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AI @ Rockwell Automation

Industrial automation and software
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Last updated
July 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Summary

  • Rockwell Automation has significantly scaled its AI adoption from initial anomaly detection in 2019 with the FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module to broad generative AI integration by 2024, including partnerships with Microsoft and NVIDIA, focusing on enhancing industrial automation productivity and digital transformation.
  • Key product innovations include the AI-powered Asset Risk Predictor by Fiix (Q3 2023), integration of NVIDIA Omniverse for autonomous factory-scale digital twins (Q4 2024), and leveraging AI for energy optimization, quality inspection, and skills gap solutions in manufacturing by 2025.
  • The company's AI strategy is centered on operational excellence, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and improving customer and workforce experience, emphasizing agentic and generative AI maturity with a strong external and internal use case focus.

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7 AI Use Cases at Rockwell Automation

Workforce Enablement
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
AI technologies help address manufacturing labor shortages and skills gaps by augmenting worker capabilities and automating routine tasks, supporting workforce productivity. [1]
Quality Inspection
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
Employing machine vision and AI, Rockwell Automation enhances production quality by detecting defects early, leading to higher yield and less product waste. [1]
Energy Optimization
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
AI analyses energy consumption patterns to optimize usage, helping manufacturers reduce their carbon footprint and operating costs while supporting sustainability goals. [1]
Autonomous Operations
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
By integrating NVIDIA Omniverse with Emulate3D digital twins, Rockwell powers autonomous factory-scale operations where AI models simulate and optimize processes without human intervention. [1]
Code Generation
2023
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Revenue
Collaborating with Microsoft, Rockwell Automation utilizes generative AI to assist in creating and customizing operational technology code, accelerating development and improving engineer productivity. [1]
Predictive Maintenance
2023
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
Through Fiix’s Asset Risk Predictor, Rockwell Automation employs AI to analyze asset data and predict maintenance needs, proactively reducing downtime and maintenance expenses. [1]
Anomaly Detection
2019
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Risk
Rockwell Automation uses AI algorithms within the FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module to automatically identify production anomalies, alerting operators and preventing potential quality or operational issues. [1]

Timeline

2025 Q4: no updates

2025 Q3

1 updates

Rockwell Automation promotes AI-driven sustainability initiatives globally, focusing on reducing emissions, minimizing waste, and optimizing resource utilization in manufacturing.

2025 Q2

3 updates

Introduced new AI machine vision technology to improve quality inspection processes, address labor shortages, and close manufacturing skills gaps; UK identified as a leader in smart manufacturing leveraging AI workforce enhancements.

2025 Q1

2 updates

Rockwell Automation highlighted seven ways AI/ML is leveraged in manufacturing, including energy consumption analysis for sustainability; expressed focus on transformative AI impact in Indian manufacturing.

2024 Q4

6 updates

Rockwell Automation reimagined its product portfolio incorporating AI features, partnered with Microsoft for advanced cloud and AI solutions, integrated NVIDIA Omniverse for AI-driven digital twins enabling autonomous operations, and emphasized AI's transformative manufacturing impact.

2024 Q3

1 updates

Focus on transforming industrial production data using AI-driven machine learning and predictive analytics to improve operational excellence, quality, and maintenance.

2024 Q2

3 updates

Rockwell partnered with NVIDIA to integrate AI into autonomous mobile robots and emphasized generative AI as the top technology investment priority driving the industrial AI revolution and smart manufacturing transformation.

2024 Q1

2 updates

Rockwell Automation and Microsoft deepened AI adoption to enhance industrial automation systems; also announced broader AI expansion with NVIDIA to accelerate digitalization and development of factories of the future.

2023 Q4

4 updates

Rockwell Automation expanded its partnership with Microsoft to leverage generative AI capabilities for industrial automation, launching tools to facilitate OT code creation, customization, and enhanced operational productivity.

2023 Q3

1 updates

Fiix by Rockwell Automation announced its first AI-powered predictive maintenance software, Asset Risk Predictor, advancing AI use in asset risk evaluation to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.

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2019 Q3

1 updates

Rockwell Automation released the FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module (previously Project Sherlock) to detect production anomalies using AI, marking early AI adoption in industrial production analytics.