You would be hard-pressed to find an industry that isn’t being dramatically transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in 2025. Nowhere is that more evident than manufacturing, where AI/ML is heavily disrupting how work gets done and redefining the status quo.
At the forefront of this revolution is Rockwell Automation, the global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. Let’s explore how Rockwell is integrating AI/ML into its solutions and how Agilix Solutions can help you harness these advancements for your operations.
Predictive Maintenance Solutions
Unplanned downtime is a costly challenge for manufacturers. Rockwell Automation is revolutionizing maintenance with AI-powered predictive solutions that optimize production lines, increase efficiency, and identify equipment anomalies before they lead to outages. By addressing potential failures proactively, manufacturers can significantly reduce costs and enhance productivity.
Better-Informed Decisions with Data Collection and Analysis
Rockwell Autmation’s FactoryTalk® Analytics suite is equipped with advanced AI tools to help manufacturers collect and analyze data from industrial systems. Using AI/ML, FactoryTalk® Analytics provides actionable insights that help you make better decisions, optimize processes, and increase the reliability of manufacturing systems.
Remote System Integration and Monitoring
Remote monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnostics capabilities allow manufacturers to reduce headcount costs and streamline these tasks to a smaller, centralized team. AI solutions from Rockwell Automation are being leveraged to analyze real-time data from various previously disparate sensors and systems, enabling engineers to provide more precise support and recommendations remotely. This enhances remote monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnostics.
Faster Decision Making with Edge Computing
Edge computing processes data where it is generated. Rockwell Automation’s AI solutions leverage edge computing to reduce latency, enable faster decision-making, and automate processes at the machine level. AI and edge computing collaborate to analyze data and optimize operations locally and in real time.
AI-Powered Robotics
Rockwell Automation recently acquired OTTO Motors autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and announced a collaboration with NVIDIA AI. These two moves together are a sign of their plans to use AI to improve robot task efficiency, adapt to environmental changes, and enable robots to safely co-work with human operators. AI-powered robots will be a powerful addition to assembly lines, material handling facilities, and any manufacturing environment that requires flexibility.
Rapid Quality Control Capabilities
Anything manufacturers can do to improve quality control has a direct impact on the bottom line. Rockwell Automation has developed AI-powered vision systems that use deep learning and machine vision to provide more reliable quality control, defect detection, and object recognition. Ensuring higher quality and fewer defects reduces the odds of undetected product issues and potential future recalls, particularly in industries like automotive, food and beverage, and electronics.
Optimizing Industrial Energy Usage
Now more than ever, manufacturers are under increased pressure to minimize the environmental impact of their operations. Rockwell Automation leverages AI to analyze energy consumption data and optimize the use of energy. As companies aim to improve sustainability metrics, these systems can help reduce waste and costs without compromising high operational standards.
Join us on Wednesday, January 22, for a free virtual online seminar titled Leveraging AI With Rockwell Automation Solutions, featuring Rockwell Automation Senior Solutions Consultant Udaya Kumar, CMfgE, GICSP, P.E. We’ll explore several emerging examples of businesses who are achieving business goals with AI and how customers are building an industrial dataops framework to accelerate their data analytics and machine learning journey.
Take the next step in your digital transformation journey with Agilix Solutions and Rockwell Automation.