Rockwell partners MCS for Manufacturing Software

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 7, 2000

Rockwell Automation announces a partnership with MCS Industrial Software Limited to further enhance its capabilities in providing solutions in the area of Manufacturing Businessware

Rockwell Automation announces an Enterprise Integration partnership with MCS Industrial Software Limited to further enhance its capabilities in providing solutions in the area of Manufacturing BusinessWare.

MCS Industrial Software (MCSIS) is the first of a select band of Enterprise Integrators that Rockwell Automation will partner in order to provide integrated solutions linking plant floor control to enterprise-wide information and business systems.

MCSIS forms part of the MCS Group of companies, and focuses solely on providing software solutions for manufacturing.

From simple plant floor HMI and SCADA, up to complex enterprise-wide management information and tracking systems.

Within the scope of this partnership, MCSIS will provide integration, consultancy and support services for the Rockwell Software RSBizware suite of products.

"Providing successful enterprise-wide software solutions requires a special combination of skill sets", said Chris Haines, Rockwell Software's Business Unit Manager.

"It requires knowledge of the factory floor automation environment, top end business processes and an in depth grasp of the latest software technologies and tools.

Because MCSIS concentrate on providing software solutions for manufacturing, they have developed a sound knowledge-base to equip themselves for the future and provide our customers with the best Manufacturing BusinessWare solutions".

MCSIS Director of Sales and Marketing, Geoff Tripp added, "At MCSIS we have developed a solution for companies who need to track production or processes, we call it C.A.T.S.

The consistent component-based architecture that Rockwell Software has used throughout their product suite fits our philosophy perfectly.

We have a lot of experience with their products and believe that Rockwell Software is leading the way in terms of usability and utilisation of integration technologies.

That's why we are committing our future C.A.T.S solutions to the Rockwell Software range".

Manufacturing BusinessWare solutions are designed to address the top issues facing today's manufacturing enterprise - improved asset management, better equipment and line efficiency, more effective quality management and process improvements.

Rockwell Sofware recently launched the first two of a family of Manufacturing BusinessWare tools, RSBizware Historian and RSBizware ComplianceTrack.

RSBizware Historian is an extension of the Rockwell Software RSSql product that provides pre- designed data models and analysis tools for customers who require a complete solution for the collection and analysis of production data.

RSBizware ComplianceTrack is a product for managing compliance processes, creating compliance checklists, performing audits, and collecting, analysing and reporting audit results.