Manufacturing Industry
Rockwell strengthens links with IBM WebSphere.(PLANT IT INFRASTRUCTURES)
Manufacturing Business Technology, August, 2005
Leveraging several years of working with IBM in serving the automotive and life sciences industries, Rockwell Automation--a global provider of industrial automation, power, control, and information solutions--recently announced a new relationship that would integrate its plantwide manufacturing execution system around IBM's WebSphere MQ Series messaging backbone.
Rockwell's supervisory and human-machine interface solutions have been closely associated with Windows technology. However, its relationship with IBM at the plant application level, such as scheduling, has been well established for more than three years, according to Beth Parkinson, a product manager with Rockwell. "Our customers wanted a single solution from the plant floor to business...
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