Case Study: Rockwell Automation achieves real-time industrial insight with Microsoft Corporation Azure IoT and Windows 10 IoT

Making industrial machines smarter with cloud-connected IoT solution

Rockwell Automation, a global industrial automation company, needed a better way to give manufacturing customers real-time operational insight across complex plant-floor systems. Its challenge was breaking down information silos and connecting diverse machines and software from multiple vendors while aligning with customers’ existing IT environments, using Microsoft technologies such as Windows 10 IoT Enterprise and Azure IoT solution accelerators.

Microsoft Corporation helped Rockwell Automation implement a cloud-connected IoT platform with a hybrid automation controller that embeds Windows 10 IoT Enterprise alongside its Logix 5000 controller engine and links to Azure for analytics. The solution eliminated the need for a separate standalone computer, reduced the time to make decisions from hours to milliseconds, and enabled faster access to advanced analytics, easier management, and scalable deployment across industries worldwide.

Rockwell Automation

Dan DeYoung

Market Development Director