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MES products from Rockwell meet manufacturers' immediate needs while laying the foundation for future autonomous operations
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced a series of strategic innovations to its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) portfolio, focused on flexibility, scalability and resiliency.
Rockwell's elastic MES portfolio is a cloud-native, interoperable MES platform designed to unify operations across operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). This elastic, modular approach accelerates time to value, simplifies operations and allows manufacturers to scale capabilities as needed – empowering progress toward autonomous operations.
Traditional MES solutions often operate in silos, limiting visibility across OT and IT. According to Rockwell's 2025 State of Smart Manufacturing Report, 21% of manufacturing leaders cite integration challenges as a top internal obstacle. Rockwell's elastic MES eliminates these barriers with a single, unified platform that connects the manufacturing lifecycle - from materials and inventory to production and tooling. Embedded analytics, AI-driven insights and connected worker technology keep production agile, visible and optimized.
"Legacy MES systems, while foundational, have become barriers to agility in an era defined by rapid change," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC, a manufacturing research service. "This future lies in modern, flexible and scalable MES platforms that enable manufacturers to reconfigure processes on demand, integrate seamlessly across the digital thread, and accelerate innovation. This evolution marks a critical step in moving the industry toward a truly adaptive, future-ready operations."
"Our elastic MES strategy and investments drive a fundamental shift in how manufacturers connect and optimize their operations," said Anthony Murphy, vice president of product management, Rockwell Automation. "DIY and disparate systems increase cost, risk and complexity. Rockwell's elastic MES unifies critical applications across OT and IT on a cloud-native, resilient architecture that grows with our customers."
Rockwell's Elastic MES Solutions
Rockwell's MES solutions serve as the digital backbone of modern manufacturing, connecting software, hardware and services into a unified OT/IT environment. Designed for interoperability and scalability, the platform combines the power of the cloud with the resilience of the edge.
Rockwell's MES portfolio includes the following elastic qualities:
- Purpose-built for manufacturing: Tailored for discrete, hybrid, and regulated industries, ensuring compliance, traceability, and security
- Comprehensive capabilities: A multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) environment with embedded AI technology to guide manufacturers along their autonomous operations journey
- Unified OT/IT integration: Seamless connectivity delivers holistic visibility and stronger business resiliency
- Extensible by design: A secure, resilient platform designed to integrate with existing systems and leverage emerging technologies like AI
- Resilient edge-to-cloud deployment: Flexible options from cloud-only to hybrid configurations to fit each site's operational needs
"Plex gives us flexibility to grow our digital infrastructure at our own pace," says David Rudofsky, chief financial officer, Wonton Food Inc. "We selected what worked for us initially and there are various capabilities we can consider for future expansion, like material tracking and production efficiency. For industries like food and beverage, Rockwell's purpose-built MES offerings simplify compliance for SQF and customer audits and reduce implementation time by eliminating the need for heavy customization. Our operations benefit from a secure and connected foundation that encourages continuous improvement."
Operational Impact and Business Outcomes
Manufacturers worldwide are already realizing the benefits of Rockwell's MES solutions:
- A stationery, lighter, and shaver manufacturer leveraged Plex MES to unlock scalable capabilities and gain real-time production visibility.
- A baking mix manufacturer automated WIP management, and improved performance across finance and operations with Plex MES.
- A pharmaceutical developer implemented FactoryTalk® PharmaSuite® to create a digital manufacturing core and enhance efficiency.
Rockwell's MES portfolio delivers intelligent guidance, predictive insights and operational agility, helping manufacturers streamline production and evolve toward autonomous operations.
To learn more about Rockwell's elastic MES solutions, visit the Plex website.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries as of fiscal year end 2025. To learn more about how we are bringing Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.
MES products from Rockwell meet manufacturers' immediate needs while laying the foundation for future autonomous operations
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced a series of strategic innovations to its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) portfolio, focused on flexibility, scalability and resiliency.
Rockwell's elastic MES portfolio is a cloud-native, interoperable MES platform designed to unify operations across operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). This elastic, modular approach accelerates time to value, simplifies operations and allows manufacturers to scale capabilities as needed – empowering progress toward autonomous operations.
Traditional MES solutions often operate in silos, limiting visibility across OT and IT. According to Rockwell's 2025 State of Smart Manufacturing Report, 21% of manufacturing leaders cite integration challenges as a top internal obstacle. Rockwell's elastic MES eliminates these barriers with a single, unified platform that connects the manufacturing lifecycle - from materials and inventory to production and tooling. Embedded analytics, AI-driven insights and connected worker technology keep production agile, visible and optimized.
"Legacy MES systems, while foundational, have become barriers to agility in an era defined by rapid change," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC, a manufacturing research service. "This future lies in modern, flexible and scalable MES platforms that enable manufacturers to reconfigure processes on demand, integrate seamlessly across the digital thread, and accelerate innovation. This evolution marks a critical step in moving the industry toward a truly adaptive, future-ready operations."
"Our elastic MES strategy and investments drive a fundamental shift in how manufacturers connect and optimize their operations," said Anthony Murphy, vice president of product management, Rockwell Automation. "DIY and disparate systems increase cost, risk and complexity. Rockwell's elastic MES unifies critical applications across OT and IT on a cloud-native, resilient architecture that grows with our customers."
