8 October 2008

The conference was held at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas

The North American winners of the annual Wonderware Open 2008 have been announced during the first of the WonderWorld global conference series in Las Vegas.

Ontario Clean Water Agency won the Best SCADA Application. Wonderware has provided OCWA with the ability to create standardised applications that can be deployed at a central hub or across multiple sites in weeks. Portland General Electric won the Best HMI Application category for its use of Wonderware HMI software to manage its demand-response programme, which provides electrical grid capacity by linking customer-owned generators as part of a ‘virtual power plant’.

The Best Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Application winner was New Belgium Brewing Company of Colorado for its use of Wonderware applications to manage its long-standing programmes to reduce, reuse and recycle. Cytec Engineered Materials of New Jersey won the Best Manufacturing Execution System Application category. As a materials manufacturer that specialises in high-performance composite materials and adhesives for commercial and military aerospace, automotive and marine applications, Cytec chose to implement an initial pilot manufacturing process based on Wonderware MES software. This demonstrated Wonderware's capabilities to address a number of CEM's key business requirements, including the ability to integrate their business systems to provide real-time information to customers, and reduce scrap and rework to increase production efficiencies.

"The Wonderware Open is now in its 14th year and we've been able to give recognition to a wide range of innovative applications across virtually every vertical industry," said Mark Davidson, vice president of global marketing for Wonderware.

The winners of each category compete for the Wonderware Open 2008 Pinnacle Award during the Las Vegas conference. Entries for both the North American awards and the European awards – to be announced separately at WonderWorld in Copenhagen - have been judged by industry experts, trade magazine editors and Wonderware. The winners were selected based on the solution's impact on product quality, productivity, responsiveness and faster time to market.

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