Archived News Releases - 2000NETCON Releases FactoryLink Edition of FirstPAGE Alarm Manager - May 2000 NETCON announced that it is adding a FactoryLink Special Edition to its FirstPAGE Alarm Manager product line. To satisfy requests from two of its customers, Ford and Goodyear, NETCON teamed up with Bob Reed and Mark Rutherford of USDATA and Dan Reed of High Tech Enterprises (HTE), a USDATA Tier One Partner (TOP), to incorporate wireless messaging into USDATA's FactoryLink product. Given the open architecture of NETCON's FirstPAGE Alarm Manager (FPAM) and USDATA's FactoryLink, it took less than 2 man weeks to develop an industrial strength solution that is not based on unreliable DDE agent technology or "klugey" RS-232 serial port text matching algorithms that are not able to keep up with any kind of real volume. The solution had to run reliably 24 hrs/day, 7 days/wk. NETCON will be shipping, at the end of May 2000, the first FactoryLink Edition of FirstPAGE Alarm Manager to Darren Rawlinson from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's Wolverhampton, England Plant. NETCON was chosen for the job because of its experience in plant floor communications systems and because of its FirstPAGE suite of proven products. The FirstPAGE suite of products have been providing alarm notification and messaging for General Motors and DaimlerChrysler for over 3 years and are their only corporately endorsed/approved messaging products. HTE was selected because of their in-depth knowledge and experience with the FactoryLink product line. A new FPAM pak was developed so that FactoryLink Administrators would simply have to install the pak to page enable their entire application. Along with the FPAM pak, a configuration agent was developed for FPAM that takes advantage of FactoryLink's unique system architecture to provide for easy configuration and maintenance.
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