Machinery is expensive, and unfortunately won't last forever. To many, the first option would be to replace their gear drives or transmissions, but CBT partner Rexnord  provides an alternate solution. Rexnord offers a one-of-a-kind program that will renew, rebuild, and refurbish your equipment. Not only do they guarantee the renew cost will not exceed 75% of the cost to replace the drives, but they also offer warranties to back up their work for three years.

Today, you're expected to do more with less. To help meet your key performance indicators and profitability goals, a proven game plan is key. As a manufacturer, you require flexible, scalable asset management solutions for the entire plant floor. CBT and Rockwell Automation use a four-step process to create a customized asset management strategy that will help you avoid downtime, ease staffing burdens, and get back online quickly with minimal impact on production.

Approximately 3 million workers service equipment and face the greatest risk of injury if lockout-tagout is not properly implemented. Companies continue to struggle with this regulation - OSHA issued more than 3,000 lockout-tagout violations in 2015, making it the fifth-most cited violation. 

The lessons learned from the recent recession will likely last long after the recovery arrives - manufacturers must maintain lower operating budgets while increasing efficiency, and they need to optimize their operations to stay on the path to sustainable success. One way to address operational challenges is investing in a comprehensive asset-management strategy. By executing a well-planned, comprehensive approach, manufacturers can actually transform maintenance from an expense into a strategic, competitive asset. 

A Software Inventory Evaluation from Rockwell Automation and CBT provides a thorough analysis of your software, hardware, and servers. This gives you a clear picture of which Information Technology (IT) assets must be upgraded, which will work concurrently, how you can avoid migration risk and where costs can be reduced.

An Installed Base Evaluation is much more than simply counting parts. It's a thorough analysis of your critical plant assets and their condition. This service provides the knowledge needed to help you make data-driven decisions regarding the support and obsolescence management of your installed base assets. 

Executives at Cintas thought they had provided a safe workplace for their employees only to experience a worker fatality in March 2007. Eleazar Torres Gomez fell into a dryer at the Cintas facility in Tulsa, Okla., while trying to clear a jam of wet uniforms on a moving conveyor belt. Watch this 2010 Nightline video to learn more about the Cintas story and how OSHA is working to keep workers across the country safe. 

In light of the high profile breaches at Target, Home Depot, and Ashley Madison, businesses are taking a closer look at their network security and are finding it challenging to keep up with the increasing number of risks.

No single product, technology, or methodology can fully secure Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) applications.