PRODAC Systems Ltd. Designated Intellution Solution Partner
Tel Aviv, September 1, 1999 – PRODAC Systems Ltd., a leading provider of innovative, state-of-the-art MES solutions to the beverage and related process manufacturing industries, announced today that the company has been designated as a Solution Partner by Intellution Inc. Intellution is a top supplier of industrial automation software solutions, having an install base of some 85,000 installations worldwide. This collaboration makes available a solution set for process manufacturers that puts them far ahead of the pack.
Founded in 1992 as a joint venture between soft drinks manufacturers and industrial engineers, PRODAC Systems leverages its expertise in liquid packaging operations management and industrial control systems to develop revolutionary manufacturing decision support systems. Offering a ready-made yet easily customizable set of applications that can be installed within weeks, PRODAC production management software systems have been successfully implemented at more than twenty of the top beverage manufacturers worldwide. PRODAC is pushing its DrinkSoft™ solution to market dominance in the consumer products industries, while leveraging its experience to create solutions for other industries in need of innovative graphic analysis tools to monitor and improve production efficiencies.
Intellution Inc. of Norwood, Mass. leads in supplying industrial automation software, having recently introduced FIX Dynamics the industry’s first fully-integrated component object solution. In addition to the HMI/SCADA, Soft Logic and Internet tools, Intellution has integrated into the FIX Dynamics solution the next generation batch control software component, iBatch. An easy to use graphical batch control tool consistent with ISA S88 standards and featuring full OPC and ODBC compliance as well as full integration with the FIX toolkit, FIX Visual Batch makes Intellution the preferred supplier to the process manufacturer.
PRODAC’s DrinkSoft™ v 5.1 , is a proven, fully Y2K compliant world-class production management software system designed especially for the beverage industry. The PC-based client/server system on Windows NT combines real-time data from the lines with operator entries and with history and preconfigured data. Easy to use graphic tools compare actual real-time data to past performance, plans, standards, and other user-specific operational rules, highlighting problems and exceptions and showing trends. With DrinkSoft™, beverage plants run their operations effectively, reducing down-time and increasing material yields, making decisions fast and accurately and reducing expenses, achieving their optimal performance targets for continuous improvement.
DrinkSoft™ features seamless integration with FIX Dynamics HMI/SCADA component for data acquisition from the production lines. This winning combination enhances the DrinkSoft™ solution, allowing superior data integrity, OPC-compliant flexibility, rapid deployment and reduced engineering costs.
DrinkSoft™ and the PRODAC line of production management applications enrich the Intellution product range with innovative vertical solutions that meet the process manufacturers’ complete production needs. Together, Intellution and PRODAC give the packaged goods manufacturer the competitive edge: superior technology to meet challenging operations requirements in the plant, optimized decision-making, and the connectivity to leverage the results throughout the enterprise, from the control room up to the boardroom. |
