Archived News Releases - 2001NETCON Releases VisualPlant Edition of FirstPAGE Alarm Manager - July 2001 NETCON announced that it is adding a VisualPlant Special Edition to its FirstPAGE Alarm Manager product line. To satisfy requests from one of its customers, Ford, NETCON teamed up with EMT, the producer of VisualPlant, to incorporate wireless messaging into EMT's VisualPlant product. Given the open architecture of NETCON's FirstPAGE Alarm Manager (FPAM) and EMT's VisualPlant, it took less than 3 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 July 2001, the first VisualPlant Edition of FirstPAGE Alarm Manager to Ford Motor Companies Dearborne 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 4 years and are their only corporately endorsed/approved messaging products. A new FPAM Agent was developed so that VisualPlant Administrators would simply have to install the FPAM Gateway for VisualPlant to page enable their entire application. Along with the FPAM Gateway, a configuration agent was developed for FPAM that takes advantage of VisualPlant's unique system architecture to provide for easy configuration and maintenance.
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