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Creating the Future of Industrial Operations

Enabling High-Quality Production at Scale, Optimizing Scarce Resources

As the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, our vision is to create the future of industrial operations.

For more than 120 years, Rockwell has improved the efficiency of industrial processes, which includes making the most of scarce resources. Today, our technology and expertise help manufacturers in diverse industries address the complex challenge of making high-quality products at scale while:

Optimizing energy, water, and waste to maximize operational efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and support long‑term sustainability goals.
Improving industrial safety by enhancing processes, technologies, and training to protect employees and ensure safer, more reliable operations.
Meeting cybersecurity standards through governance, advanced protection measures, and continuous monitoring to safeguard data and systems.

We deliver the most valued solutions that combine technology and industry expertise.

As a result, we make our customers more resilient, agile, and sustainable, creating more ways to win.

Our Triple A Framework: Your Path to Exceptional Outcomes

A Dynamic Maturity Model that Meets Customers Wherever They Are

Our Triple A framework to customer sustainability is a circular, dynamic maturity model that mirrors our customers’ sustainability and productivity journey and key milestones. Every phase is connected by data and the digital thread.

Through this framework, we meet our customers wherever they are. Whether they’re just starting out or leading the way, we help them Assess, Advance, and Accelerate their sustainability efforts and goals with a digital, data driven approach and with a set of integrated and tailored sustainability solutions.

In a reiterative model of continuous improvement, we help customers turn data into insights, insights into strengths and strengths into competitive advantages.

Combining Digital and Sustainability Transformation to Boost Results

Sustainability is a connected effort. At the center of the Triple A framework is The Connected Enterprise®, a core of our strategy where plant-level and enterprise networks converge seamlessly to connect people, processes, and technologies across industrial operations.

Through this digital, data driven approach we help our customers transform and combine their digital and sustainability journeys early on, boosting results.

Throughout this model, we co-innovate with an ecosystem of customers and partners around a low-carbon, circular future. The Triple A approach transverses all Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) domains.

Triple A Framework
Digital, Data-Driven Sustainability and Productivity

Rockwell Automation Triple A Framework to Sustainability - A circular, dynamic model of continuous improvement, enabling sustainable manufacturing across each phase of the sustainability journey and each ESG domain.

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For many companies, building a sustainability strategy and roadmap is a crucial starting point. We help customers assess their operational sustainability by integrating data from various sources and existing technologies, converting it into actionable insights that are foundational for building that roadmap. Our sustainability assessment services span the environmental, social, and governance domains.

Sustainability Consulting
Sustainability and Decarbonization Assessment
Energy Audit and Consulting
Water Assessment
Water Monitoring
Sustainability Calculator for Repairs
Product Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) Integration
Industrial Safety Assessments
Cybersecurity Assessment and Design Consulting

Customers at this stage of their journey need solutions to advance their sustainability efforts by leveraging higher quality data and insights, and by increasing data visibility, completeness, and contextualization across the enterprise. We help our customers turn insights into strengths with a range of technologies that collect, integrate, and analyze sustainability and productivity data, including the data sources themselves.

Integrated (Sustainability) Data Gathering
Energy Monitoring and Management
Remote Water Monitoring
Process Monitoring and Analysis
Continuous Emissions Monitoring
Emissions Monitoring and Reporting
Supply Chain Traceability

We help customers accelerate their operational sustainability through continuous optimization and connection of processes and systems driven by AI, data, and co-innovation. Our platforms and AI-based solutions such as model predictive control and digital twins help customers optimize energy, water, and waste, and maximize industrial safety and cybersecurity.

Resources Optimization
Energy Optimization
Energy Efficiency
Electrification
Renewable Energy
Carbon Capture
Water Optimization
Waste Minimization
Downtime Minimization
Circular Economy
Cybersecurity Compliance

Success is Measured in Results

Helping operations, sustainability, and facility managers across industries achieve and exceed their sustainability and productivity goals.

