Cisco Validated Designs for Digital Manufacturing

Secure and reliable networks for the smart factory

Accelerate your transition to a more secure, reliable, and agile industrial environment with network design guides that can help you implement manufacturing automation and Industry 4.0 technologies.

Validated designs for manufacturing

Accelerating industrial automation

Build a robust and secure network for your industrial control systems and pave the way to agile industrial automation and innovative Industry 4.0 technologies.


Making manufacturing networks simpler

Learn how you can automate the deployment and maintenance of your industrial network. Use AI/ML analytics to identify and resolve issues and help ensure compliance and performance.


Securing manufacturing operations

See how your network can give you visibility into your industrial assets and processes so that you can secure operations comprehensively with a series of simple steps


Connecting remote and mobile assets

Take your manufacturing operations to the next level. Build a network infrastructure that can easily include vehicles, industrial sensors, and remote assets.


More manufacturing automation capabilities

Stay ahead of industry trends and accelerate your digital transformation by leveraging our industry-leading networking experience for digital manufacturing.

Partner architectures

Rockwell Automation

Design and deploy a scalable, reliable, and highly secure operational network with an architecture created by Cisco and Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation

Explore Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE)

Converged Plantwide Ethernet library

Schneider Electric

Enable a secure production ecosystem with powerful OT and IT capabilities that facilitates Industry 4.0 innovations.

Schneider Electric

Schneider reference architecture for industrial automation (TVDA)

Schneider reference architecture to protect a plant (TVDA)

Industrial IoT customer stories

Learn how manufacturers are leveraging our validated designs and solutions to transform their operations and realize key industrial IoT outcomes.

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