Learning
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Consultants
Consultants provides business and technology consulting capabilities well before the systems integration phase.
Digital solutions integrators
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Global industry partners
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Independent hardware vendors
IHVs specialize in hardware-based solutions. The hardware might be combined with Cisco platforms to provide customers with integrated systems or appliance stack. Typically, this is a meet-in-the-channel model.
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Service providers
SPs specialize in large-scale deployment of communications and technology solutions built on Cisco platforms.
Systems integrators
SIs create complex information systems that may include designing or building a customized architecture or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, packaged and custom software, and communications.
Cisco portfolio for manufacturing: What can we help you solve today?
- Manufacturing supply chain operations
- Advanced manufacturing operations
- Workforce enablement
- Industrial security and safety
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
- __________
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Manufacturing supply chain operations
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Advanced manufacturing operations
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Workforce enablement
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Industrial security and safety
Advanced warehouse operations
People, machines, and materials are in constant motion within a manufacturing warehouse operations. Proactively monitor and manage supply chain for plant warehousing operations by connecting machines, sensors, scanners, and video systems with secure, standards-based connectivity to improve operations, supply chain visibility, productivity, and safety.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Optimal operations, labor, orders, and equipment
- Optimize for material flow, work orders, and sequencing tasks
- Connect to increasing number of devices in warehouse operations
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Business needs
- Robust connectivity environment
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Real-time, multi-site asset management
- Reduced costs and downtime through predictive and remote maintenance
- Adaptability and support for next-generation systems
- Drive cybersecurity visibility and protection into warehouse operations
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Capabilities
- Intuitive connectivity deployed across new and legacy equipment transmitting process data
- Real-time edge processing and secure forwarding of critical data
- Secure remote access
- Paperless picking
- Intelligent put-away
- Leading validated designs for robust connectivity of an increasing number of devices and machines
- Visualization of sensor data to anticipate failures
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Business outcomes
- Traffic flow monitoring to enable optimization of current operations
- Performance tracking to set proper levels of staffing
- Expediting of critical orders
- Maximize uptime and lower costs with reduced turnaround time
- Improved facility-wide productivity
- Lowered operating costs
- Improved asset management
- Improved yield and throughput
- Unrestricted line moves, adds, and changes due to network connectivity
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Stakeholders
- Chief financial officer
- VP of supply chain
- Warehouse manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing (SD-WAN) |
Viptela |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Data center |
Hyperflex |
|
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Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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|
Industrial asset vision |
Industrial Asset Vision (SaaS) LoRaWAN gateway |
|
|
Security Special offers below |
SecureX platform Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Industrial Security Appliance (ISA) 3000 Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Network Analytics |
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|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
|
Network management |
Cisco Catalyst Center IoT Operations Dashboard |
|
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
|
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Inventory management
Complete visibility into all assets, raw material utilization, and material handling within the facility to meet plant demand and inventory management goals.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Lack of real-time visibility into on-hand inventory
- Inefficient space utilization
- Assurance of supply (AOS)
- Moving away from error-prone paper-based processes
- Latency of information exchange across the supply chain
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Business needs
- Ensuring warehouse inventory is as accurate as possible, so staff and customers know what is available for manufacturing order fulfillment
- Identifying the most efficient and effective way to fulfill manufacturing orders
- Manage inventory across all phases of production
- Deploy advance inventory management systems (JIT, digital Kanban, lean, etc)
- Improve supply chain agility
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Capabilities
- Collect data and monitor inventory with sensors/cameras embedded in plant, in transit, and in warehouse
- Machine-to-machine analytics to create insights and trigger actions and alerts
- Leveraging up-to-date stock information to improve order fulfilment and inventory accuracy
- Real-time collaboration with suppliers and partners
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Business outcomes
- Improve assurance of supply
- Improve order fulfilment rate
- Improve supply chain performance
- Reduced labor costs
- Reduced inventory waste
- Lower inventory carrying cost.