Rockwell's Elastic MES Solutions
Rockwell's MES solutions serve as the digital backbone of modern manufacturing, connecting software, hardware and services into a unified OT/IT environment. Designed for interoperability and scalability, the platform combines the power of the cloud with the resilience of the edge.
Rockwell's MES portfolio includes the following elastic qualities:
- Purpose-built for manufacturing: Tailored for discrete, hybrid, and regulated industries, ensuring compliance, traceability, and security
- Comprehensive capabilities: A multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) environment with embedded AI technology to guide manufacturers along their autonomous operations journey
- Unified OT/IT integration: Seamless connectivity delivers holistic visibility and stronger business resiliency
- Extensible by design: A secure, resilient platform designed to integrate with existing systems and leverage emerging technologies like AI
- Resilient edge-to-cloud deployment: Flexible options from cloud-only to hybrid configurations to fit each site's operational needs
"Plex gives us flexibility to grow our digital infrastructure at our own pace," says David Rudofsky, chief financial officer, Wonton Food Inc. "We selected what worked for us initially and there are various capabilities we can consider for future expansion, like material tracking and production efficiency. For industries like food and beverage, Rockwell's purpose-built MES offerings simplify compliance for SQF and customer audits and reduce implementation time by eliminating the need for heavy customization. Our operations benefit from a secure and connected foundation that encourages continuous improvement."
Operational Impact and Business Outcomes
Manufacturers worldwide are already realizing the benefits of Rockwell's MES solutions:
- A stationery, lighter, and shaver manufacturer leveraged Plex MES to unlock scalable capabilities and gain real-time production visibility.
- A baking mix manufacturer automated WIP management, and improved performance across finance and operations with Plex MES.
- A pharmaceutical developer implemented FactoryTalk® PharmaSuite® to create a digital manufacturing core and enhance efficiency.
Rockwell's MES portfolio delivers intelligent guidance, predictive insights and operational agility, helping manufacturers streamline production and evolve toward autonomous operations.
To learn more about Rockwell's elastic MES solutions, visit the Plex website.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries as of fiscal year end 2025. To learn more about how we are bringing Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.
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ROCKWELL AUTOMATION LEADS NEW ERA OF MANUFACTURING WITH ELASTIC MES OFFERINGS, UNIFYING OT AND IT ON CLOUD-BASED, RESILIENT PLATFORM
SHENZHEN, China, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- X Square Robot, an emerging leader in embodied AI and humanoid robotics, announced the successful conclusion of the world's first Embodied AI Developers Conference (EAIDC 2026), the first global gathering dedicated specifically to developers building embodied AI systems.
EAIDC 2026 marks one of the first large-scale industry gatherings dedicated to embodied AI, bringing together leading researchers, developers, and technology companies to accelerate the transition of intelligent systems from laboratory research to real-world applications. The event features live robotic demonstrations, a national-level hackathon, and discussions between academia and industry focused on deployment, commercialization, and ecosystem development.
EAIDC 2026, the world's first embodied intelligence developer competition, is designed to accelerate real-world innovation through hands-on collaboration and deployment-focused challenges.
X Square Robot hosted EAIDC as part of a broader effort to contribute to the global embodied AI ecosystem and expand its role in shaping the future of intelligent systems. The competition also introduced a set of "three firsts" designed to bring embodied AI development closer to real-world conditions, including real-robot task execution, continuous system evaluation, and full end-to-end deployment workflows. Task design focused on four core capability areas — grasping and placement, language understanding, fine manipulation, and long-horizon decision-making — with participants completing challenges such as ring placement, instruction-based fruit sorting, cable plugging, and word spelling. A full-variable evaluation approach required teams to operate without preset parameters, using randomized real-world environments to test true adaptability and model robustness.
The company is operating at a time of growing global momentum around humanoid robotics, as advances in physical AI and vision-language-action (VLA) models begin to unlock more complex, real-world capabilities. The company has raised approximately $280 million to date, with backing from investors including Alibaba, ByteDance, Meituan, HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), and other leading technology and venture firms.
X Square Robot is focused on developing general-purpose humanoid systems capable of operating in dynamic, unstructured environments. Its technology centers on embodied foundation models designed to enable robots to perceive, adapt, and perform tasks across a range of real-world scenarios.
The company has begun generating early revenue from deployments across sectors including education, hospitality, and elder care, and is exploring broader applications in household services through collaborations such as its partnership with 58.com. The company has also been active in advancing technical research and industry engagement, including participation in global AI forums and academic communities such as CVPR, reflecting its commitment to contributing to both the development and commercialization of embodied intelligence.
These efforts reflect a broader industry shift toward applying AI-driven robotics to address labor shortages and operational challenges in both consumer and commercial environments.
By hosting EAIDC 2026, X Square Robot is engaging with a growing global ecosystem of developers and industry stakeholders working to define the next generation of intelligent systems. The company views this as part of a broader strategy to expand its international presence and establish itself as a global innovator in embodied AI.
For more information, visit https://x2robot.com/.
About X Square Robot
X Square Robot is a global innovator in embodied artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems. The company develops integrated software and hardware platforms that enable robots to perceive, reason, and act safely in complex environments. Partnering with leading universities and technology institutions, X Square Robot delivers scalable AI infrastructure and establishes open benchmarks to drive worldwide progress in intelligent robotics.
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X Square Robot Hosts Inaugural EAIDC 2026, Advancing Real-World Deployment of Embodied AI
