IAS: Home for local/international manufacturers says Red Lion exec

Source：Ringier Release Date：2012-11-15 299

Metalworking

Red Lion has participated in the industry show for five consecutive years. As a domestic first-class industry show, the IAS 2012 has become the home for the domestic and international well-known manufacturers.

In this trade show, Red Lion has demonstrated communication, monitoring, and control products in the field of industrial automation, including industrial Ethernet switches, M2M cellulars, Human-machine interface, panel meters, multi-loop process controllers, data acquisition protocol converters, and RTU and I/O modules. Among these products, G3 Kadet series operation interface panels, PAX2S strain gauges, and Red Lion N-Tron series of high voltage Ethernet switches are the new products launched in 2012.

Herein, we would like to highlight Andon management server, a solution based on LCD TV, launched in Oct. 2011 by Red Lion. Given the fact that flat screen LCD TV is rapidly becoming the industry standard tool for displaying information of the key performance indicators in factory fields, Red Lion launched a special solution Andon management server. It factures in collecting factory field information by connection, and utilizing TV show to help remote employees accurately and rapidly acquire information through network interface. Consequently it can achieve the purpose of real-time maintenance and help remote managers to follow up the latest process performance. With functions of SMS and e-mail sending status updates and reminders, these products can provide the ultimate visual signals Andon convey, and can be applied in the places of any production, moving, packaging products, such as conventional factory automation industry. Currently, the market growth mainly comes from mobile sites and process automation.

Industry trends

By improving processes and increasing productivity, to maintain a competitive advantage in today's ever-growing global economy is the goal that production enterprises seek. With the development of industrial automation, "total solutions" is the trend. For further improving productivity and profit capacity and improving company competitiveness, in last two years Red Lion gradually acquired two American local enterprises both with high market influence-N-Tron and Sixnet. Red Lion sought to expand its product line, to make company business cover different levels from management and control to field application, to expend its single product research production to total solutions, and to provide value-added service according to different customers’ needs, thereby further consolidating its leading status in the industry.

According to statistics announced by China government since July this year, local investments reach about RMB 7 trillion. A new round of investment flows approach. The investment on machinery industry investment focuses on two aspects: one is brought by government policy fine-tuning, mainly on railway equipment, nuclear power, and mechanical engineering areas. What do you think about Chinese Government measures for "rescuing" market from the initially 4 trillion to 7 trillion now?

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