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Rockwell Automation released its FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices appliance and a new FactoryTalk TeamONE Standard Edition app, both designed to leverage the connections across industrial operations already established by the smart devices used by plant or distributed workers to help enable teams on the plant floor to make better, quicker decisions. These off-the-shelf offerings require minimal configuration and help to solve common maintenance problems faster, which can reduce unplanned downtime. The appliance and app can help improve reaction time for maintenance teams and further assist decision makers with health and diagnostics analytics for industrial devices and systems.
These offerings are some of the first subscription offerings from Rockwell Automation. To further streamline the adoption process, a new e-commerce portal is used to manage the new offerings. All subscriptions and management can take place within a single, self-service portal. These new products are targeted at producers going through a digital transformation, who seek modern tools that do not take too long or too much investment to deploy, but are used to decipher and deliver relevant data to the correct employees.
FactoryTalk TeamONE App
Rockwell Automation is releasing a new edition, dubbed the Standard Edition, of the FactoryTalk TeamONE app, focused on helping manufacturers to reduce mean time to repair. The new edition adds an alarm module, enabling teams to collaborate with live alarm details. This gives users the ability to view all active alarms. They can also view, share and post new details, delivering increased team collaboration by adding context with alarm information. Alarms requiring immediate action can be shared with specific team members or posted to the entire team for group management and resolution.
As a smart node, the FactoryTalk TeamONE app requires no server, device to cloud gateways, or IT setup for manufacturers to deploy, which expands as they go through their digital transformation. The app is currently available on the Apple App Store and Google Play store, and a new user account can be set up in a short period of time.
The new Standard Edition is a paid yearly subscription and expands the features available in the free edition of the app. Released in 2016, the FactoryTalk TeamONE Free Edition app provides near-real-time incident and device data to plant-floor maintenance teams that include engineering, trades and IT workers. The free edition lowers the barriers for industrial teams to collaborate and helps to solve issues with contextualized plant-floor data, such as trends and device status. Modules in this free edition include Incident, Device Status, Teamboard, Knowledgebase, Pinboard, Chat, and Trend modules. Within the FactoryTalk TeamONE app, customers can have a mix of free and subscription users on their teams.
FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices Appliance
Rockwell Automation is also releasing the FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices, which is a hardened appliance that helps to avoid costly downtime and improve productivity by proactively identifying device health. By providing a connection to power and a local control system network, the appliance begins providing analytics in a short period of time.
After the connections are made, the application detects automation devices on the network without disrupting performance. Plant-floor teams then gain access to specific calls-to-action, instant device displays and an advanced machine-learning-based chat bot, which are all available from within the appliance. The appliance learns what is important to users by continuously analyzing the devices on the network and delivering recommendations to help maintenance and engineering teams reduce unplanned downtime and more quickly repair systems.
The FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices appliance can detect and perform a basic analysis on any EtherNet/IP device. The appliance also has detailed analytics for over 2,000 Allen-Bradley devices. The first year’s subscription is included for each appliance. Subsequent subscriptions are encouraged for customers to progressively receive updated analytics, features and device support, including third-party devices.
The new offerings are available now and are being featured at the Rockwell Automation TechED event from June 11-16 in Orlando, Florida.
Keywords: Smart Devices, Plant Floor, Digital Transformation, Device Health, Analytics, ARC Advisory Group.