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Omnitrol Networks adds real-time wide-area EPCIS capabilities to its award-winning work-in-process visibility solution Chicago, IL: October 2, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has integrated its award winning and the industry's first real-time work-in-process visibility appliance with standards-based EPC Information Services (EPCIS) to provide customers with total RFID-based visibility across their supplier operations. 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 wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution allows manufacturers and their suppliers to share critical availability information on parts in real-time to minimize waste, errors and delays. The sharing of real-time edge applications and sensors data across the supply chain offers new opportunities for manufacturers to identify and implement waste reduction processes. Component orders status information from the suppliers can be integrated directly into the OMNITROL wide-area WIP network to enable real-time management of delays, change-orders, defects and forecasts with their suppliers and partners manufacturing operations. "The costs of not detecting production delays or changes at the right time have an exponential effect through the production life cycle, distribution, sales and customer satisfaction," said David Orain, Vice-President Marketing at Omnitrol Networks. "The wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution now allows companies to easily collaborate on their operational inter-dependencies to optimize their business processes and attack all sorts of waste." The release of the wide-area real-time WIP visibility solution integrated with IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Centerâ„¢ represents the next step in exchanging order status information across the supply-chain. The OMNITROL solution hides the complexity of RFID based automated data collection while enabling powerful integration of manufacturing intelligence across manufacturers operations without expensive back-end or middleware integration. Omnitrol Networks was just selected by Managing Automation as one of the top 10 companies to watch in 2008, and has received the 2007 product innovation award for best RFID middleware from Frost and Sullivan. The wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution will be demonstrated at the EPC Connection conference in Chicago, October 2-4, 2007. 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 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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Omnitrol Networks Integrates IBM RFID Software into Work-In-Process Appliance
Solution Targets Integrated Global Operations for Manufacturers Mountain View, CA and Armonk, NY (April 17, 2008) - Omnitrol Networks and IBM today announced that Omnitrol has embedded IBM’s WebSphere RFID Information Center software into the OMNITROL Work-In-Process (WIP) appliance to create an EPC-based traceability and tracking solution for the manufacturing and logistics industries. The OMNITROL WIP Appliance integrates all the data from the sensors, RFID readers, mobile handheld devices, and other shop floor equipment to improve monitoring of the supply-chain, inventory, manufacturing, shipping and delivery of products. The appliance helps manufacturers reduce costs and time to market by identifying production issues internally and throughout their supply chain. IBM’s WebSphere RFID Information Center enhances the OMNITROL WIP appliance by allowing customers to share product movement information with trading partners using solutions that comply with GS1 EPCglobal’s EPC Information Services (EPCIS) standard. EPCIS provides a data model for events including shipping and receiving of uniquely identified objects such as units, cases, and pallets. It also defines interfaces for capturing product movement data and for securely sharing that information with customers and suppliers. The IBM software includes an optional ePedigree feature that gives trading partners secure access to historical data on individual items across complex supply chains. “Our relationship with IBM allows us to offer an EPC compliant solution that enables real-time collaboration across a manufacturer’s global supply chain,” said Ravi Rishy-Maharaj, vice president of business development for Omnitrol Networks. “IBM’s WebSphere RFID Information Center software, combined with our OMNITROL WIP appliance, substantially reduces the cost and complexity of the deployment of global track and trace solutions.” “IBM is expanding the solutions marketplace by signing OEM agreements that allow our partners to embed IBM software into their own solutions.” said Daren Hanson, director of IBM OEM software sales. Through this OEM agreement, Omnitrol has incorporated IBM software into its own product in order to rapidly deliver a solution that is targeted to its customers needs. By teaming with IBM as a source of innovation, the company can bring its solution to market more quickly than if they were to develop a new solution from the ground up.” 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 IBM’s Software OEM Program IBM’s software OEM program enables partners to embed IBM software to create higher value solutions for their customers. As part of this OEM program, IBM is deepening relationships with partners in a strategic effort to expand its own go to market strategy while also helping partners decrease development time by providing them with software that serves as the backbone of their solutions so that they can achieve faster time-to-market. For more information on About IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/masterdata/rfid
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Omnitrol Networks ends 2007 with a bang Mountain View, CA: December 20, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced today that its RFID middleware application network appliance has been featured in the latest Venture Development Corporation report on RFID middleware. Venture Development Corporation (VDC) is a technology market research and strategy firm with over 30 years of experience in providing market research, strategic analysis and consulting services to technology companies worldwide. The VDC 2007 Opportunity and Requirements analysis report on RFID middleware provides quantitative and qualitative analyses of global demand for RFID middleware solutions. For this report, VDC analysts conducted in-depths interviews with end-users, system integrators, consultants and industry associations. Profiles included in this report are remised solely to suppliers that are either current or emerging market leaders. The VDC analysts reported that they expect organizations to distribute their enterprise architecture to aggregate and process data generated from RFID at the edge of the network. “The edge is typically where organizations have the least amount of visibility and control,” wrote Andrew Nathanson, Director of VDC’s Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) Practice. “The OMNITROL solution delivers a new generation network appliance encapsulating all RFID processing and management, thereby eliminating back-end development, reducing setup and support costs for edge deployments.” The OMNITROL provides workflow and edge service creation, business process integration, device management, and service management and provisioning into one single network appliance. According to the VDC report, the OMNITROL solution is AIDC, frequency, and technology-agnostic which allows customers to mix and match technologies in their RFID projects and future-proof their solutions. “This has been a very exciting year for the company as we launched the OMNITROL appliance and Work-In-Process solution for the manufacturing industry. We have received tremendous endorsements from our customers and partners as well as superb reviews from the press and analyst communities,” said David Orain, Vice-President of Marketing at Omnitrol Networks. “Today, we are the only vendor offering an appliance-based, end-to-end solution to help companies increase productivity and reduce costs by bringing more intelligence and real-time to their work-floor.” 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 offers 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 corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks’ products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. |
