Industrial Automation Magazine India

PTC extends alliances with Rockwell Automation and Microsoft to accelerate DX

Published on : Friday 12-06-2020

The alliance introduces Factory Insights as a Service – a turnkey cloud solution – offering for industrial enterprises.

Boston, June 2020 – PTC and Rockwell Automation Inc., have announced Factory Insights as a Service, a turnkey cloud solution that enables manufacturers to achieve unprecedented impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives. The new offering, unveiled during PTC’s Global Partner Summit event at the LiveWorx® 2020 digital transformation event, marks a significant advancement to the collaboration among Rockwell Automation, Microsoft, and PTC.

Factory Insights as a Service, powered by technology from PTC, Rockwell Automation, and Microsoft, is delivered in the cloud in a turnkey fashion and supports the industry’s most common high-value digital transformation use cases:

1- Real-time Production Performance Monitoring

2- Asset Monitoring and Utilisation

3- Connected Work Cells, and

4- Digital and Augmented Work Instructions.

Factory Insights as a Service includes many of the key product components of PTC and Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk® InnovationSuite, including PTC’s industry-leading ThingWorx®, Kepware®, and Vuforia® products, optimised for OT data coming from Rockwell Automation’s best-in-class automation and information offerings. It leverages Microsoft’s cloud, industrial IoT, and edge services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge, enabling manufacturers to rapidly connect individual sites and implement projects across their enterprise network. This enables customers to save time and money by reducing the complexity that they typically undertake as part of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) implementation and greater digital transformation effort. Factory Insights as a Service is a perfect on-ramp for manufacturers interested in improving their operations by providing valuable intelligence and insights on operational performance, asset utilisation, and workforce efficiency.

“Factory Insights as a Service offers our industrial customers a leaner, accelerated approach to digital transformation,” said Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO, PTC. “The offering reduces reliance on IT and OT resources, and, most importantly, takes a value-first approach that allows manufacturers to focus on initiatives that create business impact at scale.”