NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release 

July 28, 2016

Control Point and LEC INC Partner to Expand IIoT Marketing Efforts

Control Point Incorporated, automation technology and data acquisition experts, and LEC, Incorporated, industrial automation engineering and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) communications experts,announce their strategic partnership as a key step in expanding the IIoT market efforts of both companies.
“This partnership demonstrates our ongoing investment and commitment to expanding and enhancing our IIoT operations,” said LEC’s Director of IIoT Strategy Brian Rosema. “We continue to be leaders in the evolution and enablement of IIoT. The addition of this partnership with Control Point to our already cutting-edge team ideally positions us to further enhance our IIoT technology by expanding production, increasing safety and cutting costs for the clients of both companies.”
With years of Industrial Controls and Automation experience, along with investment in new and innovative technologies and the brightest human resources, LEC is truly a market leader in deploying IIoT. The partnership will enable Control Point to fill disparate technology gaps for their clients by offering LEC’s experienced IIoT enablement services.
“Control Point’s clients have been looking for an IIoT solution like LEC’s iQ Web SCADA for some time now. We are excited to be able to bring them an industry-proven, scalable, web-based solution for their communications and monitoring needs,” said Control Point President Jeff Murray.
For more information on the partnership and IIoT enablement, visit www.LECINC.com.
About Control Point, Inc.
Control Point Inc. was founded in 2000 as a representative for high technology automation and data acquisition products, and has since greatly expanded our abilities in communications for local and remote applications. Our goal is to keep our customers working efficiently with the highest quality, cost effective, and innovative technologies. Website: www.ControlPT.com
About LEC INC
LEC INC provides engineering and industrial IIoT communications services of the highest quality with an unending commitment to our clients and communities. Through client engagement, technical innovation, research and development, we strive to develop better solutions to achieve complete satisfaction of those we serve. With each project our goal is to establish a new standard of quality and professionalism. Website: www.LECINC.com

For more information or if you have questions please feel free to visit our website www.ControlPt.com or contact us at (207) 415-4166.

Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015 Service Pack 1 is released

Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015 Service Pack 1 is now available and provides important new features and quality enhancements that improve the stability, performance and functionality of the product.

Let's take a look at some of the new features and enhancements in this service pack:

• Enhanced support for facilities systems using BACnet devices with numerous driver enhancements, simplified configuration experience, and tight integration of BACnet schedules with the Scheduler
• Scheduler enhancements with new ActiveX control properties and Special Days view
• New Project Summary delivering the ability to easily understand the size, complexity and configuration of a project
• New Cicode Profiler allowing engineers to measure the performance of custom-built Cicode functions on a running process, very useful for performance troubleshooting or debugging

With some great new features, this is a significant service pack!

Please refer to the release notes for a full description of all the included changes.

Testing

Our Quality Assurance (QA) team has completed a comprehensive quality assurance program of verification, regression, system and acceptance testing on Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015 Service Pack 1, as well as system integration validation with other products, including OFS, Historian, Unity Pro and Ampla MES.

Installation / un-installation of the service pack

Please read the accompanying release notes for full details on all areas covered within Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015 Service Pack 1, including known issues, as well as installation and un-installation details.

SCADA & MES Global Support recommends Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015 users apply the service pack as soon as practically possible.

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We have some resources to help you. Watch the short 'Why Upgrade' video to see why you should start planning your upgrade today. And be sure to download your copy of the Upgrade white paper, where you'll learn about:

• Benefits of upgrading to Vijeo Citect / CitectSCADA 2015
• How to plan & prepare your upgrade
• Recommended steps
• Tips & best practices for a successful upgrade

For more information or if you have questions please feel free to visit our website and Contact Us www.ControlPt.com

Successful Citect SCADA Manufacturing Application

A major aircraft engine manufacturer in CT needs a lot of steam to heat the acres of engineering, manufacturing and testing facilities on their campus.  They also need steam for production processes.  

Citect SCADA has provided an excellent interface to the boiler operations from the boiler plant control room and remotely from management offices.  The system consists of two redundant SCADA servers that each serve four wall mounted monitors making up the 4 x 2 array of monitors shown in the picture below.  The redundant SCADA servers ensure that communication, data logging and alarm processing continue even if one of the SCADA computers fails.  Multiple monitors allow operators to see dashboard gauges, trend screens, alarm screens and process graphics at the same time, providing for a quick and informative view of the boilers operation.  Integrated locally and managed by on-site personnel, the Citect SCADA system has become an integral tool for boiler management.

For more successful application stories from Control Point, please visit our Application Stories page here www.ControlPt.com/Application-Stories.html

Red Lion Wins "2016 Device Partner" Award from Telit

Red Lion Wins "2016 Device Partner" Award from TelitCompletes Integration and Certification on Telit's deviceWISE IoT Platform

 

Based in York, Pennsylvania, Red Lion Controls is a global provider of communication, monitoring and control solutions for industrial automation customers.

