Rockwell Automation Reviews Business Activities and Elects Board Members at Annual Shareowners Meeting

Business Wire, Feb 1, 2006

MILWAUKEE -- Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) Chairman and CEO Keith D. Nosbusch reviewed the company's fiscal year 2005 business activities and highlighted first-quarter results at the company's annual shareowners meeting. The company also reaffirmed the range of its earnings expectations for fiscal 2006, which was detailed in its first-quarter earnings release.

At the meeting, shareowners re-elected Betty C. Alewine, Verne G. Istock and David B. Speer to the board of directors with terms expiring in 2009.

A copy of the presentation from the meeting is available for review at: www.rockwellautomation.com.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE:ROK), is a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control and information systems and services that help manufacturers achieve a competitive advantage in their businesses. The company brings together leading brands in industrial automation, including Allen-Bradley controls and services, Dodge mechanical power transmission products, Reliance Electric motors and drives, and Rockwell Software factory management software. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., the company employs about 21,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.