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A Unified Control Platform is a Smart Solution

Combining process and power control onto a single platform helps accelerate your productivity, savings and return on investment
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Industrial Automation & Control
    • Overview
    • Design & Configuration Software
    • Design & Configuration Software
    • Micro Control
    • Micro Control
  • Integrated Architecture
    • Overview
    • Unified Industrial Control Systems
    • Unified Industrial Control Systems
    • Industrial Robot Automation
    • Industrial Robot Automation
    • Scalable Computing
    • Scalable Computing
    • Smart Devices
    • Smart Devices
    • Corrosive Gas
    • Corrosive Gas
    • Smart VFD Technology
    • Smart VFD Technology

Finally. Real-time Process, Power and Motor Control Data in One Place

Everyone knows that you can’t fix a problem you can’t see. With a unified industrial control system, you can get real-time process and power control data at your fingertips on one platform. And visibility to real-time production and energy insights in one place helps make your plant more efficient, productive and profitable.

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Accelerate Your Productivity & Savings.

A Unified Control System Helps:

  • Increase yield & boost asset performance
  • Reduce energy & maintenance costs
  • Simplify operating systems
  • Lower capital & operational costs

Increase Your Return on Investment with a Connected System

Traditionally, plants are designed with independent control systems – separating the management of process control from power distribution and motor control.

However, this separation increases complexity, risk and costs. It requires plant engineers to design and maintain multiple systems, inter-system connections and interfaces. Plus, it’s more difficult to see a complete view of your operations.

We can help. Our industrial control system offers an integrated architecture that helps streamline design and deliver real capital and operational savings. A unified system helps:

  • Reduce material costs, design time and complexity with networked motor control
  • Speed installation and commissioning with Premier Integration
  • Deliver a simpler user experience for operators, engineers and maintenance
  • Reduce downtime and maintenance costs by improving operating system visibility and response time
  • Boost productivity and energy savings using predictive analytics
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A Unified Control System Helps Reduce Project Risk, Costs and Time to Market

Our unified platform is designed for greenfield projects and existing plant operations alike. By connecting your enterprise with data-fueled process and power insights, we help you boost productivity and so much more. In one turnkey contract, we can help:

  • Deliver a PlantPAx® distributed control system with power distribution and smart motor control devices on a single Ethernet-connected architecture
  • Package power distribution and motor control into pre-built eHouses that accelerate installation
  • Reduce engineering time and risk with pre-built faceplates and pre-engineered and tested code blocks
  • Reduce commissioning and operational costs, from engineering and hardware to staffing, energy and maintenance
  • Deliver unified support from the global industrial automation leader
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A Unified Architecture Streamlines Design

Go to market faster. Replace multiple systems with a single preconfigured platform where process control, power distribution and motor control visualization are combined into one HMI.

Manage your system. Use one network, visualization, archiving and reporting platform. Our managed content libraries help prevent integration issues, outdated technology and compliance risks.

Monitor process and power 24-7. Data helps you reduce downtime. Monitor and troubleshoot process, motor control and energy use with actionable diagnostic information and predictive maintenance indicators. Real-time data displays the condition of your networked devices from any location. Understand and manage energy consumption.

Our connected system combines process, power and motor control on a single platform. This helps manufacturers simplify design, testing and installation plus, reduce hardware, downtime, maintenance and energy costs
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Scalable and Intuitive Industrial Control System Tools

System designers and manufacturers benefit from our connected strategies and tools.

During planning, Integrated Architecture Builder helps layout and validate the control system and provide pricing. When programming, you’ll reduce risk and time to value with our controller instruction and universal HMI faceplate code libraries.

  • Free managed content libraries and upgrades help prevent integration issues
  • Leverage unified information, diagnostics and predictive indicators from our intelligent device portfolio, including motor control, networking, I/O and sensor hardware
  • Standardized architecture and faceplates are easy to implement, use, maintain and upgrade
  • Reduce commissioning time, downtime and knowledge gaps

One Infrastructure. Complete Operating System Visibility

Operators and engineers improve situational awareness by using one HMI with common faceplates - enabling faster, more effective decision making

Operator workstations are easy to understand by process and operations personnel


Power engineers see the same plant equipment in a single line diagram view

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Information at your fingertips

"From my desktop, I can see hundreds of motors, control points, temperatures - everything that's happening and whatever shouldn't be happening." -Director of Engineering

The Technology Powering our Platform…

Our PlantPAx® distributed control system uses an automation platform to integrate critical areas of your plant. It connects process, discrete, power, information and safety control into one plant-wide infrastructure. It offers:

  • Scalable and modular architecture
    Easy integration without replicating data. Faster time to market. Scalable system capabilities such as HMI, batch management and data collection grow with your production.
  • Open, information-enabled network
    Based on open communication standards, leveraging EtherNet/IP as its backbone. Real-time information is available throughout your enterprise.
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Smart Motor Control Powers Your Plant

Rockwell Automation is North America's leading supplier of integrated factory automation solutions. Integrating equipment, data and processes across your plant is your gateway to smart manufacturing.

