Panduit and Rockwell Automation form strategic alliance

Tuesday, 23 October, 2012

Rockwell Automation and Panduit have formed a strategic alliance that expands their long-standing Encompass product-referencing relationship.

The companies say they are focused on providing optimised physical network infrastructure solutions, effective collaboration between automation and IT, and integrated solutions and services for customers globally.

The alliance will initially focus on integration of physical implementation, employing best practices and industry standards, providing education and services to facilitate manufacturing and IT convergence, and enabling successful architecture deployment.

“A strong alignment of Panduit and Rockwell Automation technologies and architectures simplifies network design and integration for our common customers,” said Tom Donovan, President of Panduit. “Our combined capabilities reduce risk, operational costs and time to market.”

“Together, we can now offer comprehensive logical to physical plantwide infrastructure solutions and architectures leveraging EtherNet/IP to provide the level of performance, manageability and security required for today’s industrial networks,” added John McDermott, Senior VP of global sales and marketing, Rockwell Automation.

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