Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, talks about Logix as a cornerstone of the Factory of the Future.

Most people come into contact with something that has been produced using a Logix controller every day: The car you drive to work, the bottled water you drink at your desk, the dressing you use on your dinner salad, the airport shuttle you use to catch your flight, the package you receive from Amazon. Logix is more than hardware ... it's at the heart of our lives, manufacturing your future.

ODVA is a standards development organization and membership association whose members comprise the world’s leading industrial automation companies. ODVA works to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies in industrial automation.

Smarter machines allow smarter manufacturing. An integrated Smart Safety solution provides all the data needed to create a comprehensive picture of the status of the machine or production line.

Smart manufacturing helps you: monitor machine health, increase uptime, improve manufacturing agility, increase safety and productivity and lower total cost of ownership.

Digital transformation acceleration is driving the demand for smart safety solutions, which are now an essential component of a manufacturer’s and processor’s operational resilience strategy, and a key enabler of achieving the productivity required to thrive in this new normal.

To meet this demand, Rockwell Automation has further enhanced its broad portfolio of smart safety solutions.

The Safety Automation Builder software tool is now integrated with risk assessment software RASWin to help guide engineers through steps of the machinery safety lifecycle within one environment, providing documentation to show compliance with international standards.

See the benefits of Safety Automation Builder outlined in a short animated video.

Are you interested in improving your company's machine safety program? Whether your operations are based in one country or around the world, deploying an effective safety program that encompasses all of your plants, employees, machinery, standards and production goals is a substantial undertaking.

Even the most comprehensive safety program can experience head-scratching inconsistencies from plant to plant. Maybe one of your plants is consistently a top safety performer, but another is plagued with ongoing incidents. Perhaps your safety performance is strong across the board, but there are wild variations in safety-related machinery downtime.

The research presented in this eBook sheds new light on the business value of safety. It shows a clear association between the adoption of safety and risk management best practices and operational benefits. Key topics include:

• Business drivers and strategic objectives of safety initiatives.
• Adoption rates of safety and risk management people, process and technology capabilities in industrial organizations.
• Safety and risk best practices most associated with operational benefits.
• Action steps to help EHS business leaders communicate the strategic value of safety initiatives.