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News Release from: Industrial Automation INSIDER | Subject: August issue
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 August 2007
ICS Triplex teases the competitors
The August issue of Insider from Andrew Bond has commentary on the latest version of the NI LabVIEW, a viewpoint on the latest MTL acquisition and notes how ICS Triplex is teasing their competitors
The Rockwell Automation recent GBP110m acquisition, ICS Triplex, is teasing competitors and commentators by announcing that it will unveil a "new groundbreaking safety and control system" at next month's Offshore Europe Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in Aberdeen, Scotland The new system is "designed to provide users with greater levels of choice and flexibility than is available in any current solution"
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company says that it is expected, presumably by itself, "to give ICS Triplex a significant competitive advantage in its sector".
That ought to be enough to get potential users, not to mention other vendors and journalists, flocking to the ICS Triplex stand but just in case it isn't, the company has engaged TV celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to shake their hands in the "ICS Triplex restaurant".
Significant step forward? Without giving anything further away, the company says the new system, which it describes as a "safety and control solution" is the culmination of years of research and development aimed at addressing the short-comings of existing safety and control systems and claims that, as a consequence, it "represents a significant step forward for the industry, offering features and benefits currently unavailable in any single solution on the market".
ICS Triplex Technology managing director Peter Hall said launching the new system at Offshore Europe would allow the company to show visitors "exactly how this solution can make a huge difference to the way they do business".
News reported from one of those ICS Triplex competitors demonstrates that safety isn't just a preoccupation of the process industries, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt reveals that HIMatrix safety controllers have been incorporated into the world's first 'Mountain Glider' at the Walibi amusement park near Brussels in Belgium.
The ride takes up to 800 passengers each hour to the top of a 55m starting tower from where they 'fly' across the park through curves, glides and corkscrews, in the process experiencing accelerations of up to 3g.
The August issue of Insider, in its tenth Anniversary year, has the usual mix of commentary and reports on all aspects of the automation industry.
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