Windows-based product is one of 8 Engineers’ Choice Award winners
MILFORD, OHIO (March 1, 2004) — Control Engineering magazine has announced that their readers have chosen Parker’s InteractXä software system as the best human-machine interface product of 2003. For the first time, subscribers to Control Engineering's North American edition were asked to choose the best technologies for automation, control and instrumentation from among 35 winners of 2003 Control Engineering Editors' Choice Awards announced in the January 2004 issue. The eight Engineers’ Choice Award winners selected by readers were announced during the recent National Manufacturing Week at McCormick Place in Chicago. Readers chose InteractX for its technological advancement, market impact and service to the industry.
InteractX HMI software includes:· Breakthrough graphic technology · Panel tool library for fast, easy screen development· Alarming for real-time and historical review/archiving· 21 CFR part 11 compliance· Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) – No Proprietary Scripting! · Unlimited Tags – No Tags Games! · 40+ communication drivers AT NO EXTRA CHARGE! · ActiveX third-party tool support· OPC Client Interface so InteractX can communicate to ANY OPC Server· OPC Tag Server – ALL tags served to an OPC Client at NO EXTRA CHARGE! Recently released in version 1.9, InteractX software runs in Windows® on any office or industrial PC.
Designed specifically for machine control and OEM needs – particularly in reliability, ease of application, and reduced long-term costs of ownership – InteractX offers the most advanced graphics of any Windows product. With this latest version, InteractX offers additional features for Level 2 HMI platforms, which provides centralized logging and storing of data from the factory processes for real-time or future analysis. Other InteractX 1.9 features include a networked OPC Client/Server, which supports DCOM; an Interact application import, with which users can take an existing Interact application and import directly into InteractX to minimize downtime; and performance enhancements to increase the application speed.
About CTC Parker
Since 1980, CTC has been designing, manufacturing, and marketing both hardware and software to provide factory-floor, machine-operator-interface solutions for automation projects worldwide. In 1998, CTC became a unit of the Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH), Cleveland, Ohio. With annual sales exceeding $6 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. For more information on Interact or InteractX HMI, as well as other factory floor automation solutions, contact: Parker Automation-CTC, 50 W. TechneCenter Drive, Milford, OH 45150.
Phone: 513-831-2340. Fax: 513-831-5042. Internet: www.ctcusa.com .
