Technology: more than a pretty dashboard Where would you rather have your employees focus their time: on collecting and analyzing billions of data points, or on efficiently getting product to market? The latter, we bet. With the right tools, everyone in your plant – not just IT wizards – can get the right information, in the right context. “Decisions at Your Fingertips,” in the April 6 issue of The Journal from Rockwell Automation and Our Partners, explains how to turn data into information for better decision-making, with real-time information architecture and simplified reporting. Identify and implement the best automation and information mix for your business, and begin producing meaningful, pre-configured reports almost immediately, so time-to-value is measured in hours, not days or weeks. Manage cost, quality, production, assets and resources more effectively with FactoryTalk® Historian Machine Edition, with a robust and fast mechanism for collecting data from plant floor equipment. The new Historian module captures and stores process data at high speed and full resolution. Configure it as a stand alone module or as part of a tiered solution rolling up data to a FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition data store. Need help accessing real-time process and production data? These step-by-step videos provide a quick overview of different elements of using FactoryTalk Historian ME.

Product, Service and Solution News

Sustainable Production

• Are you a top performer, optimizing energy management and sustainable production to increase profits? Use the Aberdeen Group Sustainable Production Benchmarking Tool to find out. Get a personalized scorecard and free copy of the Aberdeen Group report describing how top performers achieve success.

• OEMs: Apply sustainable production to lower total cost to design, develop and deliver machines. The new brochure, Partnering for Your Success: Improving Machine Builder Performance with Innovative Solutions, includes inventive ways to help your customers improve time to market.
  
  

Essential Components

• With three times the sensing range of standard sensors, WorldProx™ long range inductive sensors can be mounted farther from the target, increasing permissible machine tolerances, minimizing the risk of mechanical damage, and overcoming the challenges of maintaining consistent sensing over varying temperatures.
  

Services & Support

Learn at your own pace with new Self-Study Training Kit for Modular Programming. This computer-based training program fits your schedule with instructor-led options and technical documents available. Find other training designed to fit your needs and agenda.

Events

• RSTechED 2010: Los Angeles, California, June 6-11, 2010, JW Marriott. Get smarter about your automation investments – at RSTechED, learn best practices and new approaches that will create the architecture for continuous optimization, competitive differentiation and sustainable production.
  
  
• The daily Session Schedule details more than 350 session occurrences, including technical presentations, hands-on labs and customer application stories from Nestle, Kraft, DuPont, Procter & Gamble and others. Visit www.RSTechED and start your game plan for success.
  
  
• Registration open! Register by April 27 and receive the early registration rate of US$1099.


• Rockwell Automation on the Move brings technology to you. Get a hands-on experience with the latest products and solutions to address your automation challenges. View the North American schedule to find a location near you.
  
  
• Solutions for your toughest challenges: International Life Sciences Symposium, June 16-17, Montpellier, France. Experts in the Life Sciences industry will share solutions to increased competition, drug counterfeiting, pandemics, globalization, and more. Find out how to improve operational efficiencies through integrated automation and information solutions. Register.