Atlas Copco Launches Internet Technology in Tightening Systems for Car Assembly.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000 Atlas Copco Atlas Copco is a Swedish industrial company that was founded in 1873. It manufactures industrial tooling and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group, founded already in 1873, is a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Industrial Tools and Equipment has launched a range of innovative control systems for tightening tools, aimed primarily at assembly lines in the motor vehicle industry (MVI MVI Multivitamin MVI Multi-Vendor Import MVI Melt-Volume Index MVI Motor Vehicle Incident MVI MODIS Vegetation Index MVI Multiple Variable Inversion MVI Microsoft Virus Initiative MVI Multi-Vitamin Injection MVI Motion Video Instructions ). The new modular system, Power Focus 3000, was designed for communication and data management via the Internet, making monitoring and controls possible from anywhere in the world. "Thanks to the possibility to use Internet communication, you can monitor a car being assembled in Germany, online, from the U.S.," says Peter Moller, President of Atlas Atlas, in Greek mythology Atlas (ăt`ləs), in Greek mythology, a Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene and the brother of Prometheus. Copco's Industrial Tools and Equipment division. "We are pleased that three major car producers have already built new assembly plants based on this control system." The web interface of Power Focus 3000 makes it easy to view and collect data using the Internet infrastructure. Thus, car manufacturers can now gather information from production sites all over the world, simply using a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and an Internet connection. Until now, monitoring process performance was a manual operation, in which each system had to be monitored individually, on-site. "The ease of communication will also revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. after sales operations. Atlas Copco's service people can troubleshoot To find out why something does not work and to fix the problem. Troubleshooting a computer often requires determining whether the problem is due to malfunctioning hardware or buggy or out-of-date software. See debug. and correct problems via the Internet, and only need to send someone out on-site if absolutely necessary." Correct fastening of screws and bolts is critical for the safety of cars and trucks. Power Focus 3000 is a modular range of control systems for tightening tools on a car assembly line. The modularity opens new markets beyond the core MVI applications, both in the general industry and for other, more advanced, applications within car assembly. Atlas Copco Industrial Tools and Equipment, a division within the Atlas Copco Group, is a leading manufacturer of industrial power tools and assembly systems. As a leading global supplier the division has its main customer base in the motor vehicle industry, and the general engineering industry. Additional information is available at the website: www.atlascopco.com/tools/ ---------------------------- This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/11/07/20001107BIT00490/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/11/07/20001107BIT00490/bit0002.pdf |
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