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Rockwell Automation Wins Three Prestigious Awards

from the Asian Manufacturing Awards 2015 Competition

Rockwell Automation, the largest com- “Rockwell Automation has completed cations – standardise on a single-con-
pany dedicated to industrial automation its journey to become a Connect- trol platform for efficient and secure
and information solutions, was named ed Enterprise – deploying the same plantwide optimisation. Our modular,
the Best Internet of Things (IoT) Pro- technologies it supplies to customers scalable, multi-discipline programma-
vider, the Best Programmable Control around the world, rigorously connect- ble controllers manage motion, drive,
Systems Provider, and the Best Machine ing manufacturing-execution systems process, batch, safety and discrete pro-
Safety Systems Provider by Contineo to business-critical IT systems to share cesses and yield system-wide real-time
Media, the organiser of the Asian Man- contextualised information seamlessly. information availability, reduced system
ufacturing Awards 2015 – recognising The company is leveraging the pro- cost, improved productivity and max-
excellence in control, instrumentation, liferation of connected field devices, imised performance,” said Steven Goh,
and automation products and services big data/analytics, cloud computing, Business Director, Asia Pacific Business
across the region, which enable man- virtualisation and mobility, so that its Centre, Rockwell Automation.
ufacturers in Asia to reach and sustain customers are further productive and Finally, Rockwell Automation was
world-class performance. the world is more sustainable,” said honoured as the Best Machine Safety
For the fourth year, the editorial team Co Gia Nguyen, Vice President and Systems Provider, in appreciation of
in the Manufacturing Group at Con- General Manager, Asia Pacific Business its comprehensive portfolio of safety
tineo Media – publisher of Asia Food Centre, Rockwell Automation. “We are solutions including integrated controls,
Journal, Control Engineering Asia, pleased to be recognised a second time relays, switches, sensors, drives, I/O
Logistics Insight Asia, Payload Asia, as the Best IoT Provider in Asia, as it is modules and connection systems. The
and PharmaAsia, as well as publications a testament to our strong commitment company’s integrated-safety archi-
focused on television, film and content to continuous innovation – enabling tecture is capable of implementing
news – appointed an international our customers to experience quantifia- machine, electrical and process safety,
panel of 13 judges and a third-party au- ble operational breakthroughs as they whilst its Common Industrial Protocol
ditor, HLB Atrede, to analyse and rank become Connected Enterprises.” Safety allows control and safety systems
70 nominations across 22 categories. Rockwell Automation was also named to coexist on the same network and
Acknowledged as the Best IoT Provider the Best Programmable Control share data − thereby minimising costs
for the second consecutive year, Rock- Systems Provider for the second time, for hardware, software and support.
well Automation demonstrated its lead- thanks to its Integrated Architecture At the same time, the system’s opera-
ership in helping companies across all System that features the Allen-Bradley® tional intelligence and diagnostics help
industries to capture the right data from CompactLogix™ programmable-auto- improve equipment productivity and
smart plant-floor devices, turn it into mation controller (PAC), ControlLogix® lifespan, with reduced downtime.
working data capital, and share it se- PAC, and MicroLogix™ programma- “Rockwell Automation has unrivalled
curely with executive teams around the ble-logic controller (PLC) families. credentials for building safety into its
world – connecting remote devices with These solutions have consistently set company culture, technology, and man-
people and processes for better decision the industry standard from the pio- ufacturing processes and procedures
making, enhanced overall productivity, neering PLC in 1970 to today’s scalable, – resulting in higher Overall Equipment
heightened workforce efficiency, faster multi-discipline and information-en- Effectiveness, less unscheduled down-
time-to-market, lower total operating abled PACs, giving users the ability to time, and significantly fewer injuries
costs, improved returns of investment standardise on a single-control platform than average performers. Moreover, to
and reduced enterprise risks. By inte- for any application. further emphasise our commitment to
grating the Internet of things (IoT) into “Rockwell Automation is proud to be safety, we created the annual Manufac-
the business ecosystem, enterprises are recognised as an innovative leader in turing Safety Excellence Award in 2013
converging operational technologies industrial automation in Asia. Our to celebrate the world’s safest manu-
on the plant floor and the corpora- programmable control systems – from facturing companies,” said John Bizjak,
tion’s IT infrastructure using a secure, low-cost, simple programming tools, to Country Manager, Singapore, Rockwell
standards-based Industrial Ethernet/IP midrange solutions, to those adopted Automation.§
network to become more competitive as for large-scale and demanding appli-
Connected Enterprises.

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