November 18, 2019 – Rockwell Automation announced market momentum for its PTC partnership and joint digital transformation solutions. This performance includes a year of achievements spanning customers and use cases, innovations designed to accelerate the integration OT and IT systems, and industry recognition for the two companies’ combined industrial software suite, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC .
Since the inception of the partnership in 2018, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC has experienced:
- Rapid customer adoption and global growth:Customer engagements for FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC have grown across 21 countries, including some of the world’s largest automotive, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, oil & gas, and pharmaceutical companies.
- Operational and Information Technology integration: OT/IT integration is the key to accelerating innovation and achieving productivity gains at digital transformation scale.
- Industry recognition.Rockwell Automation, PTC, and the combined software suite have been acknowledged in numerous analyst research reports over the past year, including reports from Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and ABI Research.
Leading use cases include Digital Workforce Productivity, Enterprise Operational Intelligence, Intelligent Asset Optimization, and Scalable Production Management.
The joint offering delivers OT/IT integration capabilities including asset and system auto-discovery, data model sharing and re-use, integrated analytics, and AR empowerment.
Most recently, the companies’ Factory Talk Innovation Suite was recognized as Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems for the Second Consecutive Year, and received the IoT Innovator Award: Manufacturing & Factory from Compass Intelligence .
FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC, works to improve connectivity to operational technology (OT) devices on the plant floor, natively supporting the rapid, scalable and secure connection of most industrial equipment. Combined with data from information technology (IT) applications and systems, decision makers can now gain a complete digital representation of their industrial equipment, lines and facilities from anywhere in the enterprise. Utilizing advanced innovations in machine learning, IIoT and augmented reality (AR), this comprehensive suite conceptualizes and connects data to make it accessible and insightful for operations personnel.