Digital Manufacturing

The factory of the future is already here.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Connect my factory

Reduce downtime, increase productivity, and maintain industry compliance.

Secure my factory

Unify industrial security for IT and OT applications.

The road to smart manufacturing

Manufacturers are improving business operations with the power of industrial security and industrial Ethernet.

Lag time in IIoT adoption due to cybersecurity concerns
Source: “Holistic Security for Connected Manufacturing”
IoT endpoints by 2020
Source: Data management in digital manufacturing
Plan to deploy IoT capabilities in three years
Source: "How Greater Industrial Network Connectivity Transforms Operations"

The factory of tomorrow, today

Security, safety, and risk are growing concerns for your operation. Where do you begin?

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Hear from our manufacturing customers

"This has been a game changer for our business. We completely recouped our initial investment in just nine months and saved more than $1M in the first year."
Ayako Wilson, Senior General Manager, AWNC

Visualize your digital factory

Use our interactive maps to plan your IoT project with industrial networking best practices.

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Improve visibility, reduce costs

See how Mohawk flooring uses Cisco Connected Factory to improve business operations.

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Training and resources

Gain On Demand access to training, webinars and other resources to help digitize your factory.

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Discover your Industrial IoT Readiness

Take a quick assessment to see where you rank on Industrial IoT readiness.

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A Digital Factory Core

What to look for in a network foundation

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Collaboration solutions in action

Discover why modern manufacturing requires collaboration to drive production and streamline processes.

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Cisco Kinetic for manufacturing

Get the most business value from your factory data. Amplify operational and business insights you need to boost overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), optimize energy use, and reduce downtime.

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Cisco Manufacturing technical workshop

Join Cisco experts for a one-day manufacturing workshop. Discover real-world applications that will help you gain insights and best practices for improving operations, driving innovation, and reducing risk to make your business a market leader.

A new era of networking for manufacturing.

The Network. Intuitive.

Explore Cisco’s
intent-based networking

Imagine a network that offers visibility into production and inventory, creating context around everything that happens within the enterprise.

A network that understands business intent and dynamically safeguards new IoT initiatives while helping IT and operations teams collaborate.

It constantly monitors facilities, machines, and connected devices to identify and contain suspicious activity no matter where it hides.

That’s intent-based networking.

It’s constantly learning.

The new network works tirelessly to unlock data from machines, sensors, and the network itself, turning info into insights that maximize productivity, improve quality, and prevent downtime.

It’s constantly adapting.

An automated network helps you keep pace with customer and market needs, ensuring continuous high-performance IT and OT services and increasing agility while lowering operational costs.

It’s constantly protecting.

The new network is always searching for threats within your facilities and enterprise, even in encrypted traffic. Protect your IoT devices, production data, and intellectual property with an intelligent network.

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is for the digital era.

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Digital Manufacturing

I need to...

Connect my factory

Secure my factory

Connect my workers