Gensym features new G2 release, solution products, and openness at Allen-Bradley Automation Fair.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 1995--Gensym Corp., leading provider of software for creating intelligent real-time systems, is featuring a new release of its flagship G2(r) product next week at the Allen-Bradley Automation Fair '95. Using G2, organizations can leverage the expert knowledge of their most talented personnel in intelligent applications that can improve quality, increase reliability, and lower operating costs. Gensym is also introducing the BatchDesign_Kit(tm), a new toolkit for batch process design. The Automation Fair will be held at the San Jose McEnrey Convention Center on November 8 and 9. Gensym is exhibiting in booth No. 902.

Along with its G2 family of software products, Gensym will be demonstrating new software bridges that connect G2 to standard industrial and desktop software systems through DDE and NetDDE. Joining Gensym in its booth will be Gensym Solution Partner Sverdrup. Sverdrup will be demonstrating its fermentation optimization toolkit developed using Gensym's G2 software.

Gensym's family of software products is built around G2, a graphical object-oriented environment for building and delivering intelligent real-time systems. G2 lets non-programmers create graphical models of their operations using click and connect object-oriented icons and sophisticated rules and procedures written in simple, if-then style English phrases. When software bridges link G2 applications to other systems, G2 can monitor, control, diagnose, and schedule on-line operations in real time. G2 can also provide operators with expert advice to help them focus on critical situations and enable them to make more well informed decisions quickly.

G2 4.0 Ships

Gensym has shipped its new 4.0 version of G2, the company's flagship product. In addition to the currently supported UNIX and OpenVMS platforms, Gensym is supporting G2 on Microsoft Windows NT for mission-critical applications. Gensym also supports Windows 3.1 for client applications and single-user off-line applications. The 4.0 release includes a number of significant feature enhancements improving G2's real-time performance, knowledge representation, graphical-user interface, and client/server capabilities. Pricing for G2 4.0 starts at $7,500 for a run-time license.

New G2 Connectivity Options - Bridges to DDE- and NetDDE-compliant systems

Gensym has announced the release of several new bridges to industry standard desktop and shop-floor software systems. The G2-@aGlance Bridge links G2 software with a variety of DDE-compliant systems using @aGlance/IT, a middleware product from Intuitive Technology Corp. Using the G2-@aGlance Bridge, G2 users can now have on-line connectivity to a new range of data historians, supervisory control systems, distributed control systems, man-machine interface software, and manufacturing execution systems. In addition, the bridge provides seamless access to popular desktop applications, such as spreadsheets and word processors. Gensym will be demonstrating this bridge linking G2 to Intellution's FIX DMACS in Gensym's booth next week.

Gensym has also announced a new software bridge to Wonderware's InTouch and NetDDE. The G2-NetDDE Bridge enables G2 to exchange data with Wonderware's man-machine interface (MMI) product for an integrated intelligent process management solution. The bridge was initially developed and implemented for a major Gensym customer in the food industry. Current FIX DMACS and InTouch users can add value to their applications by adding the layer of intelligent reasoning G2 provides.

BatchDesign_Kit Introduction

The Emission Reduction Research Center (ERRC), headquartered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, has released a beta version of its BatchDesign_Kit (BDK) to its consortium members. BDK is a graphical software toolkit created using G2 from Gensym. Earlier this year, it was announced that Gensym would be the exclusive sales and support channel for BDK. Pharmaceutical and specialty chemical plants will use BDK to reduce time-to-market for new or revamped processes, and to reduce environmental impact by optimizing batch process designs for minimal pollution. The BatchDesign_Kit project is funded by a consortium of eight leading chemical and pharmaceutical companies, including Bristol Myers-Squibb, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Sandoz, together with the U.S. Army and Navy, New Jersey Commission on Science Technology, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Science Foundation.

Solution Partners at A-B Fair - Sverdrup Facilities

Sverdrup Facilities is exhibiting with Gensym at the A-B Fair next week. Sverdrup is a total services organization that offers a full range of capabilities for the development, design, construction, and operation of capital facilities and their manufacturing processes. They specialize in providing client-focused solutions to the food and beverage, health sciences, and manufacturing industries. In Gensym's booth, #902, Sverdrup will demonstrate its fermentation optimization toolkit developed using Gensym's G2.

Founded in 1986, Gensym Corporation is the leading supplier of software products for developing and deploying intelligent real-time solutions for industrial, scientific, commercial, and government applications. With over 5,000 product licenses sold worldwide, Gensym serves 30 industrial sectors including the process industries, discrete manufacturing, telecommunications, environmental, power, and aerospace. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Gensym has regional offices in Atlanta, Boulder, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Genoa, Hong Kong, Houston, Leiden, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Rochester, San Francisco, Seoul, Sydney, Toronto, Stockholm, and Washington, D.C. Gensym's WWW home page can be found at http://www.gensym.com. -0-

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