Rockwell Automation and Panduit have expanded their long-standing Encompass product-referencing relationship and have formed a strategic alliance.

Together, they are driving integrated solutions that help companies reduce risk, improve reliability, and successfully implement EtherNet/IP solutions and architectures.

The two companies are focused on providing optimised physical network infrastructure solutions, effective collaboration between automation and IT and integrated solutions and services for customers globally. Panduit and Rockwell Automation also plan to work with companies, like Cisco, to help customers seamlessly integrate logical architectures to physical deployment from initial design, maintenance and operations throughout the entire enterprise.

“A strong alignment of Panduit and Rockwell Automation technologies and architectures simplify network design and integration for our common customers,” says Panduit president Tom Donovan.

“Our combined capabilities reduce risk, operational costs, and time-to-market.

“Our mutual customers need a robust, secure and future-ready Ethernet physical infrastructure for their industrial environments,” says Rockwell Automation global sales and marketing senior vice president John McDermott.

“Together, we can now offer comprehensive logical to physical plantwide infrastructure solutions and architectures leveraging EtherNet/IP to provide the level of performance, manageability and security required for today’s industrial networks.”

Initial emphasis of the collaboration will be placed on integration of physical implementation, employing best practices and industry standards, providing education and services to facilitate manufacturing and IT convergence and enabling successful architecture deployment.