FORT MYERS, FL – September 28, 2004 – Innova Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IVHG), announced that Tom Helzerman has joined the Board of Directors of Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc. (RWT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Innova. Mr. Helzerman is currently President of Ariel Group, a business and automation consulting company to the manufacturing industry located in Ann Arbor, MI.
“Tom Helzerman brings a long list of impressive accomplishments to his position on the RWT Board of Directors,” says Walter Weisel, Chairman and CEO of RWT and Innova Holdings, Inc. “We look forward to working closely with Tom as he brings his leadership and expertise to this group of directors.”Mr. Helzerman joined RWT in January 2002 as President and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining RWT, Tom spent 36 years at Ford Motor Company, serving in a number of manufacturing, engineering, and management positions within Vehicle Operations; Engineering and Manufacturing Staff; ALPHA Simultaneous Engineering; and Jaguar Cars, Coventry, England.
Mr. Helzerman is an SME Certified Manufacturing Engineer in Robotics and a past member of the Robotic Industries Association's Board of Directors (RIA). He was honored with the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for Applications in 1999. He is a past chairman of RIA's Robot Performance Standards Sub-Committee.
Under his chairmanship, two robot performance standards were developed and approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). These two standards are based largely upon his pioneering work in the development of the Ford Robot Assessment Program while at the Robotics and Automation Application Consulting Center (RAACC), Engineering and Manufacturing Staff.Mr. Helzerman received both a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan - Dearborn. He is a past member of that school's Alumni Advisory Committee and also a past member of the Alumni Affiliate Board of Governors.
He received the School of Engineering's Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1995. Tom is a past president of the Ypsilanti (Michigan) Jaycees, past president of the Michigan JCI Senate and has received community service awards from the Ford Motor Company, the Michigan State House of Representatives, and the Michigan State Senate. About Innova Holdings, Inc. Innova Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:IVHG), Fort Myers, Florida, is a holding company formed to increase shareholder value by creating compelling, profitable, productive, and sustainable growth; seeking out and acquiring technology differentiated companies with extraordinary potential.
Management will target acquisitions that bring high potential, proprietary technologies to Innova. Innova does not intend to invest in or acquire entities with unproven or “conceptual” business models. It intends to build acquired companies to achieve a “critical mass” of market visibility and acceptance, becoming substantial value-driving subsidiaries and/or attractive candidates for either a strategic sale or a public spin-off. Some targeted companies will be merged into subsidiaries of Innova and other targeted companies will form the basis for new subsidiary entities.
About Robotics Workspace Technologies, Inc. Robotic Workspace Technologies (RWT) was founded in 1994 to enhance the field of robotics with commercially available, standard PC products to improve robot performance, applicability, and productivity. In this spirit of innovation, RWT has been at the forefront of developing and offering solutions built upon an open architecture that harnesses the power and user-friendliness of the PC platform and the Windows® operating system. Its technology has been applied to robots and a wide range of automated equipment performing many tasks in industries ranging from agriculture to automotive, to medical and R&D. Two “founder’s” patents have been issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Foreign filings for RWT patents have been applied for.Headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, RWT is recognized internationally for its pioneering contributions to the robotics industry and celebrates its 10th anniversary in September of this year. Its founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Walter Weisel, has been a driving force in the robot industry for the past 32 years. Mr.
Weisel is a recipient of the prestigious Joseph F. Engelberger Award, recognizing his contributions to the advancement of robotics and automation. RWT introduced in 1998 the world’s first open-architecture PC controller for robots, the Universal Robot Controller (URC™) and the first Windows®-based environment for robot programming, control and monitoring, the RobotScript® universal robot programming language. The URC and RobotScript can be applied to virtually any robot, new or already in production. Since the URC and RobotScript conform to industry standards, this control system provides a level of connectivity to other automated production equipment and enterprise-wide computers never before available from a robot controller.
This is an important capability because connectivity allows various pieces of automated production equipment to work together in an efficient manner. The URC can even acquire and transmit digital and analog data via the Internet, giving manufacturers access to their robotic operations worldwide with one common tool.