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RELEASE Company Contact: Trena Carr Online Development’s xCoupler Module Receives Knoxville, TN – Control Engineering magazine has tapped Online Development’s xCoupler enterprise transaction module for one of the magazine’s 45 Editors’ Choice Awards. “Throughout the year, Control Engineering editors cover thousands of products and select from the ones with exceptional market impact, technological advancement, and service to the industry,” says Mark Hoske, Control Engineering’s Editor-in-Chief. “The editors nominate what we believe to be the best products based on those criteria." xCouplers modules install into factory floor PLCs to provide a simple way to exchange factory floor and enterprise server data. They provide a seamless and secure method to provide real time information flow between the plant floor control systems and business systems than conventional HMI- or PC-based custom software methods. Readers of Control Engineering are being asked to vote for their own favorites among the editors’ selections to determine the winners of the third annual Engineers’ Choice Awards. They will choose the top winner in each of eight product categories. The winners will be revealed during the Editors’ Choice Awards ceremony, held in conjunction with National Manufacturing Week, March 20-24, near Chicago. “We are very pleased to receive this award from the editors of Control Engineering magazine,” commented Ron Monday, Online Development’s President and CEO. “Being recognized by the leading publication that serves the control engineering profession is truly an honor.” About Control Engineering Magazine Control Engineering magazine, a Reed Business Information publication, is read by nearly 80,000 individuals involved in the control engineering function in manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. Recipients are individuals with engineering and other job functions that recommend, specify, and/or buy automation products or systems. About Online DevelopmentOnline Development is a "fast track" developer of factory automation hardware and software for OEMs such as Rockwell Automation and ProSoft products in the industrial market space. Since its founding in 1989, the company has focused on developing the technologies needed to enable various leading brands of PLCs to communicate with either field devices or other brands of PLCs. These technologies provide connectivity between various proprietary factory automation controls and barcode scanners, modems, printers, HMIs, sensors, popular factory/warehouse network systems, and enterprise systems to provide real-time communications throughout the enterprise. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Online Development is privately owned and has offices in Cleveland, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio and Barcelona, Spain. Online Development, Inc. Headquarters Address: 7209 Chapman Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920 Main Telephone: 800-625-8678 Website: www.oldi.com. Press Contacts |