7 New Suppliers Join Rockwell Automation Encompass Program
Seven best-in-industry suppliers have recently joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass third-party product referencing program. The new Encompass program members include: Control Station Gardner Bender FLIR Systems Hermary Opto Electronic Jefferson Electric OES Technologies Parker Hannifin Filtration & Separation Division You can read more about this topic on Automation.com. What is Encompass Third Party Product Referencing [...]
IIS Installation (Setup) for Rockwell Automation Software
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a Web server for hosting anything on the Web. Many Rockwell Automation (as well as other automation company’s) software require IIS to be installed on the server(s). IIS is not installed on the servers by default. You can read more about what IIS is from Microsoft Official [...]
Rockwell Automation – Company of The Week
Rockwell Automation is the largest company in the world solely dedicated to automation and control. Its headquarters is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has offices all over U.S and the world and does business in every continent. Rockwell employs about 20,000 people in over 80 countries. It has about $5 billion revenue every year of which [...]
Rockwell Automation Declares 21 Percent Dividend Increase
Rockwell Automation announced, on June 3rd, that they will increase quarterly dividend on its common stock to 35 cents per share which is 21% increase. The dividend is payable on Sept. 10, 2010 to share owners of record at the close of business on Aug. 16, 2010. You can read more about it on Rockwell [...]
T. Rowe Price Profile (Major Rockwell Automation Stockholder)
T. Rowe Price is the largest stock holders of Rockwell Automation stocks. As I mentioned before to analyze where a company’s strategy is headed it is important to study the strategy of its largest stock holders. T. Rowe Price is an investing firm started in 1937 out of Baltimore, MD. As of March 31, 2010, [...]
FactoryTalk Transaction Manager Data Management Software
Transaction Manager is a data management software product in the suite of FactoryTalk software products that Rockwell Automation offers. In a nutshell Transaction Manager acts as the media between your plant data (ex. tags in PLC) and your database (MSQL, Access, etc). The tags have to be sent to Transaction Manager and depending on a [...]
Rockwell Automation Donated $150,000 to Haiti Relief
Rockwell Automation has committed $150,000 to disaster relief in Haiti after the devastating earth quake there. I found out from Rockwell’s internal news page and also their twitter page. I was surprised that I couldn’t find it in Google News or other websites.