Woodward and Sixth Dimension Form Alliance and Demonstrate Power of Networked Generation Technologies.Business Editors & Technology Writers ROCKFORD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001 Woodward Governor Company The Woodward Governor Company is the world's oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control solutions for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. (Nasdaq: WGOV) has joined Sixth Dimension in a program to demonstrate the capabilities of a comprehensive "networked generation" control system for electric power generation equipment. Based on a combination of Sixth Dimension's Intelligent Network service delivery infrastructure and a comprehensive line of digital generator system controls from Industrial Controls, a Woodward business, the networked generation approach allows energy managers to manage their power generation, power consumption, and maintenance operations much more efficiently. Equipment owners and energy providers will also be prepared to network many generating units together -- to participate in large-scale power marketing, generate new revenue streams, and lower their energy costs significantly. Demonstration now operating in the Woodward Engine Lab A demonstration site has been set up at the Woodward Engine Lab in Fort Collins, where a bank of EGCP-2 generator set controls are tied into Sixth Dimension's fully managed, digital network. Through any Internet 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. , Woodward engineers can issue commands to remotely dispatch A dispatch or dispatches can refer to:
"By equipping e·quip tr.v. e·quipped, e·quip·ping, e·quips 1. a. To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. b. our controls to communicate via the Sixth Dimension network, our customers will be able to build enormous value into their generating equipment," said Paul Johnson Paul Johnson may refer to:
"Woodward and Sixth Dimension are a perfect match," said Mark Schneider, VP Marketing and Business Development at Sixth Dimension, "because Woodward's vision of `networked generation' is similar to ours. The key to fast growth in distributed generation Distributed generation generates electricity from many small energy sources. It has also been called also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy or is flexible, real-time access for everyone involved -- utility companies, independent energy producers and aggregators, emissions monitors, operations and maintenance service providers . . . and the energy customer. This is what Woodward controls can offer with built-in connectivity to the 6D Intelligent Network." About Woodward (www.woodward.com) Industrial Controls, a Woodward business based in Fort Collins, Colorado The City of Fort Collins, a home rule municipality situated on the Cache la Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, is the county seat and most populous city in Larimer County, Colorado. , is a world leader in turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. and engine controls. The business provides innovative controls and fuel delivery systems that are used by engine and turbine manufacturers worldwide to make their products cleaner and more efficient. Headquartered in Rockford, Illinois Rockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Rockford is often referred to as "The Forest City" and is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2000 U.S. , and serving global markets from locations worldwide, Woodward's products and services are used in the aerospace, power generation, oil and gas processing, and transportation markets. About Sixth Dimension (www.sixthdimension.com) Sixth Dimension, also based in Fort Collins, Colorado, has developed a unique service-delivery infrastructure called the Intelligent Network. Fully managed and Internet-based, the network provides a platform for energy services companies, solutions providers, and their customers to monitor energy use, remotely control on-site generation and curtailable loads, and receive vital pricing information. Network architecture based on distributed intelligence The placing of processing capability in terminals and other peripheral devices. Intelligent terminals handle screen layouts, data entry validation and other pre-processing steps. Intelligence placed into disk drives and other peripherals relieves the central computer from routine tasks. ensures extremely high levels of reliability and security. With a "device neutral" design, virtually any equipment can be networked, including engine- and turbine-driven generators, fuel cells and microturbines. |
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