I think many business managers are unaware of the advantages of connecting the factory to the business network. The plant floor machinery is not just controlling a process, but already has so much great data available such as production run data, runtime, downtime, waste/rejects, energy use, as performance indicators available for management to improve plant performance. Couple the ability to link the MES/MRP to understand the time to run and schedules, to configure machines for the next product, gain advice on machine availability, it just makes sense to connect the plant floor to the business system. I think real life examples of finding un-managed, non secure, badly configured poses the greatest risk to managers trying to integrate the two worlds of plant floor and business network and creating more issues for their already busy day and potential risk. It is great to see Cisco embracing the issues and packaging "Accelerator bundles"and "Jasper tool"and engaging factory floor experienced integration partners that understand the issues to truly implement the Connected Factory, information enabled, intelligent machines and make it easier for tomorrows business manager.