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Build a software-defined factory
Learn how Cisco helps Audi virtualize its shop floor to reduce hardware complexity and costs, enhance security, and accelerate innovation.
Empower your network to secure operations
Deploy OT security at scale with visibility, enforcement, and ZTNA gateway embedded into your network equipment.
Modernize and secure OT through IT
Elevate OT with IT expertise: boost efficiency, security, and innovation using Cisco’s industrial networking solutions.
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Analyst reports
- Why Modern Networks are Critical for AI-Ready Manufacturing Operations (PDF)
- Building Audi's EC4P Platform for Shop Floor Virtualization
- Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration in Modernizing Industrial Networks
- 2024 State of Industrial Networking
- 2024 State of Industrial Networking for Manufacturing
- 2026 State of Industrial AI Report for Manufacturing
- 2026 State of Industrial AI Report
Customer stories
- Cisco Live U.S. Center Stage: Factory of the future (video 35:26)
- Audi drives the future of manufacturing
- TheCube interview: Why Audi chose Cisco for smart manufacturing (video 21:01)
- Nissan modernizes its production operations with Cisco manufacturing solutions
- Unilin Group secures its operations with Cisco Cyber Vision and industrial switches
- Velta Technology partners with Cisco to help secure industrial operations at scale
Overviews
- Machine Vision in Industrial Automation Environments solution overview
- Dual Fabric Architecture for Virtualized Industrial Applications solution overview
- AI-Ready Industrial Networks solution overview (PDF)
- Reliable Wireless for Automation in Manufacturing solution overview
- Cisco Solutions for Smart Manufacturing solution overview
White papers
- Invisible AI and Cisco: Accelerating AI-Driven Machine Vision
- Basler and Cisco: Accelerating AI-Driven Machine Vision
- Cognex and Cisco: Accelerating AI-Driven Machine Vision
- Cisco and ThoughtForge: AI-Driven Real-Time Adaptive Robotics (PDF)
- Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs with Industrial Automation and Control Systems Virtualization
- Choose Wireless That Is Best-Fit and Not Force-Fit for Your Industrial Network
- Extending IT security to OT
- Empower your network to secure operations
- Remote and Mobile Assets solution brief (PDF)
- Zero-trust security for industrial operations
Videos
Webinars
- Architecting the Network for AI-Driven Manufacturing Operations
- Industrial Insider webinars
- CPwE—A Blueprint for Your Factory Network
- Cut Through the Noise: Find the Best Fit for Your Manufacturing Wireless Needs
- Protecting Industrial Networks from Cyber Threats: Where Do I Start?
- Sustainable Manufacturing—It's More than Just Turning Out the Lights
- What is ISA/IEC-62443-3-3 and How to Comply?
- All Cisco manufacturing webinars
Design guides
- Cisco DNA Center [now Cisco Catalyst Center] for Industrial Automation Design Guide
- Cisco DNA Center [now Cisco Catalyst Center] for Industrial Automation Implementation Guide
- Cisco DNA Center [now Cisco Catalyst Center] for Industrial Automation solution brief
- Industrial Automation Networks solution brief
- Industrial Automation—Reliable Wireless for Factory AGV/AMR Environments
- Industrial Security Solution Overview
- Networking and Security in Industrial Automation Design and Implementation Guide
- Secure Remote Access for OT (PDF)
- Securing Industrial Networks solutions brief
- All manufacturing Cisco Validated Designs
Related topics
- Modernize and secure OT through IT
- What is AI in manufacturing?
- What is IoT (Internet of Things)?
- What is industrial IoT (IIoT)?
- What is Industry 4.0?
- What is ISA/IEC-62443?
- How is OT different from IT?
- What is OT security?
- What is Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB)?
- What is microsegmentation?
- What is network security?
- What is network segmentation?
- What is zero-trust security?