News & Announcements

Are you a Rockwell Automation System Integrator partner and considering the Information Solutions capability?  

The new Partner Technical Enablement Consultants team (PTEC) focuses on helping partners become fluent in our Information Solutions portfolio. Our PTEC team is revolutionizing enablement by moving from the traditional approach of one-time training to a continuous enablement practice. 

 From mentoring initiatives to First Project Support, the team delivers value to our partners by helping them understand more about our solutions through discussion on use cases, value proposition, technical architectures, how to deploy, how to implement and always looking to deliver the best content to help our partners to become more autonomous and reduce the time to value – and all of these initiatives to differentiate the value of our partnership with you - #BETTERTOGETHER.  

 Learn more about the PTEC team by watching this video 

 For more information about the Partner Technical Enablement Consultants team, contact your Rockwell Automation System Integrator Account Manager. 

We are excited to announce the launch of a new bundled offering of Vuforia Work Instructions to our OEM Partner Community! This new offering pairs Vuforia Expert Capture and Vuforia Instruct into one low-cost developer bundle for OEMs. The Vuforia Work Instructions Bundle provides OEM Partners the tools to build Augmented Reality experiences that can improve workforce productivity, efficiency, and safety for their End Customers.  

Paired with our new Asset-based license model, OEM Partners now have a simple and scalable path to build their own annual recurring revenue model as each machine is delivered to their customers. With Augmented Reality, work instructions become handsfree and are delivered in real time where assembly or field service take place. Knowledge from experienced workers is easily captured and shared with new workers and service technicians. Remote expertise can be delivered to workers no matter where they are in the world. Training manuals and videos become a thing of the past.  

To learn more about this new and exciting offering for our OEM Community, please talk with your local Rockwell Automation Account Manager or Authorized Distributor.   

As a result of customer feedback and user research, a new optimized and consolidated Partner Locator experience has launched on RockwellAutomation.com  

Improvements include:  

-New UI for partner listing and detail pages 
-Increased visibility to Value-Add, Specialty Distributors and Silver Level OEM Partners 
-Improvements to the search, filtering and location detection functionality within the locator 
-Additional tracking and analytic capabilities to better understand the leads that are being driven to our partners from the locator 

Go to the Partner Locator   

When you visit the Portal, please confirm that your company information is up to date. You can review this information by logging into the Partner Portal and go to “Manage Resources”.  

It is important to keep primary, secondary and executive contact information up to date as we send important communications throughout the year.  

This information also appears on the Rockwell Automation Locator under your company’s listing, depending on your partner level benefits. You can maximize the potential of your listing by keeping this overview current and aligned with your business.   
Log in to the Partner Portal to review your information  

Check out some recently published partner case studies: 

BID Group – More Efficient Controls Testing – for Less Cost 

Pearson Packaging System - Best Practices for Digital Twin Software 

The Pages Group Innovates to Meet Customer Demand | Rockwell Automation 

OEM Gold Partner - Ecolab Uses Data to Improve Uptime and Quality 

New Sky Energy Changes the Game for Biogas  

Please confirm that your company information is up to date in the Partner Portal. You can review this information by logging into the Partner Portal and go to “Manage Resources”.  

It is important to keep primary, secondary and executive contact information up to date as we send important communications throughout the year.  

This information also appears on the Rockwell Automation Locator under your company’s listing, depending on your partner level benefits. You can maximize the potential of your listing by keeping this overview current and aligned with your business.   
Log in to the Partner Portal to review your information  

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO GLOBAL SYSTEM INTEGRATOR & OEM PARTNERS:

As commercial program participants, Rockwell Automation requires our System Integrator and OEM partners to sign a Program Participation Agreement each year. This agreement highlights both the expectation of the partner, as well as Rockwell Automation. Historically, the process has been manual and time-consuming for both our partners and Rockwell Automation. Effective immediately, we have automated this process to simplify it for all of us. Starting today, any new partner that is accepted into either the System Integrator or OEM programs will automatically receive an email directing them to a link where they can click a button to sign their Participation Agreement. This signed document will automatically be saved in the partner’s documents folder for immediate access in the future. In addition, it will be available to any authorized Rockwell Automation employee.

For those of you who are already a partner in our programs, there is no action for you to take provided your designated "Executive Contact" record in PRM is up to date and accurate. On or around October 1, 2022, every System Integrator & OEM currently active in our programs will receive an automated email notification instructing you where to go to sign your participation agreement. The agreement can be printed or saved for review. Once signed, the document will be stored in your documents folder for review in the future. The email notification will go to the person you have designated as your “Executive Contact” so please be sure to review your contacts in PRM to make sure they are correct.

Remember, our commercial programs require 3 designated roles to be registered in PRM. It is acceptable to have the same individual for all 3 roles if you prefer. The required roles are Executive Contact, Main Contact, and Secondary Contact. If you need help confirming the individuals, you have designated for each role please reach out to your Rockwell Automation salesperson or your Authorized Distributor.

Thank you for your support,
Commercial Program Administration Team
Monday, August 22, 2022

Rockwell Automation is pleased to announce a new subscription offering of Emulate3D & FactoryTalk Logix Echo curated for the OEM community. Special Pricing is available via a promotional bundle. New accounts can also sign up for an introductory workshop for $299 (1 hour per day for 5 days plus access to the license for 3 weeks.  

Please contact to your local sales person for more information on special pricing and bundled offerings. 

Fran Wlodarczyk, senior vice president, Intelligent Devices (ITD), has announced his plan to retire at the beginning of the next calendar year after more than 35 years with the company. His replacement is Tessa Myers effective June 6^th. Please see full press release here.

After 16 years with Rockwell Automation, Ernest Nicolas, senior vice president and Chief Supply Chain Officer is leaving Rockwell Automation. His last day is June 3rd and we will notify you of his replacement in the next newsletter. 

 

We are excited to launch an OEM Webinar Series where on a quarterly basis, we will host a 60-minute discussion dedicated to providing our Global OEM community important information and insights around Rockwell Automation products, technology, solutions, and other relevant-for-you topics. All webinars are scheduled for 10AM CT.

Register Here!

Save the Dates:
Monday, October 3 
Monday, January 9
Monday, April 3
Monday, July 10


New OEM Program Technical and Commercial Training Available!  
We’ve created a quick resource for OEM partners to better understand the technical and commercial benefits available to you as a member of the OEM Partner Program and how to access them.