December 22, 2004, Greenwood, Indiana - The Swiss Endress+Hauser Group (process automation) consolidates their offer by a strategic collaboration with Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee/USA). Together the two companies will provide comprehensive solutions for plant engineering, operation and management to customers with hybrid automation tasks (production and process automation), utilizing the top measurement devices of Endress+Hauser and the integrated control, communication and visualization platform of Rockwell Automation.
The collaboration of the two independent suppliers makes process and production automation move closer together and simultaneously underlines today’s importance of open standards such as FDT in industrial automation.Endress+Hauser specializing in measurement instrumentation and automation solutions for industrial process engineering will work closely with Rockwell Automation implementing and testing the full capability of Endress+Hauser devices with Allen-Bradley Logix controllers and RSLogix 5000 software. To this end standard communication protocols such as Foundation Fieldbus™ or HART® are used.
Rockwell Automation in turn as one of the leading suppliers worldwide for industrial automation will utilize the FieldCare Software developed by Endress+Hauser in their maintenance software portfolio RSMACC. Based on the open FDT/DTM (Field Device Tool/Device Type Manager) technology, FieldCare allows for configuration, operation, maintenance and management of a wide range of modern field devices. “We have entered into this collaboration – and will further develop it – for the first to bear profit will be our customers and those of our partner,” said Klaus Endress, CEO of the Endress+Hauser Group. “The customers call for open and not for proprietary solutions.” He thus mentions a “typical win-win-win situation”.
For Rockwell Automation, the collaboration means last but not least a commitment to open standards. The company intends to join the FDT Joint Interest Group, an association of very many automation companies with the mutual goal to enhance the open standard FDT, and contribute to the steering committee.
For more information, visit www.endress.com/eh/sc/america/us/en/home.nsf/?Open&DirectURL=C6BBA27905C52EA2C1256F780051B2D6 , or contact us toll-free at 888-ENDRESS.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE:ROK) is a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control, and information solutions that help customers meet their manufacturing productivity objectives. The company brings together leading brands in industrial automation for Complete Automation® solutions, including Allen-Bradley controls and services, Dodge® mechanical power transmission products, Reliance® motors and drives, and Rockwell Software factory management software. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, the company employs about 20,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.
About Endress+Hauser
The Endress+Hauser Group is a global leader in the provision of measurement instrumentation and automation solutions for industrial process engineering. The company is a Swiss family business and consists of a network of legally independent companies, managed and coordinated by a holding company in Reinach, Switzerland. The group comprises 72 companies in 37 countries, which operate 19 production centers in Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, China, Japan, India and the USA.
At the end of 2003, Endress+Hauser employed 6,077 people, generating 976.9 million in sales and a profit of 48.1 million. The company's growth is due to a culture of innovation - in 2003, Endress+Hauser took out a patent for 157 innovations.With a wide range of sensors, instruments, systems and services, Endress+Hauser covers the areas of level, flow, pressure, temperature, analysis and recording.
The range also includes the connection of field appliances to mainframe processing systems using fieldbuses and automation and logistical solutions. The products manufactured by Endress+Hauser set the standard in reliability, availability, quality and technology. Customers come primarily from the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, water & wastewater, paper, energy and oil & gas sectors. They optimize their process engineering procedures with support from Endress+Hauser while taking into consideration environmental protection, safety and economic efficiency. Endress+Hauser was founded in 1953 by Georg H.
Endress and Ludwig Hauser. Since 1975, the Endress family has had sole ownership of the Group. In 1995, Klaus Endress took over the management of the Group from his father. In more than 50 years since its foundation, the company has developed organically from being ‘specialists in level measurement’ to ‘providers of complete solutions for industrial measuring technology and automation’. As well as adding innovative products and services to extend the range, new markets have been continually opened up.
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