COPA-DATA is the technological leader for ergonomic and highly-dynamic process solutions. The company, founded in 1987, develops the software zenon for HMI/SCADA, Dynamic Production Reporting and integrated PLC systems at its headquarters in Austria. zenon is sold through its own offices in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as partners and distributors throughout the world. Customers benefit from local contact persons and local support thanks to a decentralized corporate structure. As an independent company, COPA-DATA can act quickly and flexibly, continues to set new standards in functionality and ease of use and leads the market trends. Over 135,000 installed systems in more than 90 countries provide companies in the Food & Beverage, Energy & Infrastructure, Automotive and Pharmaceutical sectors with new scope for efficient automation.

Adroit Technologies is a privately held software development company that has been developing award winning real-time software for the industrial automation markets for over 25 years. The principal activities of the company are product development, consulting and solutions development, primarily in the industrial sector. Year founded: 1989 Revenue: $11 - 100 million (2014 est.)

zenon® is COPA-DATA’s industrial automation software for ergonomic and highly dynamic process solutions. Based on the latest Microsoft technologies and products such as the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Windows 10, it allows for end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions – from the field level up to the Azure cloud platform. Customers from both private businesses and the public sector highly benefit from COPA-DATA’s software zenon in terms of operational excellence, new business insights, increased productivity/efficiency, savings of valuable resources such as energy and water, significant cost savings and more.

Andoit Technologies believes that in the year 2020, the world will be more connected, wireless networks will connect more machines than people and M2M technology will help us to be more energy and cost efficient, safer and more secure. This is the era of connected intelligence. With over 25 years’ experience in delivering scalable SCADA solutions into industries such as water and waste water, utilities, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications and a host of other industries, Adroit Technologies was placed to leverage its SCADA solution and build the Adroit M2M platform. Adroit’s Agent/Object architecture within the I/O Server offers a lot more built-in functionality such as scripting, transacting data into databases etc. saving users massive development time.

LG Innotek, Samsung Electronics, Texas Instruments, BMW Group, DÜRR, Volkswagen, Audi, Kuka, Alstom Grid, Siemens, Sprecher Automation, Adelholzener Alpenquellen, Bonduelle, Bosch Packaging Systems, Krones, Baxter, Lifescane, Roche, ABB, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Barilla, Continental, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Ford, Heineken, Microsoft, Nestle, Dr. Reddy's, Pfizer, PepsiCo, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, SABMiller, Thyssen-Krupp, Vattenfall

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