YORK, Pa., Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Lion Controls, the global experts in communication, monitoring and control forindustrial automation and networking, today announced that the company recently won the "2016 Device Partner" Award from Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), at the Telit IoT Innovation Conference in Fort Lauderdale. This achievement follows Red Lion's Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware integration and certification with Telit's deviceWISE platform.

"The industrial market is an important part of IoT, and Telit has developed the deviceWISE platform to connect devices to enterprise business systems in many industrial environments for both on-premise and cloud-based remote solutions," said Dubi Margalit, GM, IoT Factory Solutions at Telit IoT platforms. "Integrating our IoT platform with Red Lion's industrial automation and networking products allows companies to quickly harness the power of the Industrial IoT to improve their process and daily operations."

The combination of Red Lion's IIoT-ready products with the Telit deviceWISE platform enables businesses in a wide range of industries to connect machines to business systems without custom programming. Configured for cloud connectivity, this comprehensive solution also monitors and controls industrial equipment and processes to provide integrated operational views that seamlessly allow customers to reduce the cost, time to market and complexities commonly associated with IIoT implementation.

"It is an honor to be recognized by Telit for our IIoT-ready products that seamlessly work with the deviceWISE platform to provide a complete end-to-end solution," said Brian Rosema, director of IIoT strategy at Red Lion Controls. "The IoT ecosystem is evolving quickly and our integration with IoT platform providers such as Telit helps expand our role in IIoT as we deliver our industrial automation, Ethernet and cellular products to customers worldwide."

Recently Red Lion established an IIoT Innovation Center in St. Louis, which houses engineering, product and sales teams focused on developing IIoT solutions. Key to this initiative is providing industrial automation products that connect disparate systems and enable communications across a wide variety of industrial protocols. Featuring protocol conversion, visual management and remote monitoring capabilities, Red Lion's IIoT-ready products extend equipment lifespan, improve process visibility and push control to the edge of the network.

For additional information about Red Lion and the IIoT, please visit www.redlion.net/IIoT.

About Red Lion ControlsAs the global experts in communication, monitoring and control for industrial automation and networking, Red Lion has been delivering innovative solutions for over 40 years. Our automation, Ethernet and cellular M2M technology enables companies worldwide to gain real-time data visibility that drives productivity. Product brands include Red Lion, N-Tron and Sixnet. With headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, the company has offices across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Red Lion is part of Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company. For more information, please visit www.redlion.net.

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Bedrock Control System Wins 2015 Breakthrough Product Award

Bedrock Control System Wins 2015 Breakthrough Product Award from Processing Magazine

 

Bedrock industrial control system wins 2015 Breakthrough Product award.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Dec. 22, 2015 - PRLog -- Processing magazine has named Bedrock Automation’s Bedrock^TM industrial control system (ICS) as a Breakthrough Product of 2015. Processing recognized Bedrock for its unique architecture, including a pinless electromagnetic backplane that removes key points of cyber security vulnerability while also offering dramatic improvements in processing power and ease of use.

“The process industries are under increasing assault from malicious code and unwelcome intrusion, yet the SCADARTUs, DCSs and PLCs that control production are based on technology developed before cyber threats became common. Bedrock has built a universal control system from the silicon up, which represents a significant breakthrough that will impact the process industries for years to come,” said Kevin Parker, Processing magazine Editor-in-Chief.

Bedrock™ addresses virtually all control applications with fewer than a dozen part numbers, reducing cyber attack vectors, cutting lifecycle costs, and simplifying engineering, commissioning and maintenance. It delivers I/O, power and communications across a pin-less electromagnetic backplane with a parallel architecture that supports ultra fast scan times regardless of I/O count. Removing I/O pins improves reliability and increases cyber security while forming a galvanic isolation barrier for every I/O channel. This massively innovative backplane also allows installation of I/O modules in any orientation and location for unprecedented flexibility in I/O and cable management.

Secure I/O modules use layers of advanced technology to deliver software-defined I/O for universal analog, discrete, Ethernet and Fieldbus signal types. A secure power module is functionally and physically coupled to the backplane to deliver single and dual redundant cyber secure power for the control system. A secure universal controller is so powerful it can run virtually every conceivable application independent of size or control task: discrete, batch, continuous, or multivariable control from one device that supports as few as ten, to as many as thousands of I/O points.

“We are deeply committed to advancing ICS cyber security (http://www.bedrockautomation.com/) as well to improving control system performance, scalability and economy. It means a great deal to us that a magazine of Processing’s stature has selected our revolutionary control system for this prestigious award,” said Bedrock Automation President, Bob Honor.

Processing (http://www.processingmagazine.com) magazine’s more than 70,000 subscribers are engineers, plant-operations and managers in the worldwide process industries, including the chemical, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries. They instituted the Breakthrough Product awards to recognize each year’s most promising equipment, devices and other solutions for improving industrial productivity and sustaining infrastructure in process operations.