Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Design Hub

Rockwell Automation is launching its FactoryTalk Design Hub to provide automation design capabilities with a more simplified way to work powered by the cloud. Suitable for teams of all sizes, skillsets and locations, it can work smarter through enhanced collaboration, improved lifecycle management and on-demand access to cloud-based software. The result is increased design productivity, faster time to market and systems that cost less to build and maintain.

The hub is designed to improve development and deployment of automation projects for industrial organisations, while adhering to the latest security standards and information technology (IT) best practices. It enables teams to access designs on demand from any web browser with software that is up to date and flexibly scales users and compute capacity to meet project workload demands.

Five core solutions are available: FactoryTalk Design Studio, a cloud-native software product built from the ground up to improve system design efficiency; FactoryTalk Optix, a new addition to the Rockwell Automation visualisation range and the first cloud-enabled HMI product to be launched within FactoryTalk Design Hub; FactoryTalk Twin Studio, an end-to-end automation design solution where users can design, program, simulate, emulate and virtually commission in one cloud environment; FactoryTalk Vault, which provides secure, cloud-native centralised storage for manufacturing design teams, with version and access control; and FactoryTalk Remote Access, which enables secure connections to equipment, allowing teams to respond to needs faster and rapidly resolve production issues from anywhere.

FactoryTalk Design Hub and its core components will all be generally available by the beginning of 2023.