1394 Trade Association to Merge with 1394Automation Group; Leaders in Industrial Applications Join Forces Advance FireWire.DALLAS -- The 1394 Trade Association announced today that it will merge with the 1394Automation Group, a European organization dedicated to the advancement of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394/FireWire standard in instrumentation and industrial applications. Effective by the end of the fourth quarter, the 1394Automation Group will coordinate its 1394 standards development, marketing and application development with the 1394 Trade Association. All group members will become 1394 TA members if they choose to do so. Founded in 2002, the 1394Automation group is comprised of European companies It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of companies from the countries in the European Union. that are leaders in robotics, vision systems, wafer inspection systems and other innovative products. Members include Basler Vision Technologies, Maxon Motor, SSD See solid state disk. Drives Antriebe, IMMS IMMS International Military Music Society IMMS Insurance Marketing and Management Services IMMS Integrated Maintenance Management System IMMS Information Model Management Service (service availability forum) , Nyquist, IFak, Wago, Lust, Stober Antriebstechnik, Fraunhofer Institut Produktionstechnologien (Fraunhofer IPT IPT - IP Telephony ), TNO TNO Tamarindo, Costa Rica (Airport code) TNO Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO Trans-Neptunian Object TNO The New Order (paramilitary street gang) TNO Trust No One , and the Fraunhofer Institut Photonische Mikrosysteme (Fraunhofer IPMS IPMS Fraunhofer-Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System (ITU-T) IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System IPMS Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS International Plastic Modelers Society ). Their objective has been to enable diverse industrial systems and automation products from different manufacturers to operate together using FireWire. "The 1394Automation organization has been an effective and innovative advocate of and for the 1394 standard in industrial and instrumentation applications since its inception," said James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association. "By merging with them, the 1394 Trade Association gains experience, expertise and a strong presence in the use of FireWire in highly innovative systems for the factory floor and production." "Joining forces in one structure establishes one global standard for industrial automation applications, and allows the two groups to work as closely as possible to advance 1394 in a new generation of systems used for product development, manufacturing, and distribution," said Gerwin Gewkes of Maxon Motor, a spokesman for the 1394Automation Group. "We have made significant progress in the industrial market and are pleased to be combining our growing resources with the 1394 Trade Association." FireWire is able to deliver excellent quality of service, long connection distances, peer-to-peer architecture, robust connectivity and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as , making it an ideal design choice for vision systems, robotics, motion control, and other industrial automation systems. The standard has been designed into products such as wafer inspection systems and high dynamic lathes, in addition to robots and cameras for industrial inspection. 1394 Trade Association Now in its 10th Year The 1394 Trade Association is a worldwide organization dedicated to the enhancement and proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of the IEEE 1394 multimedia standard, known commercially as FireWire and i.LINK. Founded in 1994, the 1394 TA supports a broad range of active standards development groups and a robust compliance and interoperability program. For more information, please visit www.1394ta.org. About 1394Automation Founded in 2002, the 1394Automation Group members are dedicated to the advancement of the 1394 standard in industrial automation systems. The members are able to communicate and to support the international spreading of this communication system for the cross-linking of IEEE 1394 automation devices with the designation FireWire automation for the benefit of the users. For more information, please visit www.1394automation.org. |
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