Is your plant manager struggling to dig through and exploit data produced by your factory floor?
It’s time to get your factory “connected”.
As an industry leader in network infrastructure, Cisco Industrial Solutions is a safe investment for manufacturers. This could be the first step in your digital transformation or perhaps an addendum to an already “smart factory”.
Utilizing Cisco networking solutions in your factory will accelerate and improve your production.
What is a Cisco Connected Factory?
Cisco has built a set of network infrastructure and software solutions to meet the unique needs of manufacturing companies. These connected factory solutions have been available from Cisco since 2007 and are continuously improved upon.
By connecting your industrial systems with business IT systems, you’ll be able to streamline predictive maintenance, real-time supply chain and increase the overall quality and speed of your manufactured products.
Better Factory Security
A ‘Connected Factory’ isn’t just about mobility and automation, although these are crown highlights of Cisco’s industrial solutions. A considerable benefit is better security for manufacturers.
From DMZ firewalls that protect the entire factory to plant network security that safeguards from within your factory. Many factories have convenience ports or other unsecured ports that need protection.
Increased Speed & Quality
Having a connected factory will boost output by reducing the time needed to install new machines. By flattening and simplifying factory networks, you will reduce costs and create a solid foundation for future factory infrastructure needs.
According to Cisco, your factory will benefit from:
- 10-50% increase in employee productivity,
- 30-50% reduction in downtime,
- 10-15% lower networking costs,
- 95% lower cabling costs for machines, and
- An overall increase in agility!
From wireless to end-to-end security, the factory is connected to the enterprise and always secure.
Why Cisco?
The obvious reason is that Cisco is a best-in-class product, well-known and highly regarded as the #1 producer of network infrastructure. This makes your investment safe & more future proof with longer product life cycles.
Besides being a sustainable solution that offers continuity, Cisco has integrated with Rockwell to deliver the best of both OT and IT.
Full IoT Potential
The integration between OT and IT delivers the best in a single product line of solutions. By bridging the gap between OT and IT you will effectively achieve the potential of the industrial IoT.
Go Wireless
As part of the ‘Cisco Connected Factory Solutions,’ you’ll be able to quickly implement Connected Factory Wireless. By connecting your machines, databases, and people efficiently, your factory will achieve maximum quality and speed.
If you aren’t ready to ditch all of your legacy, hard-wired systems, that’s okay! We can find the areas where your factory floor will benefit the most from wireless solutions and start in a just few targeted areas. We’ll develop a long-term strategy to make your facility as fully wireless as possible, within a comfortable time-frame for your team.
Emerge Knows Cisco
Cisco maintains a vast support network around the world so you won’t have to worry about implementing your factory solutions independently.
Cisco’s strategy is to leverage three key attributes:
- Simplicity
- Security
- Better intelligence
At Emerge IT, we are Cisco pros! Our team is highly certified and trained to help you choose & implement your Cisco solutions easily (without downtime). Between your partnership with Emerge and the award-winning support offered by Cisco, rest assured you’ll have all the help you need with launching your ‘Cisco Connected Factory’.
Whether you’re most excited about the end-to-end visibility, advanced analytics, or wireless solutions -- make the most of the IoT era in your production line.
Let’s get your factory fully connected!