The following was published in the September 2000 issue of the A-B Journal . Posted with the permission of the publisher. Visions of Tomorrow Rockwell Science Center provides technologies of tomorrow for products of today.
Technology begins with a vision.
Take Ben Franklin, for instance. He had a vision that lightening was a form of electricity, hence the anecdote of good ole' Ben standing outside in a thunderstorm flying a kite with a key dangling from the string. As the story goes, lightning struck and Ben's vision became a reality, and a painful one at that. For Rockwell Automation, visions become a reality in the hills of Southern California. Driving into the neighborhood and up the tree-lined driveway, you would never suspect that a research center of that caliber is hiding on the top of the hill.