- Increase inventory turns
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- VP of supply chain
- Warehouse manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Data center |
HyperFlex |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
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Industrial asset vision |
Industrial Asset Vision (SaaS) LoRaWAN gateway |
|
Security Special offers below |
Secure Access by Duo Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Umbrella |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Industrial mobility
Enable a comprehensive wireless asset roaming environment across and between plants, warehouses, and storage yards.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Increase capacity and factory performance
- Meet customer demand
- Leverage the best mobile material handling (AGVs, forklifts, and stacking conveyor systems)
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Business needs
- Improve factory operations/OEE
- Reducing human picking errors
- Increase throughput
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Capabilities
- Comprehensive wireless asset roaming environment across and between plants, warehouses, and storage yards
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Business outcomes
- Improved equipment performance (OEE)
- Improved labor productivity (turns/labor hour)
- Improved asset utilization
- Lower cabling and labor costs
- Increased productivity for specialized resources
- Reduce human picking errors
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- VP of supply chain
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Hyperflex |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Industrial automation
Securely connect production systems--including IACS devices, sensors, actuators, and controllers; key machines; and assets such as robots, CNC machines, tools, process skids, and RTUs--to plant and enterprise networks.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs and maintain a productive working environment
- Optimize operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
- Connect to increasing number of factory devices
- Need to connect factory environments to Industry 4.0 applications
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Business needs
- Robust connectivity environment
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Real-time, multi-site asset management
- Reduced costs and downtime through predictive and remote maintenance
- Adaptability and support for next-generation systems
- Drive cybersecurity visibility and protection into factories
-
Capabilities
- Intuitive connectivity deployed across new and legacy equipment transmitting process data
- Real-time edge processing and secure forwarding of critical data
- Secure remote access
- Leading validated designs for robust connectivity of an increasing number of devices and machines
- Visualization of sensor data to anticipate failures
-
Business outcomes
- Improved OEE
- Real-time production management
- Maximize uptime and lower costs with reduced turnaround time
- Improved plant-wide productivity
- Lowered operating costs
- Improved asset management
- Improved yield and throughput
- Unrestricted line moves, adds, and changes due to network connectivity
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Stakeholders
- Chief financial officer
- VP of manufacturing and operations
- Plant manager
- Industrial network architect
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Engineering director
- Control engineer
- Director of IT
Technical overview
Cisco validated designs
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 5000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul |
|
Data center |
Hyperflex |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
Security Special offers below |
SecureX platform Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Industrial Security Appliance (ISA) 3000 Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Network Analytics |
|
Network management |
Cisco Catalyst Center Field Network Director (FND) IoT Operations Dashboard |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Data collection and management
Capture compute information from point of acquisition to target systems for faster decision-making, real-time insights, and machine learning.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Improved operational efficiency
- Real-time production visibility
- Lowered operating and maintenance costs
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Business needs
- Obtain valid performance information for increased efficiency through multi-site sensor data management
- Data capture and analysis and sharing in real time
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Early identification and mitigation of risk
- Optimize employee performance
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Capabilities
- Obtain more accurate data at a massive scale leveraging a comprehensive network design
- Provide a secure platform for visualization across all equipment and sensor data to anticipate failures
- Real-time edge processing and secure forwarding of critical data
- Unified centralized dashboard
- Acquire new insights based on factual models and anomalies
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Business outcomes
- Increased uptime by preventing equipment issues before they occur
- Optimized parameters leading to better asset operations
- Improved performance monitoring and process condition optimization
- Enable predictive maintenance
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- Plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
- Engineering/product development
- Data scientists/analysts
- Director of IT
Technical overview
Demo: The Future of Manufacturing is Now
See how Cisco edge and collaboration enable real-time decisions and operational efficiency for the workforce.
