To help customers navigate this important transition. Cisco is introducing four new digital solutions for industries -- manufacturing, transportation, utilities, and oil and gas. The solutions aim to help customers connect machines and assets, break through information silos, and digitize data in an integrated way across the business. Additionally, Cisco is announcing a new, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) security solution. Customers will use the Cisco IoT System Security and professional services from Cisco and partners to mitigate the risk of system disruption -- and efficiently assure compliance.
Removing Barriers to Efficiency To remain competitive, industries like manufacturing, utilities, oil and gas, and transportation need to increase productivity, deliver more value, and create better experiences for customers and end users. Some of the greatest obstacles to efficiency are operational silos. Silos separate people, machines, systems, information, and complete areas of a business; they separate information from operational technology. Breaking through silos with a more holistic and connected architecture connects people, streamlines communication and drives a more agile operation.
Introducing Four New Digital Solutions for Industries and IoT System Security Portfolio:
-- Connected Machines for Digital Manufacturing: A connected architecture that redefines secure, efficient, and visible operations. This solution enables rapid, standards-based, repeatable machine connectivity, and global factory integration while enabling OEM digitization and new business models -- including highly secure remote access, monitoring and serviceability of machines. Today, FANUC America and Cisco announced that they intend to implement the solution to enable robot connectivity and analytics for proactive maintenance. At an event in San Jose, high-tech manufacturer Flex outlined how it is already using the Connected Machines solution and FANUC Robots to drive efficiency and quality in its operations. Cisco is also today announcing a series of attractively priced solution bundles to simplify and accelerate infrastructure digitization for customers for the Factory Network, Factory Wireless and Factory Security.
-- Smart Connected Pipeline for Digital Oil and Gas: A connected, highly secure architecture that allows oil and gas companies more control over their pipelines, helping to protect assets from accidents or cyber-attacks. Operations are safer, more efficient -- and more secure. Schneider Electric and Cisco are collaborating to bring the Smart Connected Pipeline solution to market, and are already working with customers such as Italian multinational oil and gas company,ENI.
-- Substation Security for Digital Utilities: A connected and timely architecture that enables highly-secure power grids for reliable, more efficient service across the utilities industry. Now, more than ever,the nation's power grid needs additional layers of safety and security. Utility companies in North America must comply with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC/CIP) Version 5 mandated standards. South Carolina utility SCANA will be the first to deploy Cisco's Substation Security Solution -- a solution designed to enable utilities to comply with these regulations.
-- Connected Mass Transit for Digital Transportation: A connected architecture that will enable the delivery of greater safety, mobility and a better passenger experience. Through a converged network architecture that is based on the Cisco IoT System, transit systems can enhance automation, collaboration, video, cloud-to-fog agility and business intelligence. From the management control center to the transit station -- onto the roads, the rails, and onboard mass transit vehicles themselves -- the Cisco solution puts safety and security first. Situated on the River Danube, the Austrian City of Linz is implementing the solution to streamline operations across its tram network.
-- IoT System Security: The IoT System Security product-portfolio helps deliver highly secure connectivity, visibility and control to assure that IoT initiatives deliver competitive advantage for customers across all verticals. The Cisco IoT System Security product portfolio includes IoT-specific security with the introduction of a new,dedicated security appliance (ISA-3000 for application visibility,policy enforcement and threat defense) and a Fog Data Services security solution. With today's announcement, the IoT network can now act as a sensor and enforcer to provide security policy enforcement within router and switches. It also provides solutions for IoT physical security with video surveillance cameras, physical access control, and video surveillance manager with advanced security analytics. Cisco will continue to expand its IoT System security offering through additional developments and collaboration with key ecosystem partners, including Rockwell Automation.
Executive, Customer and Partner Quotes
-- Rick Schneider, North America CEO, FANUC: "Preventing unplanneddowntime is a huge savings for our customers and makes the FANUC
robots with ZDT a tremendous value. With Cisco, we are helping our
customers access this new value and also re-imagining our go-to-market
strategy for after-sales service and support. This has the potential
to have the biggest impact of anything I've seen in my 35-year
career."
-- Murad Kurwa, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Advanced
Engineering Group at Flex: "Cisco's vision of the power of Industrial
IoT was realized through joint collaboration using automation as the
enabler. With Universal Mechanical Assembly process partnering with
FANUC, we are now able to get data to create a pool of knowledge. This
helps us take action through analytics and ultimately leads to a more
robust 'process' performance -- leading to a world class, smart
factory."
