Smart Manufacturing
Leverage Your Data
Make informed decisions, optimize your investments, and achieve successful outcomes in your smart manufacturing journey.
Applications
Unplanned downtime, production bottlenecks, and poor quality and waste result in lost productivity and prevent your operations from reaching goals. By digitizing and optimizing your data, you can improve plant floor productivity, reliability, and quality by accessing real-time metrics to make smarter business decisions. Learn how our solutions can help you better manage your data to gain efficiency.
Network Modernization
Upgrade and integrate a converged, scalable, and secure OT network to support current and future state needs for data flow and access.
Solutions & Services
- Network Assessment
- Network Design Documentation
- Cybersecurity Posture Assessment
- Plant Network Design
- Network Protocol Conversion and Integration
- Software Defined Networking
- Network Cabling and Infrastructure
- Plant Network Switches
- Firewalls
Quality Management & Optimization
Quality Management & Optimization
Gain operational efficiencies through a digital quality management and optimization system that improves and automates collection, analysis, visibility and control of quality variables and issues.
Solutions & Services
- Digital Quality Management System
- Batch Control
- Process and Quality Data Collection
- Process and Quality Data Analytics
- Process and Quality Data Visualization
- Instrumentation/Sensing
- Barcode Readers and Printers
Predictive Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance
Maximize reliability and uptime by moving towards a predictive maintenance strategy and platform that uses modern tools to integrate, track, measure, and analyze the maintenance around each asset.
Solutions & Services
- Digital/Cloud Based Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Edge to Cloud Data Connectivity
- Condition Monitoring and Sensing
Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Gain real-time visibility and contextualization of OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) data to make continuous improvement efforts easy.
Solutions & Services
- Performance Monitoring Software
- Condition Monitoring and Sensing
- Edge data Collection and Connectivity
- Network Infrastructure and Devices
Production Management
Production Management
Improve production workflows and scheduling when you integrate your ERP to your plant floor with a manufacturing execution system (MES).
Solutions & Services
- Manufacturing Execution System
- Edge Data Collection and Connectivity
- System Integration Technology
- Barcode Readers
Digitizing Product Data
Digitizing Product Data
Enhance your operations visibility and gain productivity when you leverage technology to digitize manual data entry, analysis, reporting and flow between systems.
Solutions & Services
- Edge Data Collection and Contextualization
- Network and Data Connectivity
- Data Collection Software
- Reporting Software
Asset Health & Utilization
Asset Health & Utilization
Centralize and track the utilization and health of your industrial assets to provide you visibility into potential bottlenecks and elevated risks for downtime.
Solutions & Services
- Edge Data Collection and Contextualization
- Network and Data Connectivity
- Asset Performance Management Software
- Cloud Based Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Integration
Insights on how to leverage data
Learn about our latest smart manufacturing projects, best practices, latest news and more.
Don’t Play the Waiting Game: A Timeline to Reduce Unplanned Downtime
- June 25 , 2026
- Best Practices
- Automation
Reduce unplanned downtime with a smarter response plan. Learn how commissioning, remote support services and preventative maintenance contracts help manufacturers fix issues faster and avoid repeat failures.
What's Slowing You Down? Improve Manufacturing Efficiency in 4 Steps
- June 11 , 2026
- Best Practices
- Automation
Learn how to improve manufacturing efficiency in 4 practical steps. Identify bottlenecks, streamline workflows and leverage industrial automation services to keep production moving.
10 Biggest Changes in Smart Manufacturing: Insights from the 2025 Smart Manufacturing Report
- October 28 , 2025
- Best Practices
- Automation
The Smart Manufacturing Report highlights 10 major shifts influencing how manufacturers approach strategy, technology investments, and daily operations.
Dig Deeper with Smarter Mining Automation
- September 25 , 2025
- Best Practices
- Automation
From harsh environments to high-stakes operations, mining demands precision and reliability. Van Meter’s mining automation solutions, powered by Rockwell Automation, help you optimize performance, reduce downtime, and improve safety. Discover how expert support and cutting-edge technology can transform your mining operations underground and above.
From Plant Floor to Plate: Powering Food Safety with Smart Manufacturing Solutions
- July 31 , 2025
- News
- Automation
Food and beverage manufacturers face increasing pressure to meet stringent safety standards. Learn how Rockwell Automation’s advanced technologies help reduce contamination risks, support regulatory compliance, and improve operational efficiency.
Travel Packages Now Open: Secure Your Spot with Van Meter for Automation Fair 2025
- July 24 , 2025
- News
- Automation
Join Van Meter at Automation Fair 2025 in Chicago! We’re offering convenient hotel packages that include General Access and Rockwell training passes—making your trip seamless and stress-free.
Transform Your Operation with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform by Rockwell Automation
- June 26 , 2025
- Product Promotions
- Automation
Plex Systems, a Rockwell Automation company, delivers a unified, cloud-native Smart Manufacturing Platform with MES, QMS, ERP, SCP, APM, and analytics—empowering manufacturers to optimize operations, ensure quality, and drive real-time production insights across the enterprise.
Everything You’ll Need To “Create What’s Next” At Automation Fair 2025
- June 03 , 2025
- Best Practices
- Automation
This November 17-20, Automation Fair is coming to Chicago for a four-day event to showcase the new and trending automation solutions that will Create What’s Next. Here are six things you should know to maximize your experience at Automation Fair 2025.
Discover how smart machine solutions help manufacturers and OEMs reduce downtime, improve productivity, protect assets, and empower their workforce through data-driven insights and connected technologies.
Join us at a Smart Solutions Summit
- February 17 , 2025
- Training and Events
- Automation
Take ownership of your smart manufacturing journey at the Smart Solutions Summit, a one-day event filled with industry leading topics and result-driven conversations.
Download the report now to find out what’s working for leading manufacturers, benchmark your technology usage, explore best practices and uncover 2024 trends.
Three Big Findings From Our Production Systems Technology Survey
- September 12 , 2023
- Best Practices
- Automation
These insights will help you benchmark your smart manufacturing journey, understand where you may be ahead of your competitors or falling behind, and make the case to leadership when improvements are needed to maintain a competitive edge.
Connect with our experts
Talk to an employee-owner about how we can make a positively powerful impact on your business.
Jackie LaFleur
Smart Manufacturing Manager
Josh Reitz
Smart Manufacturing Business Consultant
Karl Schmidt
Information Solutions Architect
Toni Etten
Information Solutions Architect
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