Last week in Germany, we attended the Hannover Messe event, where the hot topics were three new products officially announced at the show:

• Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) for deterministic Ethernet is now available on our IE4000 switch to support a single unified architecture on the plant floor.
• Industrial Network Director is a network management software tool specifically built for operations technology (OT) teams and gives them full visibility into their network and automation devices.
• Connected Asset Manager (CAM) for IoT Intelligence has the unique functionality of being able to extract data from multiple resources to support reporting and analytics in a simple-to-use dashboard. It helps make data an actionable resource for better decision making.

From northern Germany to the beach

This week, these "hot topics" will continue their momentum in a truly warm climate, as the Cisco manufacturing team heads to Ft. Lauderdale for the annual CSIA Executive Conference, an eventfocused on bringing together technology partners and industrial system integrators. Cisco is a member of CSIA, along with our industry partners Panduit and Rockwell Automation, which will have teams in Ft. Lauderdale (and also attended Cisco at Hannover Messe).

Across various booths at CSIA, Panduit, Rockwell Automation, and Cisco will have representatives available to discuss how to build a secure, connected factory, improve asset management, and improve worker safety and tracking through a connected workforce based on the validated Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPWE) architecture.

We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Lauderdale and working with you on digital transformation together atbooth 56.

To learn more about our new Connected Factory solutions, take a look at our Industrie 4.0 eBook.

We also invite you to explore the following manufacturing topics:

• Cisco Connected Factory
• IT OT Convergence
• Factory Security