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News Release from: SolutionsPT
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2007
Software alliance agreement for
Mitsubishi PLCs
Mitsubishi, the world's leading volume supplier of PLCs, will use Wonderware software with Mitsubishi hardware to deliver enhanced automation and information solutions to its customers worldwide
Mitsubishi Electric Corp of Japan and Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys - whose products are marketed and supported in the UK by Cheadle based Wonderware United Kingdom - has announced the signing of a new software alliance agreement Mitsubishi, the world's leading volume supplier of PLCs, intends to utilise Wonderware software in conjunction with Mitsubishi hardware to deliver enhanced automation and information solutions to its customers worldwide
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 17 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, Wonderware and Mitsubishi will cooperate on marketing activities that promote the customer value of the technical integration between their offerings.
"The software alliance with Mitsubishi, a highly respected global hardware supplier, is further validation of the Wonderware singular focus on providing the absolutely best industrial software in the world," said Mike Bradley, president of Wonderware: "Wonderware software already is used in more than 100,000 installations around the globe, and we continue to invest heavily in ensuring continued software innovation.
Wonderware focus is in the areas of open integration, visibility, analysis and the use of real-time information to power intelligent plant and business decisions across the broadest range of plant hardware, manufacturing software and business systems".
The agreement with the Mitsubishi automation division integrates popular Wonderware supervisory HMI and SCADA software solutions with Mitsubishi advanced e-Factory MES solutions and PLC offerings.
Wonderware software applications will include InTouch visualisation software, Wonderware Historian real-time and historical database, and advanced production and performance management applications built on the open, industry standards-based ArchestrA software architecture.
Mitsubishi and Wonderware are co-operating on both the technical integration of their respective offerings and joint marketing activities to promote combined solutions that are easy to use and engineer.
"Mitsubishi believes that this software alliance with Wonderware in combination with Mitsubishi controller and e-Factory solutions will enable the company to deliver superior total solutions to our customers," said Shinichi Amasaki, divisional manager of FA Systems Department at Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya Works.
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