Cisco at HANNOVER MESSE 2024

Driving Digital Resilience in Manufacturing

Edge-to-enterprise visibility is a key approach to responding swiftly to security threats, maintaining operational uptime, optimizing production, and capitalizing on new opportunities.

In an era marked by untested supply chain disruptions and increasingly sophisticated threat actors, the stakes for security, IT, and plant operations have never been higher. Splunk will demonstrate how you can get equipped with the insights to proactively address unplanned outages, extend protection beyond the corporate network, and accelerate your digital transformation journey.​
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Experience first-hand the power of building digital resilience against ransomware, IP theft, and supply chain attacks. We will showcase the breadth of possibilities through centralized, real-time monitoring of telemetry data from a distributed 3D printer farm. Gain valuable insights into the effective gathering, analysis, and extraction of actionable intelligence from across your organization.

Achieve Net Zero

Cisco Sustainability Solutions for Industry

Sustainability is a top priority for industry customers and many organizations are setting net zero goals as part of their ESG strategy. Cisco has set a goal of becoming net zero by 2040, and we are also helping our customers in their sustainability journey by leveraging our state-of-the-art technologies. In this sustainability VR experience, we are showcasing Cisco’s sustainability solutions for industries including manufacturing, utilities, and transportation. Additional information is showcased on solution architecture, products, and partners.

Workforce Productivity

Empower the Frontline with Cisco Expert on Demand

Solve critical industry challenges with Webex Expert on Demand. Get on-demand expertise to:

• Manufacturing: Reduce downtime, optimize production, and improve quality
• Energy/Utilities: Boost grid reliability, optimize energy usage, and enhance field service
• Transportation: Improve fleet efficiency, streamline logistics, and ensure safety compliance

Production Uptime with SAP

Cisco Observability: AiOps Bridging Industry & IT

Manufacturers are growing their IT infrastructure with new technologies like SaaS and IoT, and this complex environment has created further disruptions to production applications and processes that open new vulnerabilities within the attack surface. Cisco Full Stack Observability transforms manufacturing infrastructure, enables product line digitization, and keeps production lines running with improved application availability, enhanced digital performance, and cost-effective cloud-based business operations. 

• Use round-the-clock ABAP-code-based monitoring to increase SAP uptime and reduce support staff workload
• Leverage application security solutions for private cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments including business risk scores that help prioritize security issues based on the likelihood of exploitation and potential impact on your business
• Monitor availability, performance, and usage of IoT and mobile devices to gain visibility and increase uptime
• Use application value stream mapping to show how applications work together in your production workflows

Asset Tracking & Mobility

Cisco Spaces & Multi-Access Industrial Wireless

Historically, wireless technology in many industrial settings has been limited to less-than-critical sensing applications and connecting IT devices. With the rapid digitization of industrial operations and ever-more-mobile applications, the need for high-throughput, scalable, reliable, broad wireless connectivity is rising. Wireless connectivity technologies have evolved to support bandwidth-intensive worker productivity applications, reliable mobility for critical assets, and increased data collection from all areas of the plant.  All of which significantly boost operational efficiencies and production uptime.

In this demo, we will focus on Cisco's high-throughput, highly reliable technologies, namely Wi-Fi, 5G, LoRaWAN, and Cisco® Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB), as they could be valid alternatives in many use cases and making a clear differentiation between them is essential. Included will be Cisco Spaces (asset tracking software).

Use cases covered will be:

• Using Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), robots (AMRs), and other mobile equipment on the factory floor
• Providing reliable voice, video, collaboration, and Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) tools to the factory workforce
• Controlling rotating and conveyance systems
• Downloading software and data to manufactured products
• Supporting mobile Human-Machine Interface devices (HMIs) and handheld tooling
• Tracking Inventory Assets across the supply chain

Simplify with Cisco 5G

Achieve Digital Transformation at Scale

Private 5G can help enable low latency, high bandwidth, and seamless secure wireless connectivity in use cases such as private 5G can power robotics, autonomous guided vehicles (AGV), scanners, virtual reality (VR) remote devices, and drive closed-loop manufacturing, including sensors and automated pickup of 3D-printed components.

Secure Industrial Networks

OT Visibility, Zero Trust, and Remote Access

The upcoming NIS2 mandate is forcing customers to understand and manage their cybersecurity risk. The demo helps customers understand how they can use Cisco Cyber Vision to understand their cybersecurity risk - what vulnerabilities are on my network, what devices are communicating to the Internet, what are my internal communication patterns - and share that context with Identity Services Engine to mitigate those risks. The demo also showcases Secure Equipment Access (SEA) where customers can learn how Zero Trust Network Access can be used to securely bring remote users into the operational network, and mitigate the risk from external threat actors.

Transforming Manufacturing: Unlocking Industry 4.0 with Cloud Networking

In the dynamic landscape of modern manufacturing, Industry 4.0 is driven by the transformative power of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technology. Our session explored the pivotal role of cloud networking in this shift, offering manufacturers key capabilities for success.

Speaker: Adriana Soto Ruiz Barroeta​, Customer Solutions Manager​, Cisco

From Analog to Augmented: Empowering the Future Workforce

Watch our panel session exploring the future of the industrial workforce. Rapid industrial changes are driven by automation, AI, and digitalization, transforming workflows, and requiring a workforce with new skills and tools. Our panel discusses Augmented Reality (AR), collaborative platforms, and streamlined processes to bridge skill gaps and enhance workforce potential.  ​

Speakers: Parthasarathi Kar, Senior Product Manager, Cisco, Russel Fadel, CEO and Founder, Augmentir, George Sims, Sr. Director of Product Management Strategy,  RealWear, Filipe Rodrigues, 5G Lead Architect, Cisco