Sustainable Customers

For more than 120 years, Rockwell has improved the efficiency of industrial processes. Today, we’re helping our customers to be more resilient, agile, and sustainable across the many diverse industries we serve.

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Our 3 Areas of Concentration

We meet our customers where they are on their ESG journey. Whether they’re just starting or leading the way, we help them translate insights into impacts across energy, water, and waste. Our technologies provide data transparency across value chains and enable our partners to scale innovative and often industry-first sustainable solutions.

ENERGY

Contemporary industrial energy management software solutions that put energy data in context to production data, to reduce energy use across the value chain

WATER

Smart water solutions leverage modern software and analytics to improve operations visibility, system reliability, and worker productivity while supporting security needs and meeting regulatory obligations

ARNHEM, NETHERLANDS - MAR 15, 2011: Pressed recycled plastic bottles in bales at an undisclosed recycling facility.

WASTE

Enabling the circular economy for managing automation assets. Focus on developing solutions to automate developing industry specific processes

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Our Customer Sustainability Strategy

Enable our customers to achieve their own sustainability goals, making a positive impact on the world. Everything we do for our customers is about increasing efficiency, reducing energy usage, improving worker safety, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

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EXPANDING INSIGHTS FOR EXISTING OPERATIONS

Converting data into actionable insights for sustainability and productivity around emissions, energy, water, and waste

EXPANDING IMPACT ACROSS VALUE CHAINS

Scaling impact and visibility across your value chain, product lifecycle, and ecosystems

EXPANDING INNOVATIONS FOR DECARBONIZATION AND CIRCULARITY

Innovating with our partners and scaling new climate tech production to enable a low carbon, circular future

Worker Safety

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Optimizing safety and productivity

We help customers invest in the safety of their workforce with smart safety solutions. As manufacturers continue to be challenged by new industrial paradigms and a shrinking workforce, we’re harnessing the power of real-time, integrated safety and plant floor data and seamless connectivity to help our customers turn worker safety into a competitive advantage.

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Cybersecurity

Modern industrial cybersecurity that keeps pace with industry innovation

At Rockwell, our vision is to ensure that our customers and our own operations are safe and secure, end to end, so all can continue to innovate and operate with confidence. We help our customers bring OT and IT together in every respect, including protection from new and emerging cybersecurity threats. Our industrial cybersecurity offerings help secure infrastructure, help protect assets, and maintain network availability.

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Information needs to be used in the right way, so it can take manufacturing to new levels and enable us to co-innovate and invent the future with our customers.”

- Cyril Perducat, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

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Life Sciences

Biomanufacturing: Advancing the promise of personalized medicine

Customer: Cytiva and Testa Center

Opportunity: Help the biopharmaceutical industry transition beyond mass-produced, blockbuster medical treatments and move into a new era of personalized medicine where treatments can be designed specifically for the individual patient

Outcome: An efficient, flexible, and scalable platform for biopharmaceutical companies, and explores digital solutions that apply the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), AR, and other advanced technologies for connectivity across biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes

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Energy Transition

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Reducing logistics emissions and costs: Helping Michelin design and manage for sustainability

Customer: Michelin and Giordano & C

Opportunity: Optimize load handling and increase productivity efficiency for travel between production and logistics plants

Outcome: A fleet of six truck-sized autonomously guided vehicles (AGVs) that operate nonstop in outdoor conditions over long distances. The rechargeable batteries power electric motors in the AGVs, enabling Michelin to save energy and achieve zero emissions as it moves new tires to distribution. Michelin also has real-time, global insight into the stock materials and production with using Rockwell’s technology partner ProSoft Technology.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Meet Sustainability Goals

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Eastern Municipal Water District pilots artificial intelligence-enabled control and machine learning to help save energy, reduce costs, and improve quality

Customer: The Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD)

Opportunity: Optimize aeration control and basin performance. Aeration is one of the most energy-intensive parts of waste-water treatment, and EMWD plants spend nearly half of their electric bills on dissolved oxygen used to biodegrade waste.

Outcome: Implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) application that learns the current state of aeration operations and with minimal staff intervention, optimally adjusts the system’s response as conditions change. Results include:

Reduced airflow to the aeration basin by as much as 31%
Will realize estimated savings of 2,330 kWh of electricity per day and more than $100k per year
Improved process control and effluent quality
Reduced the need for disinfectant and staff interventions to maintain aeration

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Helping Emerging Industries to Scale

REE Box Van Application Prototype 1 (BVAP1) at MIRA

We partnered with Expert Technologies to provide automation and information solutions to Israeli-based REE Automotive, a manufacturer of rolling chassis for commercial electronic vehicles (EVs), to support its build of a highly automated assembly plant in the UK

Customer: Expert Technologies and REE Automotive (a manufacturer of rolling chassis for commercial EVs)

Opportunity: Support the build of a highly automated assembly plant in the UK to increase their current capacity of 10,000 vehicles this year

Outcome: By implementing the Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES), REE’s North American Integration Center is now expected to double global capacity to 20,000 vechicle sets in 2023

Enabling the Circular Economy

We help customers participate in the circular economy with technologies that support and scale advanced process capabilities and infrastructure for recycling and remanufacturing.

In 2022, we collaborated with various customers to transition traditional, linear production and resource consumption patterns into a continuous-use loop that maintains or increases productivity and sustainability.

Reducing E-Waste with a “Fix-it-First” Strategy

Sustainability Calculator

Rockwell’s interactive calculator linked to repair and remanufacturing services quantifies energy, water, waste, and carbon emissions reduced by repairing automation assets instead of replacing them.

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Lifecycle IQ Services

As the world’s largest automation repair services provider, we help customers extend the life of their assets and reduce e-waste, which contains toxic additives. This process returns Allen-Bradley® products to like-new condition through inspection, revisions and upgrades, and functional load testing that confirms operability and quality. In 14 repair centers and eight exchange hubs globally, we also repair products made by 7,000 other manufacturers so our customers can keep more of their assets in use rather than discarding damaged, worn-out, or non-efficient parts.

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