Matrikon releases free Operational Insight Lite OPC software

HOUSTON, January 29, 2007 – Matrikon announces the upcoming release of Matrikon Operational Insight Lite, a software tool to acquire, display, and analyze OPC data. It includes the ability to access both real-time and historical data.Matrikon Operational Insight Lite will be available for a limited number of Beta users by mid February; interested parties should email before February 15, 2007. The final release is due in April 2007, when it will be available as a no-cost download from the Matrikon website.Matrikon Operational Insight Lite is based on ProcessNet, Matrikon's award-winning visualization and Decision Support Software (DSS). Matrikon Operational Insight Lite enables operations, engineering, and maintenance personnel to view insightful trends, process graphics and KPI dashboards from their desktop PCs. Matrikon Operational Insight Lite will be available for download from Matrikon’s web site at no cost.“People must often provide a business case to justify expensive tools to management, even to resolve simple questions,” says Pablo Asiron, Matrikon Operational Insight Product Manager. “To remove barriers between people and the answers they need, we decided to offer this tool at no cost for anyone to use… for as long as they want”Key features of Matrikon Operational Insight Lite include: