It’s Hump Day, readers. I hope everyone’s as well as can be this week.
Today, let’s revisit Rockwell Automation.
Over the past two years here on Industrial IoT News (and also on IoT Evolution World), we’ve covered a variety of Rockwell-centric stories:
Suffice to say, Rockwell Automation has proven itself to be a highly capable provider of smart IoT/IIoT manufacturing solutions, as well as a reliable partner to some of the biggest names in tech.
And regarding its involvement with NVIDIA, in particular, we’ve got another update to share (i.e. because that last bullet point regarding NVIDIA and Rockwell remains quite pertinent):
Last week, Rockwell Automation took its NVIDIA Omniverse integration a step forward; specifically, by integrating NVIDIA Omniverse APIs into Rockwell’s own Emulate3D digital twin software, which allow engineers to create, fine-tune and test various workflows and designs before they’re built (i.e. proactively ensuring a business’s productivity and profitability, in this vein). This will reportedly lead to “enhanced factory operations through both artificial intelligence and physics-based simulation technology.”
The long-story-short version of digital twins is simple — they make equipment development, control testing, and more significantly more accessible through simulation models and emulation.
According to Rockwell Automation, “As equipment is connected into lines, models scale and challenges arise from siloed expertise and integration issues between separately engineered components. A system-level perspective, including interoperability across machines, can solve these issues, but it requires collaboration for system-level testing. As lines scale, larger digital twins require more computational power, risking bottlenecks. Automation leaders need scalable solutions to achieve full factory-scale models, building on digital twin successes.”
So, Rockwell Automation’s Emulate3D software (using the latest NVIDIA Omniverse APIs) can create factory-scale dynamic digital twins.
"Our integration of Emulate3D with NVIDIA Omniverse marks a significant leap forward in bringing autonomous operations to life," said Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation. "By combining our deep industrial knowledge with NVIDIA's cutting-edge technology, we're helping our customers achieve new levels of efficiency, innovation, and collaboration in their manufacturing processes.” (i.e. even hybrid industrial applications involving packaged goods, food and beverages, life sciences, automotive, semiconductor manufacturing, etc.)
This integration — from which manufacturers will benefit from hyperscaled capabilities, flexible cloud-based deployment options, and vendor-agnostic connectivity — is currently planned to kick off in early 2025.
Read more about Rockwell Automation’s latest developments here.
Edited by
Greg Tavarez
