Tag: Rockwell Automation

ThinManager’s Important Role in the 2026 State of Smart Manufacturing

Tom Jordan

Modern manufacturers’ most pressing initiatives have been steadily building within Rockwell Automation’s Annual State of Smart Manufacturing report for over a decade. This annual research looks at how smart manufacturing is evolving and provides insights from a wide range of industrial professionals. You can download your own copy here https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/capabilities/digital-transformation/state-of-smart-manufacturing.

While the annual report’s content applies to a range of Rockwell Automation portfolio solutions and capabilities, this article seeks to highlight the associations that relate to ThinManager specifically. I’ll keep it simple by pointing out the page number of the report and how ThinManager’s capabilities overlap with the information on that page. [...]

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ThinManager® and FactoryTalk® Optix™—Streamlining OT with Containers

Rylee Domonkos

Modern industrial control systems (ICS) face growing challenges, such as how to ensure consistent performance, minimize downtime, manage increasingly complex applications, the expansion of edge devices and central servers over distributed architecture, and maintain security— all without requiring advanced technical skills. In our previous post, we discussed how containers bundle applications with their dependencies for reliable, lightweight deployment across IT and OT environments. Now, let’s explore how Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix and ThinManager use containers to address these issues head-on, simplifying operations and empowering your team. [...]