Manufacturing Industry
Emerging trends in plant operations management.
Manufacturing Business Technology, December, 2006
By Kevin Parker, Editorial Director Congratulated at Rockwell Automation Fair on a just-inked agreement to put OSIsoft's PI System into Rockwell's FactoryTalk suite, OSIsoft founder and CEO Pat Kennedy's immediate, characteristically gruff response was to say, "Now we have to make it work." With PI System, OSIsoft made the market for data historians, and Rockwell--especially since ex-GEer Kevin Roach's arrival as VP for Rockwell Software--has taken real steps to develop, acquire, and extend a plant IT infrastructure for production and performance management.
So no lack of will really is to be expected. Rockwell, with revenues of $5.5 billion, also has successfully melded an automation vendor's profile with that of a software provider. It...
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