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Boeing Phantom Works uses Omnitrol Networks' Open Application Network Appliance Mountain View, CA: May 1, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks, today announced that its open application network appliance (the OMNITROL) had been selected by Boeing Phantom Works, the advanced research and development group of Boeing, to accelerate the integration of manufacturing edge devices and back-end applications. Boeing Phantom Works’ Advanced Manufacturing Research and Development (AMR&D) team in St Louis, which focuses on providing engineering, information and manufacturing technologies for use by all Boeing business units, selected the OMNITROL as a development tool to evaluate aspects of edge device controllers. Specifically, the OMNITROL is used to explore Domain Specific Languages, process simulation, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Application Level Events (ALE), and Java Business Integration (JBI). The OMNITROL provides Boeing’s AMR&D team with a real-time integration platform to bring the work-floor information to manufacturing back-end applications without the cost and complexity of middleware-based approaches. The team has built a benchmark for edge devices based on Omnitrol’s unique Edge Application Service Engine (EASE™) and Service Description Language (SDL). The Edge Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and powerful device adaptation capabilities allow Boeing to quickly integrate manufacturing applications with a large variety of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), RFID and barcode readers, WiFi RTLS, laser projection systems, sensors, and motes. “Our current focus is on lean manufacturing, common systems, and ergonomics. To prepare for the next step function improvement in aircraft manufacturing, the Advanced Manufacturing Research & Development organization is exploring network enabled manufacturing,” said Bryan Dods, Boeing Phantom Works Senior Manager of Aerostructures Manufacturing. “Omnitrol Networks helps us create such an environment by providing the capability to collect, analyze, correlate, and act upon edge device and applications data in a highly adaptive, real-time environment”. This new breed of real-time operational visibility that integrates the new generation of sensor and RFID technology provides traceability and reconciliation to optimize operations, reduces inefficiencies and expenses and improves overall customer service on the factory-floor and throughout the production and supply-chain. “We are extremely pleased to be participating in Boeing’s advanced manufacturing projects,” said Raj Saksena CEO of Omnitrol Networks. “Our work with Boeing represents a significant milestone in the development of the OMNITROL as a powerful edge network appliance that removes the complexity of middleware solutions”. The intelligent OMNITROL network enables not only a new level of visibility, but also new opportunities for automation and decision making for operations management throughout the manufacturing shop-floor and the suppliers network. About Omnitrol Networks, Inc. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented edge platform solutions for the emerging extended-Internet (X-Internet) deployment market. The company’s OMNITROL appliance and EASE™ edge application and services engine software have pioneered the market for “Always On” real-time enterprise visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL’s unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry’s most flexible and reliable means to deploy distributed application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, California. Additional information about OMNITROL Network’s products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. We have moved to our new offices: 2025 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA, 94043 xxx OMNITROL is a trademark of Omnitrol Networks Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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Omnitrol Networks and Croop-LaFrance team up to provide RFID-based tracking solution for aerospace and defense industries. Mountain View, CA (April 18, 2008) - Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has entered a strategic partnership with Croop-LaFrance Inc., a premier IT solutions provider serving both the Commercial and Government Sectors. With this partnership the two companies are delivering complete end-to-end, EPC-based traceability and tracking solutions for the aerospace and defense industries. The companies’ joint traceability/tracking solutions advance the use of RFID technologies to enhance supply chain, MRO, Logistics, and manufacturing processes. Among the advantages is the creation of a real time “sense and respond” network that enhances Global Asset Tracking, Item Level Track & Trace, Part Pedigree, Warranty Tracking, and MR&O Work-In-Progress (WIP) Tracking and Alerting. At the center of the partnership announced today is Omnitrol Networks’ OMNITROL™ Asset and WIP Tracking and Traceability Solutions. The solution evolves existing manual and barcode tracking to EPC (Electronic Product Code) based tags automatically from existing shop floor business processes. The real-time visibility further improves efficiencies in plant operations, lean manufacturing, MRO and logistics disciplines like Just-In-Time and Kanban. This integrated solution extends customer operations into a global tracking infrastructure to track items throughout the supply-chain. Together, Omnitrol Networks and Croop-LaFrance will target key accounts for the OMNITROL Asset and WIP solutions. Croop-LaFrance has 13-plus years of delivering solutions to the commercial sector for such companies as Xerox, Kodak and Bausch & Lomb. The company has made significant inroads into the defense sector, and has current contracts with the USAF, US Army and others. Croop is leveraging its experience from leading commercial customers to help clients in the government sector. A full-service eSystem and network consulting, design, implementation and management consulting company, Croop-LaFrance is 8A certified and currently holds a GSA contract with the federal government. “The aerospace and defense industries are constantly looking for better ways to manage complexity. Among their goals are the creation of ‘sense and respond’ supply chains