Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s leading companies in industrial automation, informatization and digital transformation, today announced the launch of FactoryTalk® Design Hub™. As industrial companies transform their automated design capabilities with simpler, more efficient ways to work in the cloud, teams, regardless of location, size, or skill set, can improve their collaboration, lifecycle management, and on-demand access to cloud-based software to work better. All of these help improve design efficiency, speed up the time to market, and reduce the development and maintenance costs of the system.

“In this new era where work is no longer limited by time and place, having centralized, on-demand design tools is essential for companies to scale production and easily adapt to changing customer needs,” “With FactoryTalk Design Hub, manufacturing engineers can access all of Rockwell Automation’s tools and capabilities on a centralized node to effectively design and collaborate across their teams and the entire enterprise,” said Brian Shepherd, senior vice president of Software and control systems at Rockwell Automation. ”

FactoryTalk Design Hub helps industrial organizations optimize the development and deployment of automation projects while adhering to the latest security standards and information technology (IT) best practices. FactoryTalk Design Hub allows teams to access design content on demand through any Web browser, and the software is always up to date, with the flexibility to scale users and compute power to meet project workload demands.

“The digital transformation of automated design capabilities requires both leveraging cloud computing to maximize the efficiency of control system developers and having all software tools connected to each other via digital lines to maximize collaboration, scalability, and productivity.” “Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Design Hub enables seamless connectivity between the digital threads of its design, visualization, digital twins, storage and remote access software tools,” said Craig Resnick, vice president, ARC Advisory Group. Give control system developers instant, on-demand access to all automated design content, no matter where they are located, helping their organizations accelerate initiatives from digital transformation to IT/OT convergence.”

Businesses are looking for better ways to solve the most pressing problems. Traditional software design methods are limited in terms of collaboration, scalability and efficiency. Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Design Hub can effectively address these three issues and meet the design needs of a variety of automated workflows.

Doug Hoffer, Senior Automation Engineer at Samuel Engineering, said: “I am delighted to see Rockwell Automation commit significant resources to this type of development, benefiting control system developers around the world. This could be an important way to link cloud functionality and analytics to the control system development process.”

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FactoryTalk Design Hub includes five core solutions:

FactoryTalk Design Studio
FactoryTalk® Design Studio™ is a new cloud-native software product built from scratch to improve system design efficiency. Users can access the product anytime, anywhere through a Web browser without having to download or install any applications and without any software maintenance burden. FactoryTalk Design Studio starts with controller design and dramatically reduces development time by implementing modern software development practices and integrated version control systems. Teams can use automated tools to share and merge changes, collaborate easily like never before, and support multiple controllers in a single project to dynamically scale projects. FactoryTalk Design Studio is about to change the way industrial automation systems are built.

FactoryTalk Optix Software
FactoryTalk® Optix™ is a new addition to Rockwell’s automation visualization portfolio. FactoryTalk Optix, described as “forward-thinking visualization,” is the first upcoming cloud-enabled HMI product within FactoryTalk Design Hub. With FactoryTalk Optix Studio, users can design, test, and deploy applications directly from a Web browser. Optional cloud-based connectivity enables a new collaboration process, allowing users to make changes anytime, anywhere. FactoryTalk Optix aims to improve efficiency, optimize processes and deliverables with a scalable, modern platform.

FactoryTalk Twin Studio
FactoryTalk® Twin Studio™ is an end-to-end, automated design solution that enables design, programming, simulation, simulation, and virtual commissioning in the same cloud environment. The cloud-hosted ecosystem is powered by Rockwell Automation’s most advanced software products and can be accessed anytime, anywhere via a Web browser. FactoryTalk Twin Studio enables users to seamlessly switch between Rockwell Automation’s design solutions and collaborate in real time with team members to work faster and better on their next project.