Case Study: Rockwell Automation achieves real-time operational insight in milliseconds with Microsoft Azure

Making industrial machines smarter with cloud-connected IoT solution

Rockwell Automation, a global leader in industrial automation serving customers across more than 80 countries, needed to give manufacturers holistic, real-time visibility into operations despite heterogeneous equipment and information silos. Customers wanted plant-floor systems that matched corporate IT security and data-sharing practices, but legacy setups required manual data collection and slow decision cycles.

Rockwell embedded Windows 10 IoT Enterprise alongside its Logix 5000 controller and connected on‑premises systems to Azure IoT solution accelerators, removing separate edge PCs and enabling seamless edge-to-cloud deployments. The platform delivers operational insight in milliseconds instead of hours, reduces the IT learning curve for plant teams, and lets customers scale, reuse applications, and adopt analytics or machine learning on their own timeline—accelerating time-to-market and enabling instant, actionable analytics across diverse manufacturing environments.

Rockwell Automation

Keith Staninger

Global Business Director