that help warfighters increase availability of their weapons systems to ensure mission readiness. Omnitrol Networks’ award-winning track and trace infrastructure solution is a proven, scalable and elegant approach to help existing ERP, MRO, and logistical systems achieve these goals in the aerospace and defense sectors,” said David Croop, CEO of Croop-LaFrance Inc. “Croop-LaFrance has a stellar record of deploying solutions based on best-of-breed technologies,” noted Raj Saksena, president and CEO of Omnitrol Networks. “Its exceptional expertise, combined with our proven EPC-global asset tracking and traceability solution, will result in a powerful resource for aerospace and defense Industries seeking to solve and scale the challenges faced in maintaining complete traceability of their assets.” Omnitrol Networks’ OMNITROL integrates with EPC tags, sensors, RFID readers, mobile handhelds, and PLC equipment to provide real-time intelligence to existing manufacturing, MRO and logistics business processes. The OMNITROL network delivers a scalable real-time location, visibility and automated asset pedigree capture infrastructure. The simple, versatile and all-in-one systems substantially lowers the total cost of ownership while providing powerful services such as workflow service creation and emulation, back-end integration, including complete device and service management and web-based provisioning. About Omnitrol Networks, Inc. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of complete EPC-based business application solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for “Always On” real-time operational visibility, traceability and automation solutions. The OMNITROL’s unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable Auto-ID application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks’ products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com.
About Croop-LaFrance Croop-LaFrance is a privately held, Native American Certified 8A Small Business company headquartered in Rochester, NY. Croop-LaFrance has quickly evolved into one of the premier Information Technology service providers supporting both the U.S. Government and commercial Fortune 500 clients.
xxx OMNITROL is a trademark of Omnitrol Networks Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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Omnitrol Networks announces the industry's first real-time work-in-process visibility appliance Mountain View, CA: July 3, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced today the release of the industry's first real-time work-in-process appliance to help manufacturers identify and eliminate waste in the production processes. The OMNITROL work-in-process (WIP) solution provides manufacturers with completely automated and contact-less real-time operational visibility to track work orders with manufacturing traceability on parts and personnel improving overall production efficiency and quality. The solution is based on the award-winning OMNITROL appliance and unique Edge Application Service Engine (EASEâ„¢)which enables rapid deployment of operational intelligence solutions. The OMNITROL appliance fully integrates a variety of edge devices and sensor technologies, Wi-Fi handhelds, RFID, RTLS and PLC controllers to deliver such business process automation. This new breed of real-time operational intelligence embodied by real-time edge applications that integrate the new generation of sensor and RFID technology provides visibility, traceability, compliance and reconciliation to optimize operations, reduces inefficiencies and expenses, and improves overall customer service on the factory-floor and throughout the production and supply-chain processes. "Manufacturers are adopting lean principles as a sustainable competitive advantage," said David Orain, Vice-President Marketing at Omnitrol Networks. "The OMNITROL WIP solution represents the industry's first appliance-based offer for the manufacturing industry to identify sources of waste and reduce costs in the production process." The OMNITROL WIP solution helps reduce the cost of inventory, waiting time, unnecessary movements, and defects by giving managers real-time visibility on production cycle-times, asset and employee utilization, work-order and product pedigree. The appliance approach dramatically reduces the cost of implementing and deploying RFID-based solutions for the manufacturing industry. Omnitrol Networks has just received the 2007 product innovation award for best RFID middleware from Frost and Sullivan. About Omnitrol Networks, Inc. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web based operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company with their corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about OMNITROL Network's products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. |
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Frost & Sullivan Acclaims Omnitrol Networks for Successfully Converging Applications based Networking Delivering Real-Time Enterprise Services for the Wireless and RFID Markets Palo Alto, CA: June 25, 2007 - Based on its recent analysis of the North American RFID middleware and software market, Frost & Sullivan has presented Omnitrol Networks with the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation. The Award recognizes the OMNITROL, the company's application network appliance solution that delivers real-time operational visibility and distributed asset tracking services managing wireless devices, RFID data and readers. The OMNITROL edgeware appliance further integrates secure WiFi LAN router and sensor network capability with a powerful business services application platform evolving the enterprise into a real-time intelligent edge network. "The OMNITROL was designed as a Telco-grade network appliance with as many applications and standard protocol options as possible, giving it unique versatility compared to other products in the market," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Brendon Ouimette. While it incorporates RFID device, and data management, the OMNITROL appliance focuses on leveraging on multi-application networking. The OMNITROL has three significant value-adds for end users: ease of deployment, versatility, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). These features address three of the most critical challenges in