Wonderware and Mitsubishi sign cooperation agreement

July 2007 News

Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, have announced the signing of a new software alliance agreement. Mitsubishi, which claims to be the world's leading volume supplier of PLCs, will combine Wonderware software with its own hardware to deliver enhanced automation and information solutions worldwide. Additionally, the two companies will cooperate on the technical integration of their respective offerings and on joint marketing activities to promote the customer value of the combined solutions that are easy to use and engineer.

The agreement with the Japanese company's automation division integrates Wonderware's popular supervisory HMI and scada software solutions with Mitsubishi's e-F@ctory MES solutions and PLC offerings.

"The software alliance validates our focus on providing the absolutely best industrial software in the world," said Mike Bradley Sr., president of Wonderware. "Our software is already used in more than 100 000 installations around the globe and we continue to invest heavily in ensuring continued software innovation. Our focus is in the areas of open integration, visibility, analysis and the use of realtime information to power intelligent plant and business decisions across the broadest range of plant hardware, manufacturing software and business systems."

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