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WingTip, Canary Labs and Kepware Introduce the hBOX Wireless Historian

 

The First Low Cost, High Performance, Store and Forward Historian Appliance

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 WingTip Introduces PlantMESH Manufacturing Ethernet Solution

PlantMESH Offers The First Truly Viable Replacement for Critical Wired Networks

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WingTip Introduces hBOX Historian Appliance

hbox_press_rel_website WingTip, Canary Labs and Kepware Introduce the hBOX Wireless Historian

The First Low Cost, High Performance, Store and Forward Historian Appliance

Richland, WA, Nov 15, 2011 – WingTip LLC, in combination with Canary Labs and Kepware Technologies, today introduced the hBOX, a wireless severe duty historian appliance. The hBOX is the first product on the market to combine low cost with enterprise class historian performance in a ready to use appliance. A member of the PlantMESH™ 802.11b/g/n Ethernet wireless mesh network system, the hBOX is ready for outdoor or indoor use.

The primary goal in developing the hBOX was to provide an operational historian appliance that could be located directly adjacent to the equipment being monitored, rather than using a centralized historian that attempts to capture data over a remote Wide Area Network (WAN) connection, according to David McKay, WingTip Director of PlantMESH Product Development.

"Most of the geographically distributed industries, such as PetroChem, Mining and Utilities need to collect data from remotely located equipment. In many cases, the connection to the remotely connected equipment is bandwidth limited and can have reliability issues," McKay said.

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WingTip Introduces PlantMESH Manufacturing Ethernet Solution

plantmesh-logo-244x172-front-page-rokstories WingTip Introduces PlantMESH Manufacturing Ethernet Solution

PlantMESH Offers The First Truly Viable Replacement for Critical Wired Networks

Richland, WA, Dec. 9, 2010 – WingTip LLC, a provider of manufacturing intelligence, industrial wireless Ethernet, and security products to manufacturing and process control companies, today announced its PlantMESH™ 802.11b/g/n Ethernet wireless mesh network system, which significantly changes the model for plant and outdoor networking, for the first time combining zero configuration with high speeds and a redundant, self-healing, highly secure and very scalable wireless network for both critical and non-critical networks.  

The primary goal in developing PlantMESH was to create a wireless mesh Ethernet system where installation and maintenance are readily accomplished without IT skill sets, according to David McKay, WingTip Director of Business Development.

“It has to work right out of the box because repairs or expansions should never require programming or assisted setup,” McKay said.  “Many industrial sites are remote and have harsh environments so it’s critical to make sure power is the only thing you need to start or expand a PlantMESH network.

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Nestle Purina Petcare Makes MDT AutoSave Corporate Standard

Nestle Purina Petcare Company Deploying MDT AutoSave As Corporate Standard for Change Management  

Alpharetta, Georgia - November 1, 2006-- MDT (Alpharetta, GA), the change management company, today announced that the Nestle Purina group is deploying MDT's AutoSave software as a group-wide standard for automation change management in manufacturing and process control.

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