10-01-2007, 07:50 PM
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Omnitrol Networks adds real-time wide-area EPCIS capabilities to its WIP solution
CHICAGO, IL., October 2, 2007 – Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has integrated its award winning and the industry's first real-time work-in-process visibility appliance with standards-based EPC Information Services (EPCIS) to provide customers with total RFID-based visibility across their supplier operations.
The OMNITROL work-in-process (WIP) solution provides manufacturers with completely automated and contact-less real-time operational visibility to track work orders with manufacturing traceability on parts and personnel improving overall production efficiency and quality. The wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution allows manufacturers and their suppliers to share critical availability information on parts in real-time to minimize waste, errors and delays.
The sharing of real-time edge applications and sensors data across the supply chain offers new opportunities for manufacturers to identify and implement waste reduction processes. Component orders status information from the suppliers can be integrated directly into the OMNITROL wide-area WIP network to enable real-time management of delays, change-orders, defects and forecasts with their suppliers and partners manufacturing operations.
"The costs of not detecting production delays or changes at the right time have an exponential effect through the production life cycle, distribution, sales and customer satisfaction," said David Orain, Vice-President Marketing at Omnitrol Networks. "The wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution now allows companies to easily collaborate on their operational inter-dependencies to optimize their business processes and attack all sorts of waste."
The release of the wide-area real-time WIP visibility solution integrated with IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Center represents the next step in exchanging order status information across the supply-chain. The OMNITROL solution hides the complexity of RFID based automated data collection while enabling powerful integration of manufacturing intelligence across manufacturers operations without expensive back-end or middleware integration.
Omnitrol Networks was just selected by Managing Automation as one of the top 10 companies to watch in 2008, and has received the 2007 product innovation award for best RFID middleware from Frost and Sullivan. The wide-area edition of the OMNITROL WIP solution will be demonstrated at the EPC Connection conference in Chicago, October 2-4, 2007.
About Omnitrol Networks, Inc.
Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web based operational visibility, asset tracking and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about OMNITROL Network's products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com
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