Rockwell Automation e-News
Volume 15 • Issue 2 • February 2010
To help you stay current with our latest product and service offerings, here's what you can find on the Rockwell Automation Web sites this month.
Sustainability is good business.
"Pushing sustainability toward the top of the corporate agenda is about more than mitigating threats. It is about seizing opportunities. A green agenda translates into more-efficient use of resources and energy—and hence a strengthened bottom line."
— Maurice Berns, Boston Consulting Group and Michael Hopkins, MIT Sloan Management Review, "Seizing the reins on sustainability," Nov. 30, 2009.
Rather than stay on the defensive as regulations intensify, chart your own course and gain a long-term, competitive advantage. Save money in energy, raw materials, scrap and waste — and free up resources for use elsewhere – with advanced automation solutions for sustainable production from Rockwell Automation that address:
- Energy conservation and efficiency
- Environmental responsibility and resource management
- Safety for workers, machinery, processes, and products
Get in front of the curve. For support and resources, visit our Sustainable Production Web site. And, in the latest issue of The Journal, available Feb. 5, learn how solutions can enable sustainable production and drive economic value.
Product, Service and Solution News
Integrated Architecture™ Solutions
Address market challenges with convergence-ready solutions
Manufacturing convergence integrates the plant floor with enterprise IT systems to unify your people, processes and technology — turning your resources into assets. Integrated Architecture facilitates manufacturing convergence through control and information solutions that turn your resources into assets.
Fully scalable, fully animated Web displays of your applications make the newest release of FactoryTalk ViewPoint software the perfect tool to monitor your plant floor operations from virtually any location.
Has your IP traffic increased with new applications like CIP Motion, CIP Safety and I/O? If so, proper and secure network segmentation becomes even more important Our Stratix 8300™ switch with Layer 3 functionality communicates between segmented networks for better performance, better security and protection from broadcast storms.
Download the new Integrated Architecture brochure, to find out how we can help you drive plant wide optimization, and:
- Improve productivity with better asset utilization and system performance
- Promote globalization with easy access to actionable, plantwide information
- Support sustainability with extended product lifecycles and better asset utilization
- Cultivate innovation with increased system flexibility and technical risk mitigation
Safety Solutions
Are you ready to comply with the European machine directive? While the European Commission is providing an additional 24 months to meet new safety standards, we can help machine builders to comply now with EN ISO 13849-1. Our functional safety guidance helps improve safety, efficiency and sustainability while reducing development and operational costs.
Events
Don't miss the premier of RSTechED 2010, June 6-11, Los Angeles. This training event offers best-in-class education for manufacturing and production professionals. Registration opens April 2010. 
International Life Sciences Symposium, June 16-17, Montpellier, France. Experts in the Life Sciences industry will help you find solutions to the challenges you face: increased competition, drug counterfeiting, pandemics, globalization, and more. Attend to share best practices and find out how to improve your operational efficiencies through integrated automation and information solutions. Register.
Resources
- "What Matters" e-Newsletter series: Information Matters. Information-enabled machines help manufacturers gain critical operational insight to succeed in today’s knowledge-based business environment. This issue focuses on ways machine builders can seamlessly bridge the gap between the plant floor and the rest of the enterprise. Download a PDF version. Subscribe
- Automation Fair® 2009 was an exceptional educational value, and now you can have a DVD containing all of the presentations. Order a copy of publication number AF-SP001E-EN-C through your local Rockwell Automation sales office or distributor.
- During our annual Safety Automation Forum, industry speakers and experts discussed safety's importance within the manufacturing industry. Access the event presentations to understand the value of successful implementation. Learn more about the latest approaches to safety, and how you can apply the latest global safety standards to guide implementation.
(Please note that the information in this e-News represents recent additions to Rockwell Automation Web sites. Check with your Rockwell Automation sales representative for local availability of these products and services.)