Cisco validated designs
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1100 Series SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Data center |
HyperFlex Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
Gateway and application management |
IoT Operations Dashboard Field Network Director (FND) |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Asset visibility and control
Apply asset status, condition, and/or location to improve utilization.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Industry 4.0 requires connecting people, processes, and assets
- Increasing factory automation and robotics
- Mass customization requires real-time asset visibility
- Integrated extended supply chains require faster response
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Business needs
- Improve asset utilization
- Improve worker productivity
- Improve plant safety
- Reduce search times for misplaced assets
- Remote asset monitoring
- Increase plant agility
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Capabilities
- Track tools, WIP and personnel status, location, and condition
- Trigger and broadcast notifications and physical alarms based on asset status, location, and condition across an integrated network
- Improve visibility and control of robots and AGVs
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Business outcomes
- Improved asset utilization
- Improved plant-wide productivity
- Reduce waste
- Eliminate shrinkage due to lost direct and indirect materials
- Improve worker safety
- Reduce time to locate assets
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- Plant management personnel
- Plant maintenance
- Purchasing
Technical overview
Cisco validated designs
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Data center |
HyperFlex Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
Industrial asset vision |
Industrial Asset Vision (SaaS) LoRaWAN gateway |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Remote operations
Gain visibility and insights, stop manual troubleshooting, and reduce time spent on issues with wireless solutions that are highly secure, scalable, and easy to manage.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Wi-Fi technology is now robust enough to handle video and mobility tasks on the factory floor
- Industry 4.0: Large amounts of data drive insights that increase productivity and reduce costs
- Transition from traditional laborers to knowledge workers
- Reduced expertise in workforce
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Business needs
- Issues to be diagnosed and fixed without the need for an on-site worker
- Increase worker productivity and safety
- Increase time on tools
- Location awareness
- Safety and security
- Modernize communications
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Capabilities
- Control and manage qualified employee, third-party, and remote access for repairing, maintaining, and servicing plant equipment over secure LAN/WAN/cloud
- Enable remote experts to collaborate and support onsite operations
- Provide secured access across multiple communication devices and platforms
- Deliver a self-service model to enable access during all planned and unplanned maintenance windows
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Business outcomes
- Increase worker productivity
- Reduce response and repair times
- Improve equipment utilization and reduce operating costs
- Enhance recruiting and development by attracting a digital technology skilled workforce
- Reduce repair-related costs
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Vendors
Technical overview
Cisco validated designs
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
Security Special offers below |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cloud security services Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Umbrella |
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Sustainable facility solutions
Build an intelligent plant to better manage energy, waste, and materials to achieve emissions and recycling objectives for a sustainable business while balancing social responsibility and regulatory compliance.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Global and local regulatory compliance goals
- High/variable energy costs
- Data complexity and interoperability across siloed systems
- Environmental recycling regulations
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Circular economy goals
- Efficient design cycles
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Business needs
- Reduce the cost of energy consumption
- Reduce carbon emissions and other air pollutants
- Manage waste (water, by-products, scrap, etc.)
- Enable pervasive energy monitoring with sensors and data collection systems
- Inventory monitoring for consumables, packaging, and inventory scrap
- Increased usage of recycled products (packaging materials, component parts, and consumables)
- Co-design and remote design collaboration
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Capabilities
- Connect and extend utilization of legacy equipment
- Increase asset tracking and utilization
- Centralized and automated environmental controls (using AI, software applications, and a single pane of glass)
- Monitor water, temperatures, and opened/closed doors for IT closets and carpeted locations (not replacing existing environment sensors)
- Smart buildings
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Business outcomes
