Rockwell Software Inventory and Enterprise Installed Base evaluation services

The majority of production facilities operating today are a mix of modern technologies and equipment operating well past its expected life cycle. Many companies are not entirely sure what equipment they have or the specific risks that are associated with ageing equipment. Rockwell Automation has released software and enterprise evaluation services designed to help manufacturers and industrial operators better manage their assets and reduce risk. This is particularly important as manufacturers converge information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) systems.

The Software Inventory Evaluation service provides organisations with a thorough analysis of their plant-floor IT assets — including servers, PCs, laptops and mobile devices — and of the various software installed on those assets. This can help identify potential compatibility risks between specific firmware and software versions. It can also help close knowledge gaps among support staff regarding which software versions are used across equipment, how many licences are used or unused and whether software is being properly supported.

The Enterprise Installed Base Evaluation service can include a multisite Software Inventory Evaluation service or Installed Base Evaluation service, which is used to analyse critical plant assets to provide a full accounting and analysis of an organisation’s IT and OT assets across the enterprise.

Organisations can use the Enterprise Installed Base Evaluation service to support specific corporate-wide initiatives, such as identifying their most critical assets, reducing obsolescence risks, managing corporate storeroom and spare parts initiatives and ensuring all assets have up-to-date bills of material.