The Network is the Platform for Responsive Manufacturing
With Cisco Connected Manufacturing solutions in place, you have access to more accurate and timely information throughout your organization and supply chain. This allows you to make better-informed decisions more quickly. Collaboration tools and enhanced communications can help you manage increasingly complex product lines and introduce new and updated products more quickly and efficiently.
The Cisco Connected Manufacturing portfolio of solutions helps you be more connected, responsive, and competitive throughout the value chain. They can help you:
Increase the rate of innovation in research and development
Improve production efficiency and flexibility
Adapt your supply chain to changing markets
Enhance customer intimacy in sales and service
Solution Descriptions
Overview Demo: Understand the vision of Cisco Intelligent Networked Manufacturing. Launch 4-minute Flash Demo (EXE - 10.1 MB)
Solution Overview: Learn how Cisco INM helps integrates information and processes spanning the entire manufacturing workflow. Read the Overview. (PDF - 911 KB)
Discover the Benefits
Learn how chemical and mineral specialist Lehmann & Voss deploys a Cisco storage area network to defend its mission-critical applications against downtime. Read the Case Study (PDF - 414 KB)
Network Security on the Plant Floor: Solution expert Mark Wylie writes about "Industrial Strength Is Not the Same as Industrial Security" in this Industrial Ethernet Book article. Read the Article
Industrial Ethernet for Control Engineers: Understand Ethernet technology and its benefits in the data networking environment in "Industrial Ethernet: A Control Engineer's Guide White Paper." Read White Paper (PDF - 133 KB)
Manufacturing News
Network Is Better Business for Manufacturer
See how a Cisco network implementation has helped Asian manufacturer, Inventec, reduce telecommunications costs
by 35 percent and inventory by 30 percent, in addition to improving competitiveness and customer satisfaction.
Watch the video. (WMV - 9.26 MB)
