Parker Wins Design News Golden Mousetrap Award
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Interact Xpress HMI software named Best Product of 2008
Rohnert Park, CA, September 22, 2008 - Design News magazine, a key
information source for engineers developing products of the future, has
named Parker's CTC-brand Interact Xpress(TM) as its 2008 Golden Mousetrap
Best Product Winner in the Automation category.
Interact Xpress is a Web-published HMI designed for distributed
applications and remote support, allowing users and OEMs to easily
publish upgrades and applications in real time to any global location
with an Internet connection and a Web browser. In addition to offering
users online editing capability, development tools can be used offline
to work on applications when a live Internet connection is not
available. A special landing page at www.parkermotion.com/xpress
showcases this award-winning product.
With Parker CTC's new release of InteractX 3.0 supervisory HMI software,
users will be able to take full advantage of the Xpress distributed HMI
architecture by pushing screens and data directly into InteractX for
monitoring and historical trending from multiple machines and sources.
When supervising machines and operator stations running Xpress,
InteractX significantly reduces application development time and costs
normally associated with supervisory HMI, allowing a much easier
migration path from standalone machine HMI to supervisory control.
Named as a Golden Mousetrap Awards finalist this year is Parker CTC's
XPR PowerStation series, a complete family of industrially hardened HMI
products designed to run Interact Xpress HMI software. Engineered to
operate in the harshest of environments, XPR PowerStations provide
everything from a no-display system designed to provide remote Web
access to a control panel with a 15" TFT display-based system.
"We are very proud to be recognized with a Golden Mousetrap Award," says
Andy Balderson, product sales manager for the Parker CTC family of HMI
products. "Interact Xpress is the first HMI product to truly leverage
the power of today's Internet technologies, and the fact that Xpress
comes pre-installed and bundled with Parker's XPR PowerStation hardware,
which was recognized as a finalist in this year's awards, makes this
honor all the sweeter."
For more than 20 years, the Design News Awards have recognized the most
significant individual and corporate technical achievements in the
electronics community. Design News is distributed monthly to more than
170,000 engineers who design products ranging from motion control to
spacecraft.
This year, awards were given in four major categories: Electronics,
Motion Control/Automation, Hardware/Software,
Materials/Fastening/Joining/Assembly and 24 subcategories. Executive
Editor Liz Taurasi gathered a record number of entries, distributing
them to the magazine's beat editors for judging. Based on their
expertise in each technology area, 75 finalists and 16 winners were
selected. The September 22 edition of Design News features this year's
winners.
"Our Golden Mousetrap Awards give innovators the recognition they justly
deserve," says John Dodge, Design News' editor-in-chief. "The awards
span Design News' five coverage areas, and we extend our sincerest
congratulations to the winners and finalists. Their perseverance in
these challenging economic times is admirable, indeed."
Interact Xpress HMI software joins another award-winning supervisory HMI
product, InteractX(TM), and original Interact software to round out the
Parker CTC line of HMI solutions, which range from simple pushbutton
panel replacement to advanced supervisory control applications.
Winners of this year's Design News Golden Mousetrap awards can be viewed
here: http://www.designnews.com/channel/Golden_Mousetrap_Winners.php;
finalists are listed here:
www.designnews.com/channel/Golden_Mousetrap_Finalists.php .
About Parker Electromechanical Automation
A division of Parker Hannifin Corporation's Automation Group since 1987,
Electromechanical Automation is a pioneer, developer and manufacturer of
full-spectrum computer-based motion controllers, servo/step motor
drives, servo motors and human-machine interfaces, positioning systems,
gearheads and gear motors. These products automate the manufacturing of
a significant fraction of the world's goods and services.
Electromechanical Automation products are sold via independent
authorized Automation Technology Centers-a group of nearly 100
professional, highly trained organizations with more than 135
points-of-presence throughout the world-or directly from
Electromechanical Automation by logging on to buy.compumotor.com. An
informative and up-to-date Web site with downloadable libraries,
tutorials, and background information on motion control and automation
is located at www.parkermotion.com.
About Parker Hannifin
With annual sales exceeding $10 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. The company
employs more than 57,000 people in 43 countries around the world. Parker
has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 52
consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase
records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the
company's web site at http//www.parker.com or its investor information
site at www.phstock.com.
Contact:
Andy Balderson,
Product Manager - Parker CTC
513-831-2340
abalderson@parker.com
5500 Business Park Dr.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Parkermotion.com
