Archived News Releases - 2000

Goodyear GB Ltd. Chooses FactoryLink and FirstPAGE Alarm Manager for Plant-wide Scada System - September 2000

Goodyear GB Ltd. have recently installed FirstPAGE Alarm Manager software alongside an existing installation of USDATA's FactoryLink to extend the capabilities of the SCADA system at their factory in Wolverhampton.

The existing FactoryLink SCADA system monitors various items of the plant providing both production and status information to users distributed across the site. Goodyear GB Ltd. wanted to extend their SCADA system to allow users to be paged with alarms as they were generated.

The FirstPAGE Alarm Manager software by NETCON Technologies, tightly integrates with FactoryLink allowing alarms to be generated within FactoryLink to be routed to pagers automatically. The versatility of the FirstPAGE Alarm Manager software means that each alarm generated within FactoryLink can be passed directly to a specific user (or a number of users), sending their pager the alarm information as a text message. Escalation capability is integral with the FirstPAGE Alarm Manager software meaning that alarms can be escalated automatically if the alarm is not cleared within a set time. This then ensures that all personnel are only notified of alarms that need to be acted on eliminating any nuisance messaging. Upon installation and commissioning, the FirstPAGE software was tested with a high level of pages to ensure that alarms would be passed to the pagers in all situations. Both FactoryLink and FirstPAGE Alarm Manager passed this test with flying colours.

Goodyear GB Ltd. have found the information gathered by the FactoryLink SCADA system extremely useful and the recent addition of the FirstPAGE Alarm Manager software means that they can now significantly extend the uses of their existing FactoryLink SCADA system.

Darren Rawlinson
Senior Project Engineer
Goodyear - GB Ltd.

About NETCON Technologies Inc.
Founded in 1991, NETCON Technologies is the global leader in alarm and event messaging routing for the enterprise. Using wireless messaging, and LED sign control systems, NETCON provides automated messaging software to assist organizations in delivering alarms and alerts to the right individual, whenever, wherever. Designed explicitly for high volume and rapid delivery, NETCON's solutions service some of the largest organizations in the world.

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