RFID end-user adoption. The appliance has the advantage of being easy to program with automatic application federation for scalability: once it has been configured, installing and deploying the solution across the enterprise is a quick and low-cost process. The solution can simultaneously manage a number of data sources from different wireless and sensor technologies applying real-time application intelligence and control from a single platform. These attributes and others help to lower the TCO by integrating a number of features in a single product, at a lower overall cost, by providing a common platform and services architecture that can correlate real-time events across a number of different applications. With OMNITROL, end users will not have to upgrade their entire infrastructure to adapt to the latest technology change or workflow improvement. The OMNITROL encapsulates complete business services intelligence on the work-floor where business operations happen. The OMNITROL mitigates technology investment risk by minimizing integration with existing legacy systems; enabling customers to migrate at their own pace while still being "future-proofed". "The Omnitrol EASE software platform is built to be able to create and manage business process applications and to be able to develop and implement new ones from a Web-based interface," stated Ouimette. "When new applications for RFID technology become available, the OMNITROL is capable of being quickly upgraded to meet these new business demands by virtue of its devices adaptation and services deployment software application layers and its panoply of I/O hardware interfaces." One of the more restrictive elements of RFID implementation is the cost of changing business processes at the operational level. Part of what OMNITROL demonstrated with Boeing is that workflow changes can be deployed across a facility or enterprise very quickly. The result of the pilot proved that the OMNITROL EASE software platform with its service execution building blocks, called "Edgelets" worked as designed. Boeing successfully deployed OMNITROL appliances in its facility, and simulated the deployment of other appliances for its suppliers. This proved that the appliance had the ability to manage Boeing's supply chain and assets in real time. Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to the company that has released products that address the key needs of their target market. The recipient company has been chosen, partly because of its ability to address those needs, and partly as a result of its vision to integrate RFID with wireless networks. Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry. About Omnitrol Networks, Inc. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented edge platform solutions for the emerging wireless and sensor extended network ("X-Internet") deployment market. The company's OMNITROL appliance and EASE™ edge application and services engine software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy distributed application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, California. Additional information about OMNITROL Network's products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. About Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit www.awards.frost.com or www.autoid.frost.com. |
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Managing Automation selects Omnitrol Networks as one of top 10 companies to watch in 2008 Mountain View, CA: September 5, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has been chosen as one of the top companies to watch in the wireless networks category by Managing Automation - the premier industry journal for business and technology managers in advanced manufacturing. Managing Automation print publication and website enable manufacturing management to analyze, select, implement and operate technologies to enhance their business processes for increased effectiveness and competitiveness in the market place. In their September 2007 issue, the editors of Managing Automation have selected 10 companies that have shown unique innovation in their respective fields. Managing Automation cites Omnitrol's ability to automatically monitor and track what is happening on the factory floor without user intervention as a unique differentiator. "This eliminates inconsistent or inaccurate reports of work in process," wrote Stephanie Neil, Senior Editor, Managing Automation. Managing Automation's editorial experts provide insight and analysis on current market conditions, technology products and the competitive landscape. Topics covered include e-business, ERP, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Execution, Controls, Robotics, Plant Floor Software, product development, the latest developments in production processes, Logistics and Warehousing. Managing Automation's Companies to Watch list is used by leading companies to help them reduce some of the time and labor it takes to keep up with technology trends in manufacturing. "Omnitrol Networks takes great pride in being selected as part of the prestigious Managing Automation's 2008 Top 10 Companies to Watch list," commented Raj Saksena CEO of Omnitrol Networks. "Our Work-In-Process solution helps companies to implement complete asset traceability in lean-manufacturing processes through our industry leading application convergence appliance, removing unnecessary costs and complexity incurred by middleware solutions and backend integration". The intelligent OMNITROL application network appliance enables not only a new level of operational visibility, but also new opportunities for real-time automation and decision making for manufacturing operations. The OMNITROL enhances business processes by integrating WiFi mobile devices, RFID, PLC control systems and sensor technologies optimizing manufacturing intelligence and shop-floor operations. The on-line version of the September 2007 issue of Managing Automation can be found here. About Omnitrol Networks, Inc. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASEâ„¢) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web based operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company with their corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about OMNITROL Network's products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. |
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