It is a necessary condition for industrial enterprises to maintain their competitiveness by rapidly formulating production cycle tightening and revenue maximization plans. Making informed decisions requires an in-depth understanding of operations and productivity, which often results from time-consuming IT projects and highly specialized skill levels. Today, Rockwell Automation announced an upgrade to its FactoryTalk Analytics product line, which helps users make informed decisions quickly and decisively. This new upgrade is designed to help manufacturers, manufacturers, and employees working in operations to reduce the complexity of the operating environment.

FactoryTalk Analytics is now ready for large-scale applications that can discover and connect data sources at the edge of the network and throughout the enterprise, and then intelligently integrate information to solve problems on the side of the data source. By analyzing data on the edge or device side, production problems can be solved in near real time. FactoryTalk Analytics also integrates machine learning capabilities that allow deep learning of production and operations processes and summarize data trends to help users anticipate and prevent problems in advance.

FactoryTalk Analytics brings modern user experience features that have become commonplace in the consumer experience world into the production environment. FactoryTalk Analytics focuses on improving ease of use and productivity, providing Internet-like production data search capabilities and self-service detailed browsing capabilities, allowing users to quickly make decisions based on data.

Rockwell Automation has selected Microsoft Azure Cloud as the platform of choice for FactoryTalk Analytics to help them develop and promote advanced IoT solutions from the edge to the cloud.

Prior to the release of the official version of FactoryTalk Analytics, Rockwell Automation conducted several customer pilot applications, resulting in a number of purpose-driven applications that highlighted high ease of use and rapid value return.

In a pilot solar panel manufacturer, customers used FactoryTalk Analytics to connect early system data sources across multiple plants. Now, the customer can efficiently manage local data and cloud data, dramatically reducing downtime while saving up to millions of dollars in IT spending.

Another global automaker involved in the pilot used FactoryTalk Analytics technology to increase operational efficiency. These goal-driven applications bring data together from a decentralized system. This has been difficult to achieve in the past. It is also a bottleneck for workers to investigate production problems. The solution enables production managers and senior managers to take a fresh look at key operational areas and help them more accurately predict production goals.

“Intelligent manufacturing technology has the ability to eliminate blind spots between organizational silos and give users direct access to information,” said Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation. “With our extensive experience in production applications, combined with the technical advantages of both control and information capabilities, we can help existing and new factories effectively increase their productivity. It is worth mentioning that our partners can use these solutions. Improve the value of your products."

"In a rapidly changing production environment, solving problems quickly, or even predicting problems in advance, and then avoiding the risk of business interruption, is a capability that is vital in any area or industry." Joe Sousa, President, Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Said. “As a region with rapid development in the Asia-Pacific region, we need FactoryTalk, a high-level analysis platform that allows users to solve problems and create tangible business results, especially for competitiveness.”

FactoryTalk Analytics began its pilot application in November last year under the name “Project Scio” and is now officially released worldwide.