The Power of Partners: Accelerating Your Transition to Smart Manufacturing
January 18, 2021
And while the need is great, especially with increasing global complexity and supply chain challenges, few companies can offer everything a manufacturer needs to realize a full digital transformation – including ways to bridge technical and cultural gaps between production and business systems.
Partner Ecosystems Accelerate Transition to Smart Manufacturing
The pain points are significant for companies attempting digital transformation as a solo activity. The simple truth is this: you will need different partners from a broad ecosystem to achieve your goals and to deliver value to your customers.
It’s those partners who will understand Information Technology (IT) structure and security, and most importantly bridge the gap between IT and Operations Technology (OT). They have the deep expertise to leverage technology – hardware and software – to solve an immediate problem and support systems moving forward.
Partnerships Help Manufacturers Achieve More
If you are navigating IT/OT convergence challenges, one way you can more quickly and seamlessly realize your digital transformation vision and goals – including improving security, reducing operational risk, and enhancing business integration, performance, and continuity – is to utilize the combined strengths of industry-leading companies.
Rockwell Automation and Cisco have a long-time strategic alliance that combines Cisco’s global leadership position and domain expertise in IT networking and security with our OT domain and automation expertise. The goal of our strategic alliance is to help manufacturers become more agile, optimize production yield, and minimize risk.
This is important if you want to:
- Modernize your operations through a convergence of OT and IT.
- Develop a network architecture that reduces complexity and risk while providing end-to-end visibility and control of all assets.
- Stronger Together
We selected Cisco as a strategic partner because they extend our portfolio and offer technology specifically around security and networking that extends value to our customers.
This relationship is two best-of-breed companies coming together to create the full value for customers. We are stronger together than we are alone.
In recognition of the strength of this partnership, at Cisco’s annual partner conference, Rockwell Automation was honored with the EMEA IoT/Industry Partner of the Year Award. We were recognized for innovation, leadership, and best practices as a Cisco business partner across EMEA.
This recognition validates what we do and how we work. Cisco, a leader in the IT space, acknowledges the value of this partnership and our partner-friendly culture.
When it’s time to pick your partner for your digital transformation, look first at companies who believe in what they can offer and who have chosen the strongest partners to fill the gaps. Then, use those partners to create the right blueprint to design and deploy the industrial network infrastructure you need.
