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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 4:41:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    Invensys Process Systems' Foxboro business unit is making a limited-time offer to users of its I/A Series distributed control system to upgrade their communications backbone from standard Ethernet to a high-speed mesh network, a critical piece of infrastructure for Invensys's next-generation automation systems architecture. The incentive program, dubbed "Move to the Mesh," bundles the latest generation of field-mounted I/A Series control processors, Windows XP-based flat-panel LCD workstations, high-speed Ethernet switches, and software. It also includes Invensys's Address Translation Station (ATS) modules, which transfer and translate information flowing between an existing Ethernet Nodebus set up and the mesh network architecture. The company has historically offered similar limited-time offers to encourage customers to try new automation systems components. For example, in the early 1990s, Invensys established the Advantage upgrade program, which allowed customers to purchase new equipment at discounted rates in exchange for returning older equipment. [Click to continue] |
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