- Overall reduction in resource utilization
- Improved asset utilization
- Lower energy costs
- Comply with global, national, and local regulations
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Stakeholders
- Chief sustainability officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- VP of supply chain
- Safety and regulatory manager
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Routing (SD-WAN) |
Viptela |
Meraki SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Hyperflex |
|
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1800 Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
|
Industrial asset vision |
Industrial Asset Vision (SaaS) LoRaWAN gateway |
|
|
Security Special offers below |
SecureX platform Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Industrial Security Appliance (ISA) 3000 Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Network Analytics |
|
|
Gateway and application management |
IoT Operations Dashboard Field Network Director (FND) |
|
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
|
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Plant floor collaboration
Provide reliable voice and video communications to the plant floor from any location at any time
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Enabling workforce productivity with digital capabilities
- Attract next-generation, digitally-capable workers
- Integrated, extended supply chains demand faster response times
- Industry 4.0: large amounts of data drive insights that increase productivity and reduce costs
- Transition to knowledge workers
- Reduced expertise in the workforce
- Ensure continuity of operations
-
Business needs
- Improve asset utilization
- Improve worker productivity
- Improve plant safety
- Provide a secure environment
- Reduce response and repair times
- Supply chain visibility
- Enhanced communications on the factory floor
- Safety and risk management
-
Capabilities
- Accelerate new product launch cycles and new product introductions (NPIs) with real-time collaboration
- Support remote maintenance and operations over secure collaboration cloud
- Provide easy, on-demand access to subject-matter experts
- Enable remote workforce training
- Virtual technologies and real-time engagement
- Provide real-time view into factory floor issues
- Secure access for WFH policy
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Business outcomes
- Improve service restoration times
- Improve mean time to repair (MTTR)
- Improvement in training effectiveness
- Reduce worker idle and travel time
- Improve process efficiency
- Improve productivity
- Business continuity and incident response during abnormal operating conditions
- Remote expert decision support
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- CIO
- CISO
- Plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Engineering/product development
- Supply chain/procurement
- Human resources
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 HazLoc Access Point Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Industrial Router (IR) 1101 Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch |
|
Security Special offers below |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Access by Duo Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Endpoint for iOS Umbrella |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Unified Communications Manager Webex |
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Digital workforce
Build a smart workplace environment for optimized communication and collaboration while improving employee productivity and asset utilization.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Modernize the workforce
- Migrate from waterfall to agile operations
- Increase capacity and factory performance
- Decrease factory downtime
- Wireless tooling and AGVs
- Connect factory to enterprise
-
Business needs
- Enable worker mobility--data, voice, video, and location
- Improve response through collaboration, dashboards, and automation
- Mobile applications (tablets/phones/RFID)
- Equipment/sensor telematics and real-time decision making
- Improve factory operations/OEE
-
Capabilities
- Connect and extend utilization of legacy equipment
- Increase asset tracking and utilization
- Secure vendor and guest access
- Replace cellular/licensed spectrum with VoIP
-
Business outcomes
- Improved equipment performance (OEE)
- Improved labor productivity (turns/labor hour)
- Reduced time to resolution (MTTR)
- Improved asset utilization
- Lower cabling and labor costs
- Increased productivity for specialized resources
-
Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
Technical overview
Demo: Workforce Enablement
See how the mean time to repair (MTTR) is reduced by connecting the digital workforce with improved interactions between plant workers and remote experts.
Cisco validated designs
- Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE)
- Networking and Security in Industrial Automation Environments
- Remote and Mobile Assets
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers below |
Unified Communications Manager Webex |
|
Augmented reality |
RealWear |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Industrial security foundation
Build a cybersecurity foundation with a robust industrial infrastructure providing OT visibility, macro/zone segmentation, zone access control, and threat detection and response, all with security intelligence feeding a security operations center (SOC).
