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Cisco partners with FANUC on product to fix robots before they break





Cisco unveils a slew of new IoT products in the manufacturing, oil and gas, electricity and transportation industries

If you use robots to manufacturer your products, you worry about one of them breaking down and halting production. That costs time and money for your company.
Well, IT behemoth Cisco has a product for that. Cisco has partnered with Japanese robot maker FANUC on its Zero Downtime product that knows manufacturing robots need to be fixed before they break down, known as proactive maintenance.
Andy Denny, vice president at FANUC America Robot Operations, told Cisco's Global Editors Conference this week, that FANUC and Cisco have been working with GM on a pilot product to test the "zero down time" product. "The problem is automotive plants are running at full capacity and they don't have the ability to schedule for downtime….With Zero Downtime, it gives us the ability to predict a failure a few weeks before it happens. Then they can service the product before they have downtime."

Using Cisco's cloud and big data analytics, the FANUC Zero Downtime product proactively detects and informs of potential equipment or process problems before unexpected downtime occurs, allowing the maintenance issue to be addressed in a planned outage window.
But Cisco's not done. It also announced IoT products for oil and gas, electricity and transportation industries, as well as a portfolio of IoT security system products at the conference.
For example, Cisco has teamed with Schneider Electric on an IoT product that monitors oil and gas pipelines for leaks.
In addition, Cisco unveiled a substation security product designed to provide security to the power grid and enable utilities to comply with North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
The IT company announced a converged network architecture product that is based on the company's IoT system, which enables transit systems to improve automation, collaboration, video, cloud-to-fog agility and business intelligence.
In addition, Cisco unveiled its IoT System Security portfolio that includes a new security appliance, the ISA-3000 for application visibility, policy enforcement and threat defense, and a Fog Data Services security solution.
The portfolio enables the IoT network to act as a sensor and enforcer to provide security policy enforcement within router and switches. It also provides solutions for IoT physical security with video surveillance cameras, physical access control, and video surveillance manager with advanced security analytics.
For more:
- check out Cisco's news release
- see the FANUC release
- view the press conference video
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