Entivity Announces a Major New Partnership!

Entivity and Phoenix Contact form new partnership:

Chicago, IL - October 22, 2002 Entivity, Inc. and Phoenix Contact Inc. today announced a major partnership involving joint product development, marketing and sales for PC-based control solutions. The partnership agreement brings together the strength of Entivity's automation software and Phoenix Contact's hardware solutions

Click Here to view the entire press release or you can visit the following sites to learn more: www.entivity.com and www.phoenixcon.com/automation.

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Entivity Studio 7.1 Released!!

Studio 7.1 includes:

• ProjectSync. An option that supports full Multi-developer projects
• A new Interbus-S driver with Auto-Discover
• Modified Momentum driver with Auto-Discover
• Improved installation options

Click here to learn more about VLC features!!!

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Read the entire story here!

Gisco, Inc, designs, engineers, manufactures, installs and services continuous casting equipment for reactive polymer materials. Gisco casting equipment is consistantly at the cutting edge of cast polymer technology.

Gisco has achieved this level of excellence with the help of Entivity Software.

Entivity is used to control many aspects of their cast polymer production lines, where PLCs were the preferred method of control.

"Entivity software controls the entire process: material loading, recipes, metering, conveyors, and curing ovens."

- Jerry Gisko, President and Founder

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ESS ZONE

By registering your software licenses now, you will gain access

to the newest Entivity updates in the ESS ZONE!!!

The support and update program for Steeplechase and Think & Do customers is now called ESS:

Entivity Support Subscription

The program includes unlimited technical support, updates, software improvement modules, replacement licenses (if lost or stolen) and web access to update and driver downloads.

For more information, check out the ESS section on the Entivity web site!

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Power up at eAnswer!!!

SST DeviceNet Configurator

Entivity VLC comes with an example project that acts as a DeviceNet discovery tool.

You can find this project in the VLC example directory or you can launch if from the Start Menu Program Folder.

The project comes with an associated HMI which draws the DeviceNet network, the devices, the device configuration, their running status, and the live I/O images. You only need to setup the correct infomation about the SST board.

This project is useful to exercise the network, find how specific devices need to be configured in a real project, and offers a good example on how to use the special functions offered by the driver.

Functions implemented in the DeviceNet driver allows the user to set/get attributes, define devices and establish I/O and/or Explicit Message connections.

Got questions? we've got eAnswer.

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Visio & Studio Integration

When working with complex Visio documents, files sizes can become quite large. The size of the files can be reduced in two manners. Each is described below.

1. Using Entivity SmartShapes: Using native Visio shapes and Stencil objects (ex. Entivity SmartShapes) are much more efficient then advanced graphics like JPEG, GIFF, and TIFF. If you do need a variety of specific graphic generated outside of Visio on the same page, then combining then to a single image reduces the documents size.

2. Removing Visio Previews: Visio stores previews for all pages and background pages in the document. You can remove this preview information by going to File-Properties and selece NONE for the previews. The only downside to this action, is that Entivity ProjectCenter will not be able to show the preview for Charts and Screens in which this action was performed. The upside is a significant reduction in file size for complex documents.

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Visit eAnswer on the Entivity Web Site!

The Entivity eAnswer system is a browser-based knowledgebase system that empowers Entivity's customers to find the information that they need, when they need it. eAnswer is available from the Support page on the Entivity Website.

All customers have had access to the eAnswer system since it's inception at the end of 1998. eAnswer has had almost 128,000 hits and almost 24,000 specific searches since then, helping customers across the globe find answers to issues even when their local time zones and holidays make contact difficult.

eAnswer is also an ideal way to submit technical support questions. When someone posts a new question here, emails are dispatched immediately to all Entivity support engineers notifying them of a new incident. It is not uncommon to receive responses to incidents posted late at night, weekends, and holidays.

Find out more about eAnswer here!

For step-by-step how-to info on these and other topics, visit eAnswer on the Entivity website.

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