Emerson is a leading global technology, software, engineering and manufacturing company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Emersons history is defined by proactive leadership and a drive to protect our employees, communities, customers and industries. We take seriously the key role we have in supporting essential workers in life sciences, food and beverage, chemical, power, energy and other industries critical to modern life. OUR PURPOSE: We drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter and more sustainable. Healthier: Our expertise and technologies in life sciences, food and beverage, the cold chain and environmentally responsible home comfort are helping make it more possible than ever for humans to live comfortable and health-conscious lives. We make the world healthier by bringing critical new life -saving medicines to market faster with consistently high quality. Our cold chain technology enables our customers to safely keep perishable food and drugs at proper temperatures. Safer: We are helping customers reduce risk, protect employees and communities, and operate with increased reliability and certainty. We keep our customers safe with our location tracking software that provides real -time worker safety monitoring, potentially reducing more than 70 percent of common industrial incidents. Our new -to -the -world insulated hydraulic tools help keep linemen and electrical contractors protected against shocks and hazards. Smarter: Our advanced technologies have transformed the ways our customers operate, empowering improvements in efficiency, productivity, reliability and profitability. We make plants smarter by helping process engineers optimize operations with our digital twin software. Our ENERGY STAR -certified Sensi smart thermostat technology uses geo -fencing, remote access, and flexible scheduling to keep homeowners in the know and in control of their home comfort. More Sustainable: Our technologies and expertise are helping customers achieve sustainability targets, fulfill environmental regulations and implement responsible solutions. We promote sustainability with innovative software that enables the global power industry to seamlessly incorporate renewable energy sources to modernize and improve the reliability of the electric grid. Our energy efficient compressors enable our industry partners to comply with ever -rising government efficiency standards for air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Our Values: Integrity, Safety & Quality, Support our people, Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Collaboration, Innovation. Automation Solutions helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Commercial & Residential Solutions helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency, and create sustainable infrastructure. Emerson is well positioned to provide solutions up and down the technology value pyramid from devices, instruments and sensors, to control systems, to data management, analytics and services. We are reinforcing our commitment to software as a key value driver with our $2.4 billion software-enabled innovation portfolio. Automation Solutions: Operational Certainty: Our technology- and engineering based program is designed to help industrial companies achieve Top Quartile performance and recover more than $1 trillion* in operational losses globally. Project Certainty: We combine innovative technology and engineering to improve capital efficiency and boost project schedule reliabilityhelping to address the billions of dollars lost due to project excesses each year. Plantweb Digital Ecosystem: Our Plantweb digital ecosystem, the 2020 Edison Award winner in Innovative Services, provides a robust portfolio of hardware, software, intelligent devices and services for securely implementing the Industrial Internet of Things, with measurable business performance improvement. Commercial & Residential Solutions: Energy Efficiency & Sustainability: Weve designed our innovative Copeland compressors to help air conditioning and refrigeration OEMs reach new levels of efficiency and navigate a fast -evolving, global regulatory landscape. Human Health & Comfort: Our climate control and temperature monitoring technologies help ensure the safe transport and storage of critical vaccines and pharmaceuticals; and provide people with greater climate control of their indoor spaces at home and work. Food Quality & Safety: Our Copeland and Lumity cold chain solutions provide the food industry with sustainable refrigeration technologies, in -transit cargo tracking and onsite temperature management; our InSinkErator disposers enable convenient, hygienic and sustainable food waste management for homes and foodservice settings. Infrastructure Management, Productivity & Safety: Our RIDGID , Greenlee and Klauke brands provide professionals and do -it -yourselfers with quality, safety -minded mechanical, electrical and plumbing tools and digital features for both new construction and maintenance tasks. Skilled Trades: Emerson is investing in education and training initiatives to help address todays shortage of workers in skilled trades and to develop the workforce of the future. Our commitment to a better future leading through all market conditions, ensuring business continuity and driving long-term sustainability is something we are passionate about for Emerson and our customers. The accelerated growth and adoption of technology over the past two decades has transformed the ways Emerson and our industries operate. Simply stated, the events of 2020 have catapulted digital transformation technologies from basic measurement, monitoring, control, data management and optimization opportunities into critical investments for sustaining and future-proofing businesses. Q1 Evaluate the Purpose of Emerson. Q2 How do you think Emerson can play a vital role in protecting the People and Planet? Q3 Assess the specific initiatives of Emerson towards Innovation. Q4 Analyse the integrative thinking at Emerson at both the Automation Solutions and Commercial & Residential Solutions. Q5 Recommend and Justify a Strategic Road Map for Emerson for the year 2040