20%

Lower energy consumption

42%

Reduction GHG emissions

75%

Lower water consumption

16%

Increased production

Results showcased come from our case studies

A Portfolio of Integrated and Tailored Solutions

Through our portfolio of integrated industrial sustainability solutions that combine Allen-Bradley® hardware, FactoryTalk® Software, Digital Twins and AI-based solutions, as well as sustainability consulting, we offer a tailored approach that helps customer optimize production and achieve sustainability goals.

Discover our Featured Technologies

Energy Efficiency at the Source

Optimize motor performance and reduce energy waste with PowerFlex® Variable Frequency Drives. Achieve local energy efficiency and lower operational costs.

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AI-Powered Process Optimization

Leverage predictive algorithms to optimize global processes. Improve stability and maximize efficiency across operations with FactoryTalk® Analytics™ PavilionX™ Model Predictive Control.

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Intelligent Energy Management

Gain real-time insights and contextualize energy consumption with FactoryTalk® Energy Manager™. Make smarter decisions for sustainability and cost savings.

Discover Energy Manager

AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance

Predict, Prevent, Protect. Enhance reliability and safety with AI-driven predictive maintenance and anomaly detection. Stay ahead of risks and ensure operational continuity.

Discover GuardianAI

Sustainability Consulting

Transform your sustainability goals into actionable, measurable strategies that drive longterm business value. Establish vision and prioritization of digital thread technologies.

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Rockwell Automation provides a Digital Product Passport (DPP) for its hardware products as a digital record linked to a physical product, providing detailed, end-to-end information about its lifecycle, materials, and environmental impact data.

Our DPP enables customers to scan a product's QR code to access data on product origin, composition, energy use, repairability, and sustainability metrics such as environmental impact and carbon footprint, aligning with the European Union's Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR).

A Top Tier Partner Ecosystem

We collaborate with a broad network of industry‑leading partners to innovate, integrate advanced technologies, and accelerate sustainable solutions. By combining diverse expertise and cutting‑edge capabilities, we help organizations unlock new opportunities, drive measurable impact, and deliver greater value across the entire value chain.

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Explore our Partners

Driving Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing across Industries.

Energy Optimization

Carbon Capture

Electric Vehicles

Batteries

Renewable Energy

Green Hydrogen

Biofuels

Recycling

Oil and Gas

Food and Beverage

Metals

Mining

Automotive

Tire

Life Sciences

Semiconductor

Trusted by Manufacturers Worldwide

“The successful collaboration with Rockwell allowed us to demonstrate the technical viability of the technology to operate at scale.”

Tony Baker - Director of Manufacturing Innovation, The Royal Mint
“This solution is game-changing for the food and beverage industry, particularly beverages and spirits.”

Gavin Dunwoodie - PFi Managing Director
“It’s been useful to have the Kalypso team help us because we didn’t have much expertise in this area. It’s very early stages for us but being able to see the contextualized information in close to real time has helped us understand the things we can focus on next to drive the most value.”

Daniel Baez - Analytics Capabilities Manager, Real Pet Food Company
“Rockwell is supporting us on goals that are part of Vale’s broader effort to align its dam management practices with global best standards, leveraging advanced technologies, continuous monitoring, and proactive adaptation to evolving regulations.”

José Roberto Silva Muniz - Control and Automation, Iron Ore North Projects Engineering Team, Vale
“Working with best-in-class partners for traceability is fundamental to our global strategy. It allows us to give all our customers clear visibility into the resiliency of the sodium and lithium supply base we have worked hard to cultivate over the years.”

Andrew Thomas - President, Acculon Energy

Awards and Initiatives

Increasing recognitions, expanding initiatives

World's Most Ethical Companies®

Recognized 17 times

FTSE4Good

Recognized 22 times

Sustainable Development Goals

Joined May 2023

Science Based Targets

Joined December 2023

ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance

Founding Member, 2019

Sustainability Case Studies

Learn how we are enabling sustainable manufacturing in your industry

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Sustainability White Papers

Explore cutting-edge insights and research on sustainability through our curated white papers

Our collaboration with the World Economic Forum and our involvement in the Industry Net Zero Accelerator led to the publication of several sustainability white papers.

United for Net Zero: Public-Private Collaboration to Accelerate Industry Decarbonization