Remote access isn’t just an option for manufacturers anymore – it’s a requirement for greater efficiency and profitability. Secure remote access requires the right tools and technology, and the right policies in place to determine who gets in, what they can access, and where and when organizational assets, applications and data can be accessed. Here’s how Rockwell Automation does it.
How Do You Secure a Factory from Floor to Cloud?
With FactoryTalk software for modern industry
FactoryTalk® software is built for supporting an ecosystem of advanced industrial applications, including Internet of Things (IoT) and remote access control. It all starts at the edge where manufacturing happens, and scales from factory floor to the enterprise to the cloud.
Imagine supercharging your industrial environment with systems that let you maximize your profitability through secure and safe access. Execute cutting edge designs, maximize operational efficiencies, and gain predictive and augmented maintenance advantages, adding flexibility unpredictable and dynamic situations, such as the extreme pivoting of worker locations required by the pandemic.
From process to batch to discrete applications, your most complex challenges are solved with the combination of award-winning Rockwell Automation software, hardware and LifecycleIQ™ services.
Secure Remote Access Maximizes Profitability
Deliver more value and reduce security concerns
Remote access is increasingly common across industries — and we can easily see why. It can provide significant benefits to end users and opportunities for their OEM partners.
For OEMs, remote access offers an additional revenue stream, stronger customer relationships and competitive differentiators. Monitoring a customer's machine performance from anywhere in the world and responding to critical situations remotely can speed resolution for performance issues as well as saving travel and on-site costs.
Industrial end users are realizing similar benefits. They're implementing smart machines that easily integrate with enterprise-wide networks and share information with their OEM partners. OEMs can respond faster to equipment issues or help prevent them in the first place — resulting in less downtime and increased production. In addition, facility operators have fewer machines to worry about and can rely on service level agreements to guarantee uptime.
From Customers to OEMs; Security Matters to Everyone
Any digital presence is a target for cybercrime
Cybercrime costs the global economy an estimated $400 billion per year. Attacks can target anyone or anything with a digital presence, and they can come in many forms — from a malicious hack halfway around the world to the insertion of a USB device into an unguarded computer port in an organization's facility. Companies also can face well-intentioned internal threats from employees or others in the supply chain who make accidental, but costly, mistakes.
In the industrial world, security risks are a growing concern as more companies develop a Connected Enterprise® to capture the value of the IoT. This greater level of connectivity offers nearly limitless opportunities for improving a company's operations and reducing downtime, but it also can carry risk if not implemented properly.