-- Ed Rodden, CIO, SugarCreek: "We are using Cisco's Connected Machines
solution as we build our new 418,000 square foot factory of the
future. Cisco's new Industrial IoT platform will provide us the
ability to use all our company's available pieces of data, including
video and security, from all kinds of devices and to tie them all
together to drive more operational efficiency in the new factory."
-- Sujeet Chand, Sr. Vice President & CTO, Rockwell Automation: "The
Cisco IoT System Security solution will make an immediate impact for
customers by accelerating secure IT-OT convergence with an end-to-end
security solution, simplifying compliance and mitigating threat
vectors. Together with Cisco, we are helping industrial operations
maintain the integrity and confidentially of their network in support
of holistic enterprise risk management strategies throughout a
Connected Enterprise."
-- James Bielstein, CIO, Advanced Manufacturing Deployment for GE's
manufacturing facilities worldwide: "In order to start down the path
to becoming a Brilliant Factory, the first step is to deploy a modern
IT infrastructure. This infrastructure will give our plants the
flexibility and security needed to develop a 'digital thread' from
product design to shipping. Cisco is part of GE's Brilliant Factory
architecture."
-- Georg Linhard, Project Manager for LINZ AG TELEKOM: "We decided to
build on our existing Cisco network and channel its agility and
simplicity to incorporate new security, mobile, and analytics
technologies that help us achieve our goals and gain greater business
insight."
-- Patrick Albos, SVP, Oil and Gas Segment, Schneider Electric: "The
Smart Connected Pipeline brings SCADA and IT infrastructure together
in a converged, secure, easy to deploy and use platform, and brings
significant business value in optimizing and reducing cost of pipeline
operations."
-- Mike Prescher, Senior Security Architect - Telecommunications, Black
& Veatch: "Cyber security vendors are aware that utility data
infrastructures and their associated operations, admin and management
require specialized architectural constructs. These environments have
specific security posture visibility needs as well as industry
specific status and compliance reporting requirements. For years,
we've been engaged with Cisco, who has demonstrated active engagement
in understanding utility customers and their unique security
requirements."
-- Shawn Rahn, VP of IoT for Cisco Gold Partner, Presidio: "Cisco
investment into the industrial platforms for security solutions helps
customer ensure they can establish access gateways -- meeting key
security requirements wherever in their physical environments they are
required -- while also delivering an 'Operations Up' first alternative
to traditional security appliances that prioritize system uptime and
availability. This is a tremendous step forward in cyber-security for
the industrial world."
-- Randy Senn, CIO, SCANA Corporation: "With new regulatory requirements,
including North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical
Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) compliance, and a commitment to
cyber security, SCANA is continually modernizing our systems and our
grid for increased reliability and to better protect against
cyber-threats. We look to our technology partners, such as Cisco, for
digital technology to help comply with those regulations, stay safe,
and effectively enable operational technology."
-- Tony Shakib, VP, IoE Vertical Solutions Group, Cisco: "Digitization
is transforming virtually every industry. Cisco offers unmatched depth
and breadth of security, connectivity, and system visibility end to
end. And we do it in partnership with other leading companies our
customers work with. Our proven industry-specific architectures and
technologies give industry customers the edge they need to connect
their machines and assets, become more agile -- and compete and win in
a world of new opportunities."
-- Vikas Butaney, Senior Director of Product Management, IoT Systems and
Software Group, Cisco: "With the six pillars of Cisco IoT System we
simplified and helped our customers derive value from digitization
across industries: manufacturing, utilities, smart cities, and other
industries. As digitization is accelerating rapidly through the
adoption of IoT, securing physical assets and data is a major concern
for our customers. We are taking a comprehensive systems approach to
IoT security with three main elements: OT specific security, network
based security and physical security."
Supporting Resources:
-- Cisco Digital Solutions for Industries At A Glance-- Cisco Digital Solutions for Industries Infographic
-- Connected Machines White Paper
-- Digital Transformation Whitepaper: What it Means to Manufacturers
-- Cisco Connected Mass Transit At A Glance
-- Substation Security Solutions At A Glance
-- Schneider Electric and Cisco - The Smart Connected Pipeline
-- Linz AG Customer Case Study - Transforming Public Transit in Austria
-- Rockwell Automation and Cisco Converged Plantwide Ethernet Solution
-- Cisco ISA-3000 Industrial Security Appliance At A Glance
-- IoT System Security white Paper
-- Register for the Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF): Be a part of
this exclusive industry event hosted by Cisco in Dubai, December 6-8,
2015.
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