Manufacturing
Don’t make this mistake with vendor contracts
This is a continuation of this blog on remote access. Has your organization signed up for remote management of critical infrastructure without your knowledge of the details? Many customers I work with were not aware of the contractual obligations they agreed to regarding remote access. Many customer…
Vendors as Attack Vectors – The Risk You Take with Partner Services
About the Author: Mr. Albach is the Sr. Product Line Manager of IoT Security and joined Cisco in 2010 when he defined and delivered three network security solutions with the most recent – Cisco’s first Industrial Security Appliance. Did you know you can be contractually obligated to let people…
Making the Factory of the Future a Reality with FANUC
A jam-packed media briefing room in Tokyo was the site of a big announcement this week. FANUC, the world’s leading maker of industrial robots, announced a collaborative effort with Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Preferred Networks (PFN) to jointly develop and deploy the FANUC Intelligent Edge Link…
Digitizing Your Factory Gets Easier for PROFINET Customers
We’re excited to be at Hannover Messe this week and even more excited to announce that our network architecture now supports the PROFINET standard. This is a big step on our journey towards the Industrie 4.0 Initiative, and in helping our manufacturing customers achieve the business benefits of full…
How to Use IoT to Improve Plant Profitability
About the Author: Scot recently joined Cisco and previously worked for Rockwell Automation for over 11 years as the Regional Marketing Leader for their Western US Architecture and Software business (Controllers, I/O, HMI, Networks, and Software). It is well accepted that there is great potential in…
Closing the OT & IT Knowledge Gap in Manufacturing: Recap of the Recent #CiscoChat
About the Author: Paul Brooks is a Business Development Manager at Rockwell Automation and is the lead for the Industrial IP Advantage, a coalition of like-minded companies driving community, thought leadership, and promotion of standard, unmodified Ethernet and Internet Protocol. We’ve all seen th…
What You Missed at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit
I was fortunate to attend and present at the N.American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) last week. It was an excellent chance to listen and learn from industry leading manufacturing executives around their best practices for lean/six-sigma, attracting and training the next generation workfo…
1 Easy Method to Cut Costs Out of Your Business
About the Author: Gradey Caldwell has been exclusively focused on driving process and costs improvements in the world’s largest manufacturers for over 30 years. For years I’ve seen manufacturing executives search for innovative ways to lower costs and drive more profits. In my travels, I’ve finally…
Making Manufacturing Sustainable – Starting with Our Supply Chain
With Earth day right around the corner, I thought this would be a good time to discuss Cisco’s role in sustainability. We are proud to share that we have been awarded the 2016 Climate Leadership Award from the EPA for our work making our supply chain more sustainable. At Cisco we’re not only energy…