Automation Today - 1-2008

Welcome to this edition of Automation Today

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One of the toughest challenges facing manufacturers today is the ability to quickly share information between the factory floor and the boardroom. Ensuring the very latest information is at hand to allow management to make quick decisions is crucial to the profitability of a modern manufacturer. Rockwell Automation has been working with Cisco to help our customers solve this problem and you will read later in the magazine how this collaboration has resulted in the launch of a Rockwell Automation and Cisco co-branded line of managed network switches. The first of its kind, this industrial managed switch line will benefit both the IT and manufacturing sides of a business to share information.

Rockwell Automation has also made headlines with another first in the customer service arena. Our five Technical Support Centres around the world have achieved renewed SCP Certification for their handling of 50,000 customers worldwide and responding to more than 60,000 calls a month. The SCP Standards measure the effectiveness of customer service and support, and represent best practices in the industry. Rockwell Automation’s centres in the UK, Germany, Brazil and Australia have all made the grade for the past 4-6 years running with the North American centre attaining SCP-certification for a world first, 10th year running.

As well as groundbreaking news, this issue of Automation Today again demonstrates how customers around the world are using Rockwell Automation to address their day-to-day challenges. In this edition you can read how the Hero food company has improved quality and reduced costs in its automation systems, how the pharmaceutical industry is streamlining its production processes and how rising energy costs are motivating many to explore new methods to lower operating costs and the total cost of ownership of capital assets.

As ever, I hope you will find this in-depth view of manufacturing’s automation challenges a useful insight.

Jordi Andreu
President – EMEA Region
Rockwell Automation

In this issue:

Latest News announced in Automation Today 1-2008
• Towards IT and control engineering convergence
• Making the switch Production scheduling
With narrow profit margins in their industry, food and beverage manufacturers must produce the right product in the right quantities at the right time.

Plant-wide control
Many industry sectors using hybrid processes have been waiting for truly unified solutions, capable of controlling and managing plant. The challenges of food and beverage manufacturing
Today's consumer world appears to have an insatiable hunger (and thirst) for new brands of food and beverages.

Turpins Packaging Systems
Economics and accounting ratios are starting to feature as strongly as technological capability when specifying modern automation systems. Intelligent use of motor control solutions
Rising energy prices are motivating many to explore new methods of lowering operating costs, as well as the total cost of ownership (TCO) of any capital investments made.

A modern Hero
The Hero food company has improved quality and reduced costs by using FactoryTalk AssetCentre to document and control changes in its automation systems. Passport to safety
In today's marketplace, you have to think globally. This is where functional safety can help.

Streamlining production processes
The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a process of fundamental change. Predictive maintenance for business goals
Equipment failure – two words that strike fear into the heart of any plant operations manager.

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Automation Today - 1-2008


Latest News announced in Automation Today 1-2008 • Towards IT and control engineering convergence • Making the switch		Production scheduling With narrow profit margins in their industry, food and beverage manufacturers must produce the right product in the right quantities at the right time.

Plant-wide control Many industry sectors using hybrid processes have been waiting for truly unified solutions, capable of controlling and managing plant.		The challenges of food and beverage manufacturing Today's consumer world appears to have an insatiable hunger (and thirst) for new brands of food and beverages.

Turpins Packaging Systems Economics and accounting ratios are starting to feature as strongly as technological capability when specifying modern automation systems.		Intelligent use of motor control solutions Rising energy prices are motivating many to explore new methods of lowering operating costs, as well as the total cost of ownership (TCO) of any capital investments made.

A modern Hero The Hero food company has improved quality and reduced costs by using FactoryTalk AssetCentre to document and control changes in its automation systems.		Passport to safety In today's marketplace, you have to think globally. This is where functional safety can help.

Streamlining production processes The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a process of fundamental change.		Predictive maintenance for business goals Equipment failure – two words that strike fear into the heart of any plant operations manager.