Honeywell Micro Switch selects Nematron as its Supplier for its PC Control Effort.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1996--(NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on SmallCap: NEMA NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association NEMA National Emergency Management Agency NEMA National Emergency Management Association NEMA Nottingham East Midlands Airport (UK) ) Nematron Corporation and Honeywell's Micro Switch Division announced at a press conference today that Nematron will be Honeywell's full-line hardware supplier for PC-based controls. Honeywell will brand label several models of Nematron's hardware to integrate a total industrial control solution. These industrial PCs and Industrial Control Computers (ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce ) will be used with the Smart Distributed System See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. , which was developed by Honeywell. This selection of Nematron's hardware line by Honeywell confirms the move toward open architecture control solutions enabled by PC-based control and intelligent I/O systems. Nematron is the leading manufacturer for PC-based softlogic control systems and Industrial Workstations in the industrial automation market. The Smart Distributed System is a fully integrated PC-based control solution backed by comprehensive service and global support from Honeywell. In another agreement between Honeywell and Nematron, Nematron announced it will develop drivers for NemaSoft's FloPro PC-based softlogic control software to integrate with the Smart Distributed System I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output network. Frank G. Logan, III, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Nematron, said at the press conference today, "We feel it is important for our FloPro product to support new factory network architectures like the Smart Distributed System. The combination of FloPro and the Smart Distributed System is a powerful platform for control." Nematron designs and manufactures PC-based industrial automation products that include software for direct machine control, process visualization and data acquisition. In addition, the Company produces related hardware products that leverage or support its software. Nematron products cover a broad spectrum from low end operator interface to Windows NT control software, including PowerVIEW, AutoNet and FloPro. Nematron pioneered the operator interface segment of factory automation in 1983 with the introduction of industrial workstations and operator interface software products embedded in ruggedized electronic workstation packaging. Nematron has an installed base of over 60,000 systems worldwide. NOTE TO EDITORS: There is an "at" symbol between "michelle.everson" and "nematron.com" below. That symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Nematron Corporation Michelle Everson, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Specialist 313/994-0591 ext. 216 michelle.everson@nematron.com |
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