A tree that hugs is born at the last minute

When Rockwell Automation is mentioned, the industry will think of its award-winning PLCS and drives, and its ControlLogix® family is the world leader in the market share of large PLCS, a market that includes global giants such as Siemens and Schneider.

In 1985, Rockwell International acquired AB (Allen-Bradley) and gradually built the main body of Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell International, founded in 1928 as the North American Aerospace Company, built more than 15,000 AT-6 trainers during World War II, and introduced the B-25 bomber and P-51 fighter in 1940.

In the 1960s, North American aerospace companies built rocket launchers and spacecraft for the Apollo space program. In 1991, the space shuttle Endeavour was launched, and the energy system for Space Station Freedom was also built.

In 1996, the company undertook a major strategic shift to become the world’s leading electronics company in industrial automation, semiconductor systems, avionics and communications systems.

At that time, it was the period of industry change after the birth of the Internet, and Rockwell Automation began to transform from an automation company to a digital company.

Shi An pointed out: As one of the mainstream players leading the fourth industrial revolution, Rockwell Automation is committed to continuously contributing the century-old automation, digitalization and intelligent cross-border innovation power to ecological partners in various fields, and as a trusted producer service chain owner to continue to empower customers through innovative technologies and solutions including the integration of IT information technology and OT operation technology. Fully enable the smart manufacturing upgrade of partners, so that they can adapt to a variety of digital scenarios equivalent to the requirements and capabilities of lighthouse factories, and successfully transform and upgrade.

Rockwell Automation has its own unique digital transformation path, and has effectively strengthened its digital ecology by building an alliance of industrial software manufacturers:

In 2018, it invested $1 billion in PTC, an industrial software giant and one of the world’s top three CAD manufacturers.

In 2019, a strategic partnership with ANSYS, the world’s largest engineering simulation giant, to help customers develop digital twins for simulation-based products, processes or manufacturing;

In 2020, a five-year expansion of the partnership with Microsoft was announced to provide customers with comprehensive, simple solutions for industrial iot development and operations, and to eliminate data silos that hinder industrial digital transformation initiatives.

In addition, Rockwell Automation also cooperates with Accenture, EPLAN and other giants in different fields to improve their digital circle of friends and build a complete digital ecology. Thanks to the advanced layout, Rockwell Automation introduced the intelligent Operations Rockii solution, which was originally born to address the challenges of people mobility and enterprise production continuity during an outbreak.

Intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution is supported by innovative technologies such as industrial Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, digital twin, etc. It is a future-oriented, end-to-end digital transformation platform created by Rockwell Automation, and comprehensively covers the three-layer architecture of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud services. It has the characteristics of openness, compatibility and sustainable expansion.

The solution enables customers to develop and deliver products quickly, enabling enterprises to control, develop and validate, redefine value creation, and achieve incremental value. In 2022, at the fifth CIIE, Rockwell Automation established the Intelligent operation and Maintenance Rockii Alliance, Shi An introduced that since the establishment of the alliance, it has joined hands with upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to gather wisdom and gather policies, and help more ecological partners trigger the qualitative change of open source through the quantitative change of throttling, and realize the qualitative change of subverting the industry from the quantitative change of open source. Create and share new opportunities for win-win cross-border cooperation.