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Manufacturing is nearly always in the top five of most-attacked industries
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Mitigate risk exposure for shareholders and SCC demands/GDPR
- Increase digitization/IoT initiatives
-
Business needs
- Minimize risk, liability, and downtime of unsecured legacy equipment
- Improve visibility
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Protection from intellectual property (IP) theft
-
Capabilities
- Embed security into factory workflows and operations
- Visibility of OT assets with passive and/or active discovery
- Protect legacy non-patchable and new assets
- Create segmentation across factories to avoid flat network incident proliferation
- Create macro-based segmentation protecting zones, lines, equipment, and devices
- Intrusion and malware protection
- Integration to SOC for timely threat investigation and response
- Provide secure remote access for servicing legacy machines, robots, and work cells
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Business outcomes
- Limit and contain security incidents within a zone
- Reduce lost production and labor hours
- Minimize property and equipment damages
- Avoid compliance violation penalties
- Improve worker and community safety
- Reduce costs to detect, respond, and fix data breaches
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Stakeholders
- Chief security officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Risk management
- Chief financial officer
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Remote access |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint |
|
Security operations center (SOC) |
SecureX platform Cyber Vision Secure Firewall Management Center |
|
Industrial demilitarized zone (IDMZ) |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Firewall |
|
Industrial zone |
Cyber Vision Secure Firewall Management Center (local if not in SOC) |
|
Cell/area zone |
Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch with Cyber Vision sensor IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway with Cyber Vision sensor Secure Firewall ISA 3000 Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks |
Special offers below
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Free trials and special offers
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Industrial security full spectrum
Extend foundational cybersecurity to provide greater granularity of policy enforcement and access control with software-defined microsegmentation for the industrial environment and increased cybersecurity visibility, threat detection, awareness, and response.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Manufacturing is nearly always in the top five of most-attacked industries
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Mitigate risk exposure for shareholders and SCC demands/GDPR
- Increase digitization/IoT initiatives
-
Business needs
- Minimize risk, liability, and downtime of unsecured new and legacy equipment
- Improve visibility
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Manage individual access to shop floor assets
- Protection from intellectual property (IP) theft
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Capabilities
- Embed security into factory workflows and operations
- Protect legacy non-patchable and new assets
- Visibility of OT assets with passive and/or active discovery
- Create segmentation across factories to avoid flat network incident proliferation
- Create macro or microsegmentation with software-defined policy to protect equipment, networks, and devices at the edge
- Allow users to define their level of risk by zone, cell, and/or device
- Integration to SOC for timely threat investigation and response
- Provide secure remote access for servicing legacy machines, robots, and work cells
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Business outcomes
- Limit and contain security incidents with granular policy control
- Reduce lost production and labor hours resulting from malicious individual attacks
- Minimize property and equipment damages
- Avoid compliance violation penalties
- Improve worker and community safety
- Reduce costs to detect, respond, and fix data breaches
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Stakeholders
- Chief security officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Risk management
- Chief financial officer
Technical overview
Cisco products
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Routing |
Integrated Services Router (ISR) Industrial Router (IR) 1101 SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 3000 Series Switches |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Remote access |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint |
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Security operations center (SOC) |
SecureX platform Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall Management Center Umbrella |
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Industrial demilitarized zone (IDMZ) |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Firewall |
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Industrial zone |
Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Network Analytics |
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Cell/area zone |
Catalyst Industrial Ethernet 3400 Rugged Series Switch with Cyber Vision sensor IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway with Cyber Vision sensor Secure Firewall ISA 3000 Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks |
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Health, safety, and environment
Monitor and enhance overall manufacturing operations for unsafe working conditions and practices. This is enabled by employee location and environmental conditions, enabling real-time operational insights and essential collaboration.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Automated manual processes, e.g., permit to work process
- Safety of employees, community, and environment
- Claims for worker's compensation are increasing in value and frequency
- Increased process and people safety
- Increasing regulatory requirements and compliance reporting
- Minimize or eliminate downtime due to accidents
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Business needs
- Viewing and recording activity in and around facilities
- Collecting information about where staff members are and what they are doing in and near facilities
- Understanding all visitor and supplier activity in and near facilities
- People, vehicle, and asset tracking
- Employee health and safety
- Workforce optimization by eliminating redundancy in staff assignments
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Capabilities
- Understanding presence, proximity, and location of assets, staff, suppliers, and visitors to facilities by leveraging video and wireless analytics
- Providing a safe and compliant environment for staff, visitors, and suppliers
- Monitoring for safe, in-policy usage of equipment and facilities
- Indicators for presence in risky environments
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Business outcomes
- Compliance with regulations and corporate policies
- Reduced costs associated with legal issues and worker's compensation
- Reduced operational costs
- Improvements in contact tracing, provisioning, and clearance time
- Improved visibility into real-time risk detection and personnel location
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Stakeholders
- HSE manager
- Facility manager
- Factory manager
- VP of supply chain
- Chief risk officer
- Chief security officer
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Video |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Data center |
Hyperflex |
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Security Special offers below |
Secure Access by Duo Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Endpoint for iOS |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Collaboration Special offers below |
Webex |
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Partnerships overview
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Partner success stories
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