Panduit and Rockwell Automation Form Strategic Alliance to Help Customers Simplify, Optimise and Accelerate Deployment of Industrial Networks
30/10/2012 Rockwell Automation
Panduit and Rockwell Automation form alliance to drive integrated solutions to market and accelerate adoption of EtherNet/IP network29th October 2012 - Rockwell Automation and Panduit have expanded their long-standing Encompass product-referencing relationship and have formed a strategic alliance.
Rockwell Automation, the world's leading industrial automation company, and Panduit, a world-class developer and provider of physical infrastructure solutions, are creating innovative and comprehensive offerings. Together, they are driving integrated solutions that help companies reduce risk, improve reliability, and successfully implement EtherNet/IP solutions and architectures.
The two companies are focused on providing optimised physical network infrastructure solutions, effective collaboration between automation and IT, and integrated solutions and services for customers globally. Panduit and Rockwell Automation also plan to work with companies, like Cisco, to help customers seamlessly integrate logical architectures to physical deployment from initial design, maintenance and operations throughout the entire enterprise.
"A strong alignment of Panduit and Rockwell Automation technologies and architectures simplifies network design and integration for our common customers," said Tom Donovan, president, Panduit. "Our combined capabilities reduce risk, operational costs, and time-to-market."
"Our mutual customers need a robust, secure and future-ready Ethernet physical infrastructure for their industrial environments," said John McDermott, senior vice president, Global Sales and Marketing, Rockwell Automation. "Together, we can now offer comprehensive logical to physical plantwide infrastructure solutions and architectures leveraging EtherNet/IP to provide the level of performance, manageability and security required for today's industrial networks."
Initial emphasis of the collaboration will be placed on integration of physical implementation, employing best practices and industry standards, providing education and services to facilitate manufacturing and IT convergence, and enabling successful architecture deployment.
For further information, please contact Andrea Burt:
Rockwell Automation Ltd, Pitfield, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes K11 3DR Tel 0870 242 5004 Fax 01908 839696 E-mail: aburt@ra.rockwell.com Web: www.rockwellautomation.co.uk
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