1. John Dyck, Software Business Development Director,
Making industrial machines smarter with cloud-connected IoT solution
Specialists in industrial automation and information solutions, Rockwell Automation has customers in more than 80 countries, 22,000 employees, and reported annual revenue of US $5.9 billion in To give customers real-time operational insight, the company decided to integrate the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise operating system with existing manufacturing equipment and software, and connect the on-premises infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. The end-to-end solution provides operational insight in milliseconds instead of hours and puts advanced analytics within easy reach of customers worldwide.
“By creating a compute platform based on Windows 10 IoT and Azure, we can place an application on the edge where the customer is comfortable and then drop that application just as quickly into the cloud tomorrow if it becomes advantageous to do so.”
John Dyck, Software Business Development Director,
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation has customers in more than 80 countries, 22,000 employees, and reported annual revenue of US$5.9 billion in 2016.
With immediate access to data at the point of operation, customers no longer need to wait until the end of a shift to make changes.