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Silicon India selects Omnitrol Networks as one of the top technology companies in 2007 Mountain View, CA: November 9, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced that it has been chosen as one of the top technology companies by Silicon India, the leading business and technology publication in the U.S. and India. Silicon India is an international monthly magazine for information technology professionals of Indian origin. Each year, Silicon India presents the top 100 Indian founded and managed technology companies in the U.S. The magazine tracks over 1,000 companies in the US and selects the ones that have the potential to be the game changer in their segment of technology or business. For this 10th year listing, a distinguished panel comprising Indian CEOs and CIOs of public companies, VCs, analysts, and the editors of the magazine has selected Omnitrol Networks as one of the top technology companies in the software category. In its entrepreneur article, Silicon India describes the new sensor-based application network that Omnitrol Networks builds for its customers and how it provides them with a competitive advantage through more automated visibility, asset tracking and process optimization. "The OMNITROL appliance has developed a powerful new paradigm in real-time Work-In-Process visibility and traceability," wrote Joseph Robin Mathews, Associate Editor, Silicon India. "By combining all the computing, networking, and software resources into a single physical device, Omnitrol Networks is going to be a catalyst of the IT transformation that will support the proliferation of intelligent edge networks". "Omnitrol Networks is very pleased to have been selected as part of the prestigious Silicon India 100 list," said Ravi Rishy-Marahaj Vice-President of Business Development at Omnitrol Networks. "The company has delivered the industry's first contactless Work-In-Process solution that provides our customer with complete work-order traceability without requiring any manual intervention. The OMNITROL solution further improves operations with real-time process analytics through the deployment of sensor-based networks without the cost and complexity of traditional approaches". The OMNITROL appliance enhances business processes by integrating WiFi mobile devices, RFID, PLC control systems and sensor technologies, thus optimizing manufacturing intelligence and shop-floor operations. The OMNITROL-based award-winning Work-In-Process visibility solution has been successfully deployed in a variety of manufacturing companies. The Silicon India top 100 list 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 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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The Manufacturing Systems and Automation Lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio selects the OMNITROL WIP appliance for research, education, and training in network-centric manufacturing environments. Mountain View, CA: December 13, 2007 - Omnitrol Networks announced today that the Manufacturing Systems and Automation Laboratory of the University of Texas at San Antonio is developing a test-bed for automatic identification (Auto-ID) applications in manufacturing based on the OMNITROL WIP appliance. The new OMNITROL-based network will provide an advanced manufacturing intelligence development and deployment environment for the Manufacturing Systems and Automation Laboratory (MSA) at San Antonio. MSA is one of three new laboratories established as a part of the UTSA’s new initiative “Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS)”. The CAMLS has recently been awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Defense and a $375,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and support new research laboratories in manufacturing engineering. “These grants allow us to quickly acquire and deploy effective blends of equipment and software packages to establish in-house capabilities in order to support research, research training, and education in manufacturing system integration, automation, lean manufacturing, value chain modeling, and simulation,” said Can Saygin, Director of the MSA and associate professor of mechanical engineering at UTSA. "I was extremely impressed with the capabilities of the OMNITROL appliance approach, and its ability to rapidly create and deploy intelligent edge manufacturing services, which led me to select Omnitrol Networks’ solution for my laboratory. The new OMNITROL-based network gives us more flexibility than today’s approach, making our research more timely and applicable," said Can Saygin. "In addition, the OMNITROL’s capability to integrate with all devices on the shop floor, including PLCs and new sensor technologies like RFID, is giving our students and industry partners access to the latest leading edge technologies." The solution environment is based on OMNITROL’s unique Edge Application Services Engine (EASETM) and device adaptation that provide a very powerful workflow services development and deployment environment. The workflow services are created using a powerful BPEL-like Service Definition Language, called Edgelets™. The language was developed to enable rapid and easy modeling of business processes and deliver industrial automation, WIP tracking, asset tracking and shipping accuracy applications. The complete solution is packaged into a single appliance model dramatically reducing the costs and complexity of development and deployment. “Omnitrol Networks is very pleased to collaborate with a leading manufacturing laboratory such as UTSA’s to develop coursework and university programs that apply to the Department of Defense projects and provide academic leadership in the sensor infrastructure. The laboratory is a great partner to develop initiatives with San Antonio’s rich manufacturing environment,” said Raj Saksena, CEO of Omnitrol Networks. “Our OMNITROL platform has proven itself as the easiest, most flexible and cost-effective solution to develop and deploy real-time operational intelligence for discrete and process manufacturing.” 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 offers 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 corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks’ products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com. |
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