Wonderware expands their business with cutting-edge operator panels from Beijer Electronics.

Wonderware chose Beijer Electronics when looking for a partner to supply industrial class operator panels for their new Wonderware Compact Panel offerings.

August 2007, Wonderware signed a strategic agreement with Beijer Electronics in which Wonderware gains access to a range of high-end CE-based touch panels. Wonderware recently launched these as Wonderware Compact Panels world-wide. The Wonderware Compact Panel offering consists of a bundled solution that includes a runtime license for a subset of Wonderware nTouch 10.0 Software and Beijer Electronics’ operator panel hardware.

For Wonderware, this new offering complements the existing Industrial Computers product line, expanding Wonderware business into the CE-based HMI market. For Beijer Electronics, who develops both HMI software and hardware, this is an unusual agreement. “This cooperation with Wonderware is inspiring to us, and to our hardware development in particular, in meeting the specific needs and demands of a hardware-only HMI solution”, Mr. Conny Persson, CEO of Beijer Electronics Products says. 

New alliances for end-user benefit
“Wonderware and Beijer Electronics cooperating like this is an example of alliances that we will see more of in the future”, Mr. Conny Persson, CEO of Beijer Electronics Products predicts, and continues: “In a global industry with increasingly high demands to flexibility and quality, new types of partnerships between suppliers are required to provide the best possible solutions for end-users”.

A perfect match for OEMs and machine builders
The combination of the high-end hardware from Beijer
Electronics and Wonderware’s award-winning HMI software offers OEMs and machine builders a powerful visualization solution that is easy to implement. Mr. David Gardner, WIC Product Manager Industrial Computers at Wonderware, explains “Since the development environment for these Compact Panels is the same Wonderware Development Studio that our customers are currently using, with InTouch 10.0 and Wonderware System Platform 3.0, any of our existing customers will be able to quickly build applications and use the new Compact Panels as part of a networked software solution.”. The tough certifications and the appealing design of Beijer Electronics’ operator panels instantly appealed to Wonderware. David Gardner continues: “The operator panel platform from Beijer Electronics met our requirements for Class I, Division 2 applications. It also presented a clean, modern, stylistic design with the OEM adaptability we needed,” David Gardner continues.

Suitable for all industries
“Wonderware Compact Panels will be marketed horizontally into all of our current markets, including food and beverage,
water and waste water, and packaging”, David Gardner explains. The models include three touch interface panels with 6.5”, 10.4” and 15.1” TFT displays. This operator panel platform is built for industrial environments and offers NEMA 4X / IP66 and UL1604 Class I, Div. 2 enclosure ratings.

About Wonderware
Wonderware is a business unit of Invensys plc. Wonderware is a leading supplier of industrial automation and information software solutions. Having sold more than 450,000 software licenses in over 100,000 plants worldwide, Wonderware has customers in virtually every global industry — including Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Electronics, Metals, Automotive and more.

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