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Entivity, A Phoenix Contact Company, Announces Think & Do® Studio Release 6.2
With
Peer-to-Peer Communication for Windows CE Controllers
CHICAGO,
IL - March 5, 2001 - Entivity, A Phoenix Contact Company, a leading supplier of PC-based
automation and control software, will release Think & Do®
StudioTM 6.2 at the National Manufacturing
week show in Chicago this week. The Think & Do® Studio product
integrates advanced control and information technology with Microsoft
Visio 2000, to give users a complete automation software solution
with built-in enterprise connectivity and productivity analysis
capabilities. Release 6.2 adds real time peer-to-peer communications
for Windows CE-based controllers, as well as provides support for
additional I/O devices.
Entivity's Think
& Do® Studio dramatically accelerates automation implementation
and provides transparent scalability across the full range of Microsoft
Windows 2000, NTE and CE platforms.
"We added peer-to-peer
communications for Windows CE devices in Studio Release 6.2 in response
to the needs of our customers in semiconductor equipment and other
OEM market segments," said Andy McMillan, Vice President of Marketing
for Entivity. "Entivity customers in several OEM markets are building
distributed control solutions on Windows CE platforms, and direct
communications among controllers gives them added system design
flexibility."
Commenting on
the Think & Do® Studio product, Joel Frauenheim, Microsoft
Visio Product Manager said "We are excited to see a product taking
full advantage of the power and flexibility of the Microsoft Visio
platform to bring a standard drawing environment to the automation
industry. The combination of automation control and visualization
functionality with Microsoft Visio's extensive drawing capabilities
provides users with a common visual platform that spans the whole
manufacturing enterprise."
Entivity is
the first supplier to utilize the Microsoft Visio drawing tools
and graphics platform to give uses a familiar environment for all
automation drawings. As Andy Hoover, Microsoft Director of Industry
Marketing said, "With over 4 million users, Microsoft Visio is already
a standard for office and engineering drawing applications. Entivity
is a leader in making Microsoft Technologies the standard drawing
environment for automation control and HMI."
Kevin Prouty,
Research Director, Manufacturing Strategies at AMR Research classifies
Entivity's Think & Do® Studio as a Unified Development Environment
(UDE). "Think & Do® Studio utilizes the Microsoft Visio
environment and marks the continuing evolution combining control
engineering and the IT world," said Prouty. "Because Studio also
incorporates an HMI and can develop and store libraries of not only
control logic but various diagrams such as IT networks and P&ID,
Studio takes a significant step in the direction of a Unified Development
Environment (UDE)."
About Entivity
Entivity products
and services address project collaboration, automation software
solutions, asset utilization and information connectivity throughout
extended manufacturing enterprises. For more information, visit
the Entivity web site at www.entivity.com
or call 800-722-6875.
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