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At 100, Foxboro Reinvents Around Its Customers

Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:00:00 AM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:As part of its redesigned go-to-market strategy - emphasizing services, solutions, and information management - Invensys Process Systems has formed an Industry Solutions group that analyzes all of the technology across every IPS company to figure out how components of each can be delivered as an end-to-end solution.
Keywords:Invensys Process Systems, IPS, InFusion
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In 1908, E.H. and B.B. Bristol opened up a small instrument company in Foxboro, MA, helping Ford Motor Co. produce the Model T on an assembly line - a major innovation at that time. One hundred years later, that tiny Bristol brothers start-up is still very much alive, operating as a business unit of Invensys Process Systems that provides field devices and control system architectures for oil refineries, pulp and paper mills, and even pharmaceutical companies.

"Since the Bristol brothers opened the factory door in 1908, we continue to invent, refine, and advance production in the industrial world," said Paulett Eberhart, IPS president and CEO, during a centennial birthday celebration that took place at the company's original Foxboro facility in June.

In addition to reflecting on the past, Eberhart provided the 1,000 or so employees in attendance with a glimpse into the future. "As we evolve, we have to continually consider new and better ways to bring tools to the market," she said.

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