Session Catalog

Join two leaders in the Latin America pharmaceutical and biotech industries as they share their successes in digital transformation, operational excellence, and manufacturing innovation. Discover how Butantan Institute and Laboratorios Roemmers leveraged intelligent automation and MES, ERP integration technologies to improve efficiency, traceability, compliance, and production performance. Learn how these organizations reduced risk, accelerated execution, enabled paperless operations, and built scalable, data-driven manufacturing environments that support quality, regulatory readiness, and sustainable growth.

Each step of a life sciences company’s digital transformation requires that they leverage industrial data as the foundation for industrial AI. But what is industrial AI, and what kinds of best practices, technologies, tools, and solutions are available to help manufacturers progress in their AI journey. Join Becton Dickinson and ARC Advisory Group as they share how to successfully deploy and scale an industrial AI approach to be able to adopt the technology and navigate any technical and cultural challenges.

Hear from CESMII and Rockwell Automation as they are joined by a customer to explore how smart manufacturing is transforming industrial operations. Learn how Rockwell's Industrial DataOps approach—connecting control, Optix, and DataMosaix—aligns with CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Platform to deliver value across the ecosystem. Discover the benefits for end users, system integrators, OEMs, and EPCs through real-world customer experiences and outcomes.

GE Appliances and ATC Automation transitioned from traditional simulation to a collaborative Digital Twin strategy using Emulate3D. Starting with a refrigerator water filter assembly line, this session explores how Virtual Commissioning reduced on-site debugging and ensured a seamless OEM-to-end-user handoff. We will demonstrate how our partnership evolved into a multi-project workflow, proving that zero-day startup is achievable through shared technical models.

At Genentech, we have migrated away from our legacy MES system to FactoryTalk® PharmaSuite®. In this talk, we will share the context that provided the conditions for this change, and our experience on the factors that went into decision making, planning, implementation and change management during the migration. We will also present early indicators of adoption and success and lessons learned during the migration.

General Mills is tackling control system obsolescence and machine resiliency risks across aging manufacturing environments. With limited capital and competing priorities, they partnered with Rockwell Automation to drive a data driven approach using IBEs, Asset Inventory Manager, and Lifecycle Services. As an innovation partner for FactoryTalk® AssetIQ™, they are transforming risk management. Join this session to learn proven strategies to reduce risk and build more resilient operations.

As industrial facilities modernize aging analog and fieldbus systems, Ethernet-APL has emerged as a promising path to digital transformation. This presentation by South Platte Renew examines whether APL is ready for critical process control by evaluating device availability, interoperability, and integration challenges. Attendees will gain practical insight into APL’s benefits, risks, and readiness, helping to determine if now is the right time to include APL in their modernization strategy

Hear from Natura as they share how they revolutionized material handling with a centralized, robotics driven box management system powered by Rockwell Automation. With 700 PowerFlex drives, redundant ControlLogix, and high availability HMI, the operation gains efficiency and visibility. Using Emulate3D digital twins, Natura optimized performance and accelerated commissioning, building a scalable foundation for Digital Manufacturing.

Traditional vision systems often require specialized expertise and lengthy tuning cycles, delaying value and limiting scalability. This session explores what's new from FactoryTalk® Analytics™ VisionAI™ and how it is transforming factory floor outcomes. Rapid deployment of AI-driven inspection to existing camera systems, autonomous model training and insights that drive real outcomes results in days, not months. Through real-world ROI examples, attendees will see how manufacturers are achieving immediate yield improvements with minimal configuration, often in just a few clicks, while reducing false rejects and rework.

This session highlights the next wave of industrial trends helping companies turn efficiency, digitalization, and smarter resource use into measurable growth. Learn how leading manufacturers are converting environmental pressures into competitive advantage through improved performance, resilience, and profitability.

Built on breakthrough motor technology, the new Armor™ PowerFlex® 330 integrated drive motor delivers a more compact, lightweight and energy-efficient On-Machine™ solution for material handling applications. This session explores how its innovative motor design, simplified wiring, and integrated intelligence help reduce installation time and machine complexity. Attendees will also learn how it works together with Armor™ PowerFlex® 350 near-motor drives within a common system architecture to support flexible, scalable machine designs.

Introducing the LogixEdge™ controller — the newest member of the Logix platform designed to bring software‑defined automation to the edge while preserving the strengths that have made Logix a long‑standing, trusted foundation. LogixEdge™ extends the innovation and longevity of the Logix ecosystem into a more flexible, extensible, and IT‑friendly form, applying familiar tools, workflows, and execution models in a software‑centric environment. This session explores how Logix is evolving to solve emerging customer challenges, how LogixEdge™ simplifies architectures while expanding what's possible, and how this approach supports the broader shift from automation to autonomous operations by enabling smarter coordination of data, control, and compute across modern industrial systems.

When your process stops unexpectedly, the pressure is on to identify a cause, resolve the issue and bring your equipment back online quickly. Unplanned downtime can result in significant expenses to your company. In this session, learn about PowerFlex® drives' instrumental role in reducing downtime and how technologies from Rockwell Automation, including AI and predictive maintenance, can help you reduce production risk and increase machine availability.

You need to move a product from A to B…how? In this session we'll deep dive into what makes ICT or traditional conveyance the best fit for an application. We'll look at in machine and between machine, evaluating what factors will point you to one solution or another across applications and industries. We'll go through some examples and look at what factors make it a good fit and discuss success stories where ICT was a good fit. If you are curious if ICT would be a good fit for your application, now is your chance to bring your questions and ask the experts.

If you're responsible for driving manufacturing process improvements, your role is essential in turning goals into results. Many manufacturers turn to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to transform fragmented automation into coordinated operations, but knowing where to start is critical. In this session, learn how to align AMRs with your operational goals, identify and prioritize high-impact workflows, and build a scalable business case that supports long-term success.

Warehouse automation often underdelivers because traditional change approaches aren't designed for the warehouse environment. In this session, Fortna and Kalypso show why a clear transformation strategy and warehouse‑specific organizational change management are critical to realizing ROI, reducing risk and accelerating time to value. We'll deep dive into strategy and OCM while connecting digital twin, industrial AI and cybersecurity into a unified transformation journey.

Rolling out a global MES across multiple sites presents real challenges — especially in regulated manufacturing environments. This session shares real-world lessons from Thermo Fisher Scientific on implementing a standardized MES while balancing local needs, validation and governance. Learn how strong governance models, standardized templates and streamlined validation approaches reduce deployment risk, support compliance and enable scalable, sustainable global MES programs.

Learn how FedEx is deploying an energy management solution across hundreds of sites, with Rockwell Automation supporting strategy and execution. This session explores the end-to-end architecture, energy management strategy with FactoryTalk® Energy Manager, wireless technology and a delivery model enabling rapid deployment at scale.

Ford faced delays and inefficiencies from manual dimensional analysis, limited real-time visibility, disconnected measurement systems and reliance on scarce expert resources. This session shows how Dimensional Artificial Intelligence helps connect data sources, detect fit issues earlier, reduce delayed response across shifts and give engineers faster insight into root causes and corrective actions to improve quality, accountability and production performance.