Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes our customers more productive and the world more sustainable. From stand-alone, industrial components to enterprise-wide integrated systems, our solutions have proven themselves across a wide range of industries and in some of the most demanding manufacturing environments.

Rockwell Automation’s integrated control and information architecture is capable of controlling the customer’s plant floor and seamlessly connecting with their manufacturing enterprise systems. We offer a comprehensive suite of manufacturing enterprise software solutions with the application knowledge and domain expertise necessary to successfully implement them on the plant floor.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company employs about 20,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.

Rockwell Automation’s operations management solutions represent the broadest and richest suite of capabilities in the industry, focused on driving operational transformation. One of the biggest obstacles facing most manufacturers on this journey is the large numbers of disparate, legacy systems scattered throughout the plant floor, many of which are custom, home-grown applications with very limited reporting capabilities.

Our objective is to embrace and extend these systems by providing a comprehensive, real time visualisation, reporting and analytics layer around these disparate plant floor systems. We are working closely with Microsoft to leverage our respective areas of expertise in connecting disparate plant floor systems, creating the appropriate context, and presenting all operations information consumers with the intelligence they need to make better decisions.

FactoryTalk VantagePoint, Rockwell Automation’s premier enterprise manufacturing intelligence solution is this powerful Web-based reporting and analytics solution that brings data together into a single role-based performance management and decision support system. When combined with Microsoft SharePoint Server and PerformancePoint Services, we dramatically accelerate our time to value and reduce the complexities in deploying and sustaining this powerful solution.