Rockwell Automation and Cisco Come Together to Reimagine Manufacturing for India’s Digital and Industrial Future
Rockwell Automation and Cisco have formed a strategic partnership to advance India's manufacturing sector through software-defined automation and IT-OT integration. The collaboration includes a new reference design, a demo facility in Gurugram, and a joint digital skills initiative.
Why it matters
This partnership aims to accelerate India's industrial digital transformation, helping local manufacturers adopt AI-enabled autonomous operations to remain globally competitive.
Rockwell Automation, Inc . (NYSE: ROK), and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a strategic collaboration to help reimagine the future of manufacturing in India, bringing together IT and industrial automation to support the country’s ambitions for advanced, resilient, and globally competitive manufacturing.
At the heart of this partnership is the launch of a Full-Stack Software-Defined Manufacturing reference design, along with the availability of a Software-Defined Manufacturing Demo Pod at Rockwell Automation’s Gurugram facility, developed in collaboration with Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration program . The companies also announced a joint digital skills initiative for the manufacturing industry, aimed at closing the manufacturing digital skills gap through Cisco Networking Academy and Rockwell’s Learning+ program.
Together, these initiatives reflect a shared commitment by Rockwell Automation and Cisco to support India’s national manufacturing vision by enabling industries to move from traditional automation toward AI-enabled autonomous operations.
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