With Factory Automation, industrial companies can build one common, converged, and rugged plant-to-business network. This way, you can:

• Connect factory automation and control systems to IT systems with standards-based IP-networking
• Improve operational efficiency and cut costs with highly secure remote access
• Speed response time to issues on the plant floor
• Mitigate risks by improving network uptime and equipment availability
• Protect critical manufacturing assets with industry-leading security features

These benefits will help you make more strategic business decisions backed by real-time data from the plant floor.

Cisco can help you realize these benefits through:

• Industry-leading enterprise networking solutions delivered across industrial platforms
• Scalable, highly secure, real-time performance predictability and remote access
• Full lifecycle of services to optimize network performance and simplify and automate operations
• Expertise based on Cisco and Rockwell Automation's Converged Plantwide Ethernet validated architecture
• Access to the Cisco partner ecosystem including Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, and Emerson