The two companies announceda new five-year partnership expansion to “develop integrated, market-ready solutions that help industrial customers improve digital agility through cloud technology. By combining each company’s expertise in the industrial and IT markets, teams can work together more seamlessly, enabling industrial organizations to save on infrastructure costs, speed time-to-value, and increase productivity.”
More specifically, Microsoft and Rockwell are focusing on edge-to-cloud-based systems to connect information between a manufacturer’s development, operations, and maintenance teams through a “singular, trusted data environment.” In their announcement of this new partnership, the companies state that customers using their applications will be able to “digitally prototype, configure, and collaborate without investing in physical equipment. This unified information environment enables IT and OT (operations technology) teams to securely access and share data models across the organization and with their ecosystem of partners as well.”
As part of this announcement, Rockwell and Microsoft noted that they have co-developed more than 20 use cases using their combined technologies across the food and beverage, household and personal care, and life sciences industries.
