidence, and protect public health.

Rockwell Automation Plex and FactoryTalk® solutions, combined with Kezzler’s digital ID solutions, enable producers to elevate processing and factory data captured within the four walls of the plant into a single-source query product genealogy.

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FactoryTalk DataMosaix from Rockwell Automation Offers Ease and Speed to Visualization

Rockwell Automation introduces FactoryTalk® DataMosaix™ App Builder, a low/no code application development builder that’s tightly integrated with FactoryTalk DataMosaix, an industrial DataOps solution providing flexible options that fit most business needs. FactoryTalk DataMosaix enables customers to manage the application and their data, if required, on cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or in an on-premise datacenter.

Now, with the App Builder, customers can easily and quickly configure new dashboards with a variety of pre-defined visualization tools in a drag-and-drop interface. Render content on a desktop or mobile device and easily select contextualized data from FactoryTalk DataMosaix.

The solution brings data to the people who need it across the organization for a new level of productivity and innovation.

Learn more here.

Rockwell Automation Advances FactoryTalk Optix Portfolio with DataReady Smart Machine Application, Enhancing Real-Time Industrial Automation Insights

New solution empowers machine-level visualization, seamless data flow, and edge-to-cloud analytics, driving operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities

Rockwell Automation announces the advancement of the FactoryTalk® Optix™ portfolio through DataReady™ smart machines. This update to the FactoryTalk Optix portfolio enables contextualized machine data that’s ready to deliver operational value.

“Rockwell is innovating rapidly with the FactoryTalk Optix portfolio, introducing significant enhancements that give customers real benefits,” said JP Wright, director of Production Automation Visualization at Rockwell Automation. “The FactoryTalk Optix platform value extends beyond HMI to support edge data collection and exchange with enterprise applications such as analytics to optimize production and connectivity with operations management applications such as DataMosaix™, the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ and Fiix® maintenance software to accelerate digital transformation. The FactoryTalk Optix portfolio is one of the most complete HMI and data platforms in the industry.”

FactoryTalk Optix offers users modern development practices that are proven to speed time to market, lower total development costs and improve quality through concepts such as continuous integration and continuous deployment, automated test, system simulation, multi-user collaboration, version control system integration and several others. Additionally, users benefit from flexible licensing options, allowing them to pay only for the features they need, based on the specific capabilities of their applications.

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Rockwell Automation Introduces Sustainability Calculator for Repairs, Empowering Companies to Achieve Corporate Sustainability Goals Through Environmental Impact Quantification

To promote reuse and help customers with their corporate sustainability goals and commitments, Rockwell Automation offers the Sustainability Calculator for Repairs, a tool that quantifies the environmental impact of remanufacturing and repair.

Operational insights and an easy-to-consume dashboard allow companies to quantify their remanufacturing strategy’s environmental effects, focusing on carbon emissions, energy and waste. The sustainability calculator reviews product type, dimensions, and weight and calculates how much carbon emissions would be saved by repairing a product vs. replacing it.

Learn more about the calculator here.

Rockwell Automation Helps Royal Mint Reduce E-Waste in Precious Metal-Recovery Facility

The Royal Mint’s new Precious Metals Recovery facility uses the PlantPAx® DCS (distributed control system) from Rockwell Automation to manage and control the gold extraction process.

After two years of design and manufacture, the plant is now operational and provides a strong foundation for further expansion of this technology to support the world’s challenges with electronic waste, which is simply discarded electrical or electronic devices. The World Health Organization says it’s the fastest growing solid waste stream in the world, increasing three times faster than the world's population.

The PlantPAx DCS at The Royal Mint’s facility is used to monitor and control a chemical extraction process that can remove gold from e-waste such as printed circuit boards found in discarded mobile phones and laptops. The extraction technology, which was only at lab scale a few years ago, has been successfully scaled and is now operational at its site in Llantrisant, Wales.

Learn more about the project.

Rockwell Automation Teams Up with Circulor to Enhance Supply Chain Traceability for Auto, Tire, and Battery Industries

Collaboration empowers manufacturers to meet new regulatory requirements, including the Digital Product Passport, with advanced traceability solutions, driving sustainability and operational efficiency

Rockwell Automation has a new collaboration with Circulor, a leading supply chain traceability solution provider. This effort aims to help customers trace the origin of raw materials from source to final product, ensuring transparency across the entire supply chain while promoting more sustainable practices.

Through this work, Rockwell will offer advanced traceability solutions that enable manufacturers to meet emerging regulatory requirements while verifying the source materials, demonstrating digital chain-of-custody, and tracking emissions. With evolving global regulations demanding greater transparency, Circulor’s platform ensures compliance by providing a holistic view of the materials journey – from raw extraction to the finished battery. This empowers customers to not only adhere to regulatory standards but also achieve their sustainability goals, ensuring a more responsible and efficient supply chain.

More information here.

Rockwell Automation Brings New Wireless Interfaces, New Edge to Stratix® 4300

The Stratix® 4300 Remote Access™ Router solution now has both Wi-Fi and LTE (cellular) wireless options available. These options include Ethernet only (existing product with 2 or 5 ports), Ethernet and Wi-Fi (2 or 5 ports), Ethernet and LTE (2 or 5 ports), and Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and LTE (2 or 5 ports).

The addition of these wireless interfaces for Wi-Fi and LTE (cellular) allows customers to use the Stratix 4300 in applications where a physical Ethernet connection may be difficult or not desired. Wireless options on the Stratix 4300 router help users reduce downtime, maintain business continuity, and enable a productive workforce.

Learn more about the Stratix 4300.