BOSTON – November 13, 2026 -- Laminar has joined the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork as a Technology Partner, giving manufacturers that run Rockwell technology access to its inline fluid sensors for Clean-in-Place (CIP) and product changeover processes. Rockwell (NYSE: ROK) employs about 26,000 people in more than 100 countries as of fiscal year-end 2025, and Laminar says the partnership lets it extend its technology across Rockwell Automation environments.
Laminar's patented inline spectral sensors feed machine learning models that identify fluid conditions and transitions in real time. Connected to industrial control systems, the output supports AI-based process decisions in place of recipes and fixed timers, according to the company. Under that approach, a cleaning cycle would end when sensors detect a change in fluid state, not when a preset timer runs out.
Laminar says shorter, validated CIP cycles return time to production and support line utilization, while cutting the resources and waste tied to unnecessary cleaning. Laminar Chief Revenue Officer Sanjay Rajan says dynamic timers are the only way to run autonomous processes such as CIP and changeover. Vicky Bruce, Director, Customer Sustainability at Rockwell Automation, says the arrangement gives customers another way to reduce resource use in validated cleaning.
Neither company disclosed quantified cycle-time savings, pricing or commercial terms.
The two companies also plan to explore how process-state and cycle information could support visualization, analytics and higher-level manufacturing systems.