Rockwell Automation has made significant performance gains in recent years. Productivity has grown by more than 4%, lead times for its manufactured goods have been cut in half and on-time deliveries are up to 98%.
For a company 22,500 employees, nearly 400,000 SKUs and 20 global manufacturing plants, gains like this require top-level thinking and co-ordination. Under the banner of The Connected Enterprise, Rockwell Automation set about bringing together its information technologies (IT) and operational technologies (OT) to create a single globe-spanning system. As part of this rationalisation process, the…
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