Rockwell Automation's Chairman & CEO, Blake Moret - Oil and Gas Leaders magazine, Sep2019

E D I T O R ‘ S N O T E
In this day and age, more
digital natives are popping up
and becoming key
contributors in the workforce,
especially in the industrial
sector. Armed with stateof-the-art
technology and the
foreknowledge of rising and
falling trends, these tech-savvy
individuals are ready to
interpret the sea of data that
can come their way.
Spearheading this campaign
of digitally transforming the
industrial environment in order
to create a more connected
enterprise is Blake Moret, the
CEO and Chairman of
Rockwell Automation, the
world’s largest company
dedicated to industrial
automation and information
solutions.
Joining the company in 1985
as a sales trainee, Moret
worked his way up the ladder
and pioneered many
innovations in his leadership.
It is this personal experience
that he learned the three major
trends driving today’s
industrial environment—the
rise of the middle class in
emerging economies, the
growing need of more
digital natives and techsavvy
workers who can quickly
take the reins of any tool and
system-dependent task, and
globalization itself.
In the face of these three
trends, Moret and his
company’s strategy into
achieving a connected enterprise
is to allow themselves to
take real-time operational data,
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Chairman and CEO of
Rockwell Automation
transform them into insights,
and unlock another level of
opportunity i.e. a digital
transformation. This
Connected Enterprise
approach will help his
company, and other
companies get to market
faster, lower total cost of
ownership, reduce unplanned
downtime, and manage
enterprise risk and
compliance.
While this digital
transformation is integral for
companies to exceed
previously established key
performance indicators, the
data itself are nothing more
than numbers. Without
competent decision-making,
forethought, and a means to
translate the data into a more
comprehensible format, then
making customers more
connected, productive,
intelligent, and competitive
would indeed be a challenge.
As time moves forward, so too
must the tactics of individuals
like Moret and affiliations like
Rockwell Automation, whose
core revolves around
connecting people and
devices, studying and
interpreting data, creating and
polishing systems, utilizing
advanced analytics, and
optimizing processes.
Ultimately, this is at the heart
of Moret and his organization.
It is this objective that pushes
them to help machine builders
and end users become more
effective and productive in
their work.
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