Welcome to our latest issue of the Cisco Connected Manufacturing newsletter. It offers recent articles and resources to help you achieve operational excellence, with a focus on how you can seamlessly connect your factory to the enterprise, reduce costs, and bridge the security gap. Join the conversation through one of our social media channels (use the Get Connected icons down the left side), and let us know how you are meeting your operational and manufacturing challenges. Thanks for reading!

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ferrario franco
Da: Cisco <cisco@emessenger.cisco.com>
Inviato: giovedì 25 luglio 2013 16.02
A: Franco Ferrario
Oggetto: Welcome to Cisco Connected Manufacturing
Summer 2013 Issue 9
Best Practices &
Upcoming Events
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Best Practices
Nestle Reduces Business
Risk of Downtime
Wireless network visibility
increases the uptime of
business-critical production
processes for this global food
and beverage manufacturer.
Read more.
Pella Windows Improves
Customer Service
Find out how Pella improves
customer service and internal
collaboration here.
Hansgrohe Minimizes Risk
Hansgrohe partnered with
Cisco to expand to new
markets while minimizing risk
to its manufacturing
operations. Read more.
Upcoming Events
Rockwell Automation -
Automation Fair
Nov. 13-14, 2013
Houston, Texas
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Growth Innovation and
Leadership Summit - GIL
2013
Sept. 8-11, 2013
San Jose, California
More Information
Welcome to our latest issue of the Cisco Connected Manufacturing newsletter. It offers
recent articles and resources to help you achieve operational excellence, with a focus on how
you can seamlessly connect your factory to the enterprise, reduce costs, and bridge the
security gap.
Join the conversation through one of our social media channels (use the Get Connected icons
down the left side), and let us know how you are meeting your operational and manufacturing
challenges. Thanks for reading!
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Operational Excellence: Connecting Your Factory
to the Enterprise
Manufacturers now face many challenges, including how to gain better
visibility into their operations and supply chain while reducing overall costs.
According to the Aberdeen Group, 70 percent of manufacturing executives
are focusing on plant-floor data initiatives to promote operational and
business excellence, faster time to market, and immediate access to data
from machines on the factory floor. Greater network convergence and
connectivity can help you meet these goals and deliver business benefits
such as real-time visibility and remote access. But how do you build a
rugged plant-to-business network?
Read the whitepaper.
Click for an architectural overview.
Learn more here.
Business Agility in the Evolving Workforce
Bob Dean, Executive Director, Americas Manufacturing Industry, Cisco,
discusses the need for increased business agility to identify and manage
risk on a global basis, as technology evolves. “Business Agility in the
Evolving Workforce” was also featured on Manufacturing.net.

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The Adaptive Organization: Are You as Fast as
Your Market?
In a recent edition of the Manufacturing Leadership Journal, Angel Mendez,
Senior VP, Cisco Transformation, and Ron Ricci, VP, Cisco Corporate
Positioning, discuss the essential ingredients - speed, flexibility, and agility -
for becoming a modern and competitive organization. They also examine
why it is essential to make adaptability a core capability in an organization.
Read the full article here.
Bringing Flexibility to Manufacturing through
Mobile Collaboration
Jason Pates, Manufacturing Lead, Customer Business Transformation,
Cisco Consulting Services discussed how manufacturers are leveraging
their newly-connected workers, armed with smartphones and tablets, to
meet the ever-changing needs of their employees and customers. His
original post in the Cisco blog community was recently featured on
Industryweek.com.
Video: Advantages of Power over Ethernet (PoE)
How can Power over Ethernet help reduce your plant wiring costs, increase
device portability, and reduce total ownership costs?
View this video to find out.
Video: Improve Remote Monitoring
How do you enable machine-to-machine applications and efficiently extend
services to remote locations?
Watch this video to learn more.
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