Schneider Automation: IP-based factory control

Schneider Automation's (North Andover, MA) Transparent Factory control strategy, based on Internet technologies over Ethernet, permits production data from packaging machinery to be analyzed, formatted and delivered to databases, Web sites or e-mail.

Feb 28, 1999

Facilitates open communications in all of supplier's controls as well as partner products, eliminating barriers to information flow throughout the end-user's company.

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