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Factory data acquisition
News Release from: Invensys
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Processors, flat screens, licenses
bundled
The Foxboro unit of Invensys Process Systems has announced an upgrade incentive program for users of the thousands of existing "Nodebus"-based I/A Series automation systems.
The Foxboro unit of Invensys Process Systems has announced an upgrade incentive program for users of the thousands of existing "Nodebus"-based I/A Series automation systems installed around the world The "Move to the Mesh" upgrade program further reduces the cost and effort required to expand the size and capability of these Nodebus-based Foxboro systems with the latest I/A Series Mesh Control Network technology
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The incentive, which ends September 30, 2006, bundles the latest generation of field-mounted I/A Series Control Processors, Windows XP-based flat-panel LCD workstations, and appropriate software licenses and equipment (including managed, High-Speed Ethernet switches), with a redundant pair of I/A Series ATS (Address Translation Station) modules.
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