Our smart motor control devices are some of the most critical and data-rich devices on the plant floor. By connecting them to the same industrial network as your process control system, it’s easy to use the data to improve operations, maintenance and energy use. Electrical and motor control are simply an extension of the process automation system.

Meeting strict NEMA and IEC standards, our low- and medium-voltage motor control products are designed for demanding industrial applications. The devices natively integrate into the Logix control system. This premier integration consolidates design, integration and configuration into one, easy-to-use software environment, reducing time and costs. Devices include:

  • PowerFlex® variable frequency drives (VFDs)
  • Allen-Bradley® motor control devices
  • Logix programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
  • Network security & infrastructure

A Unified Platform Simplifies Everything

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Replace independent eSCADA system with a unified reporting platform

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Unmodified Ethernet seamlessly connects and communicates all data

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Get real-time access to process & motor control device intelligence

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MCC Technology that Increases Productivity and Uptime

When your industrial control system includes IntelliCENTER® technology, you can access, monitor and diagnose your motor control centers (MCCs) and smart devices 24-7 from almost anywhere. And that’s just a start. It also helps:

Increase productivity. Reduce your startup time. The motor control centers are preconfigured and validated before delivery.

  • Service connections, IP addresses, subnet masks, custom parameter settings for PowerFlex VFDs and E300™ electronic overload relay and advanced port settings are preset
  • Predefined MCC device wiring and parameters deliver plug-and-play integration with the PlantPAx distributed control system
  • We use secure EtherNet/IP network protocol and 600V cables for fast integration

Increase uptime. Allen-Bradley devices inside our motor control centers integrate seamlessly into a Logix-based PlantPAx® distributed control system.

  • Real-time system monitoring and access to maintenance data help you identify, diagnose or reset device faults, and safely deploy resources
  • Motor control centers configured with PowerFlex 755T-series and 6000T VFDs offer predictive maintenance capabilities, monitoring the health of drive components
  • FactoryTalk® Analytics™ GuardianAI™ software helps predict equipment failures with continuous condition-based monitoring of critical plant assets including pumps, fans and blowers
  • The managed content library in the IntelliCENTER tool offers process and power equipment data - reducing repair time
  • CIP Security-enabled PowerFlex drives help improve the cybersecurity of your plant

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Integrate Smart Devices with Intelligent Packaged Power

Traditional hard-wired methods can complicate smart device integration. A better way is to connect your process and power control system with a single Ethernet cable.

Expedite Installation and Integration with a Preconfigured eHouse

Another way we can streamline your design and installation is by delivering your motor control devices and electrical distribution system in a prefabricated eHouse structure.

This cost-saving solution delivers preconfigured, networked and tested equipment to your site in a single, self-contained and weatherproof container.

The components can include low- or medium-voltage VFDs, switchgear and/or motor control centers, HVAC systems, fire and gas systems, and battery systems. And we can integrate all your components, regardless of manufacturer. An eHouse provides easy integration between process and electrical systems and gives plant personnel easy access to critical substation information.

Planning to expand your plant capacity?

Long before you build your factory, talk with us and our proven partner ecosystem. Our team can submit a comprehensive project bid to you.

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Plant Expansion Project? Get Support from the Industry Leader

Manufacturers get countless advantages from a unified system. You can connect process, power and motor control on one platform. Plus, get real-time operational data, predictive analytics, AI tools, energy management and more... making your plant more efficient and profitable.

  • Our unified solution helps deliver significant savings on both total install costs and your total cost of ownership for the lifetime of the system
  • You can get support from Rockwell Automation consultants at every necessary stage. Our teams have decades of experience designing, commissioning and supporting industrial solutions
  • Simplify your plant production complexity and reduce project risk by engaging with our team and PartnerNetwork that works together regularly
  • We work seamlessly with engineering, procurement and construction teams, and system integrators

Want to get started? Let us know how we can help your automation journey.

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