Rockwell Automation Announces Mobility Co-Innovation with Microsoft
November 12 2015 - 12:42PM
Business Wire
Developments illustrate how The Connected Enterprise will
deliver the next wave of manufacturing productivity.
Industrial workers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to
improve productivity and collaboration. However, interfaces need to
be tailored to the specific device that is being used, especially
to design, operate and maintain industrial automation systems. To
meet this user preference, Rockwell Automation and Microsoft Corp.
are announcing a mobility co-innovation project designed for
industrial environments where a wireless network connection is not
always reliable.
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Industrial workers are increasingly
turning to mobile devices to improve productivity and
collaboration. A new mobility co-innovation project, designed for
industrial settings by Rockwell Automation and Microsoft Corp.,
will be demonstrated at the Automation Fair event in Chicago, Nov.
18 and 19. (Photo: Business Wire)
The co-innovation brings together leading IP technology from
Project Thali (@Thaliproject), an open-source solution incubated by
Microsoft. It also includes JXcore from Nubisa Inc., and
complements the expanding mobile foundation toolkit from Rockwell
Automation. The toolkit enables Rockwell Automation offerings with
a consistent web-based user interface for a specific device;
tablet, smartphone or desktop and now includes a prototype app,
dubbed Project Stanton (@Project_Stanton). Both the product toolkit
adopters and a new app prototype will be demonstrated at the
Automation Fair event in Chicago, Nov. 18 and 19.
“Project Stanton represents the most forward and innovative
thinking in the industry when it comes to mobility and a modern,
mobile-first architecture,” said Sujeet Chand, chief technology
officer, Rockwell Automation. “Microsoft, Nubisa and Rockwell
Automation have made significant investments to deliver
unprecedented value to industrial users through innovation and
leveraging computing power in mobile devices to overcome the
existing boundaries and limitations in anytime, anywhere access to
valuable information in an enterprise.”
“Microsoft has partnered with Rockwell Automation to look at
some of the most difficult challenges in industrial IoT,” said John
Shewchuk, Technical Fellow, Microsoft. “Rockwell Automation is one
of the leaders in the field and so it has been great to work on
Project Stanton. Our joint work has been instrumental in setting
the direction for the Thali Project work to provide secure
peer-to-peer communications and improve industrial
productivity.”
The mobility developments support The Connected Enterprise
vision: the convergence of operations and information technology
that will deliver the next wave of manufacturing productivity.
Enhanced by the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things and
advances in enabling technologies – including mobility, data
analytics, and remote monitoring – The Connected Enterprise creates
opportunities for unprecedented benefits in productivity and global
competitiveness through greater connectivity and information
sharing.
“The Connected Enterprise is an imperative to face future
competitiveness challenges at many levels,” said Chand. “Not only
is this vision important to meet ongoing macroeconomic challenges,
but it is critical for almost every type of manufacturer to drive
new heights of competitive differentiation. Our co-innovation with
Microsoft is one way that customers can build their Connected
Enterprise.”
Rockwell Automation Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest
company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes
its customers more productive and the world more sustainable.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs about
22,500 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.
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