Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Platform IA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 April 2003
Platform speeds industrial
automation to market
The Wind River Platform for Industrial Automation is an integrated embedded platform that serves as the software foundation for industrial automation applications
The Wind River Platform for Industrial Automation (Platform IA) is an integrated embedded platform that serves as the software foundation for industrial automation applications such as robotics controllers, process controllers, network gateways and bridges, and more. With Platform IA, companies can standardise on a single platform across multiple projects, thereby reducing software development costs and increasing product reliability and time to market.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 April 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Device makers in the industrial automation market are faced with demands for device management and connectivity that enable seamless data integration on the factory floor.
Ethernet adoption is becoming crucial to the success of industrial devices, and according to recent research from ARC Advisory Group, Ethernet adoption at the device level will be a key determinant of the emergence of a common network architecture throughout the manufacturing enterprise.
"Wind River Platform for Industrial Automation is customised to meet the unique needs of today's intelligent industrial automation systems with increased software content and connectivity requirements", said Tony Tryba, Vice President and General Manager, Automotive, Industrial, Defence and Aerospace for Wind River.
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"By providing a rigorously tested and integrated software base for developing industrial automation devices, Wind River is making it possible for our customers to leverage code across multiple designs and focus their resources on innovation and new markets, rather than spending time "gluing" together the necessary software and hardware".
Platform IA offers manufacturers a market-specific integrated embedded platform that pre-integrates the industry's most reliable real-time operating system (RTOS), Wind River's VxWorks RTOS, development tools, and key industrial automation networking technologies such as traditional and Ethernet fieldbuses, DCOM and OPC.
Platform IA enables developers to provide enterprise, monitoring and control connectivity to devices and focus on application development - significantly reducing time consuming development, integration and test of foundation technologies.
Platform IA adds to the growing number of market-specific integrated embedded platforms from Wind River, the first five of which were made available in November.
Platform IA is available immediately.
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