Cisco Connected Factory Solutions

Cisco introduced three new offerings in its Connected Factory portfolio, building out its Industrial IoT capabilities.

The company introduced a connected asset manager for IoT intelligence, which extracts data from a variety of sources and ties together multiple existing data threads on factory floors across legacy systems. Cisco also introduced the Industrial Network Director, designed to help operators take full control of the plant network. Finally, the company said its IE4000 switch family will support time-sensitive networking, protecting data and ensuring that mission-critical applications run smoothly on the network.