Wonderware's SuiteVoyager Industrial Web Portal Software is Honored With Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 Wonderware Corp.'s SuiteVoyager industrial Web portal See portal. software has been honored with its selection for an Editors' Choice Award from Control Engineering magazine. The award was presented to the company at ceremonies held at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel here Sunday evening, prior to the opening of the National Manufacturing Week Conference & Exposition at McCormick Place McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois. . The magazine's editors annually review all new product announcements from the previous year's editorial coverage and select the most significant innovations for their Editors' Choice Awards. This year's 40 award winners were selected from the hundreds of product announcements made in the print and online editions of the magazine. Winners received a crystal trophy at the awards reception and are featured in special coverage in Control Engineering's March issue. "We're pleased to receive this honor from Control Engineering because it recognizes the innovation of SuiteVoyager, not only as a product but in its role as a leading component in our advanced client technology (ACT) product strategy," said Janie West, Wonderware senior product marketing manager. "Our ACT program includes a series of multi-client access technologies, thin client products and other software tools. "SuiteVoyager supplies the first scalable, extensible and multi-lingual manufacturing information portal to the world of industrial automation, enabling companies to harness data from all of their plant real-time and historical data sources in a secure and consistent manner," West said. "SuiteVoyager 1.0 allows users to visualize plant floor information coming from Wonderware InTouch systems, InTouch and AlarmSuite Alarm databases, 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 servers and IndustrialSQL historian over the intranet/Internet, with simply a browser such as Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. 5+." The SuiteVoyager portal interface provides a secure framework, common navigation method and user-friendly GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. for delivering access to factory floor information. The portal interface offers users an organized, personalized view of factory floor information, with simple and easy to set-up architecture that requires no other knowledge of Web site construction or design. The architecture has been designed for scalability, extensibility and centralized administration. Customizable sections allow easy integration with Web sites, corporate applications, reports and resources. SuiteVoyager is one of the many Wonderware products that are on display at the National Manufacturing Week exposition. Wonderware has two exhibits at McCormick Place, in Booth 5531 in the National Industrial Automation hall and in Booth 2638 in the National Plant Engineering MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. & Management hall. About Wonderware Wonderware, an independent operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of the Invensys Software Systems (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) Division of Invensys plc, is the world's leading supplier. The company is the world's leading supplier of industrial automation software. Founded in 1987, the company pioneered the use of Microsoft Windows-based, human-machine-interface (HMI (Human Machine Interface) The user interface in a manufacturing or process control system. It provides a graphics-based visualization of an industrial control and monitoring system. ) automation software for manufacturing operation systems. Today, Wonderware's mission is to provide integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. suites that drive the customer's strategic, planning and operational decision-making based on real-time plant floor information. Recent corporate and product acquisitions have broadened Wonderware's market coverage to range from "sensor to supply chain." In addition to its HMI and manufacturing execution systems (MES (Manufacturing Execution Software) Software that provides real time access to plant activities that include equipment, labor, orders and inventory. An MES integrates the data with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems so that management has complete control of ) products, Wonderware offers leading enterprise asset management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) solutions as well as strategic consulting services. Wonderware is based in Irvine, Calif., and has regional sales and development offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Latin America and Asia to provide support to its network of more than 160 independent distributor offices. Wonderware has more than 180,000 successful software installations in more than 25,000 plants worldwide. For more information, visit the Wonderware home page at: http://www.wonderware.com. About Invensys Invensys plc is a global leader in the automation and controls industry. With its head office in London, it operates in all regions of the world through four focused divisions -- software systems, automation systems, power systems and control systems. With more than 90,000 employees, the company's products and services range from advanced control systems and networks for automating industrial plants and controlling the environments of buildings, to electronic devices and controls found in residential buildings and light commercial applications, plus complete power systems for the telecommunications and information technology industries. For more information, visit the Invensys home page at http://www.invensys.com. |
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