Monday, January 09, 2012
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RoviSys will participate in the Rockwell Automation on the Move event in Singapore on 10 Jan, 2012. Our booth is in the Galleria Ballroom of the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Jim Riccardi, Managing Director of RoviSys Asia, will present a technical session on legacy migration which describes the strategies employed to manage risk and ensure success. RoviSys OPC90 is at the core of Rockwell's Legacy Migration Solution for Bailey Network90 and Infi90 DCS to Plant PAX.
RAOTM brings Rockwell and Partners together to help inform users about products and solutions for industrial automation and information in factory and process applications. RoviSys is a Solution Provider partner with Rockwell, with appointments for Control, Process and Information. We have been applying Rockwell technologies to batch process control for two decades. Our office in Singapore serves as a base for projects in Asia including Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, China and Japan. Sign up for the Singapore RAOTM.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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We wish all of our friends, customers, vendors, partners and EVERYONE a Happy Holiday Season. We appreciate all of you being a part of our successful 2011, and we very much look forward to helping you have a great 2012!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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If you are planning on attending the upcoming 2011 PowerGen International Conference which is being held in Las Vegas from December 13th through the 15th be sure to stop by booth number 8335 and learn about RoviSys’ automation capabilities including boiler controls, cogeneration, combined cycle, renewables and transmission/distribution. The exhibition is being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center and runs from 11:30am to 6:00pm on December 13th, 9:00am to 5:00pm on December 14th and 9:00am to 2:00pm on December 15th. We hope to see you there!
Register on-line here.
Monday, November 14, 2011
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The Worcester Telegram & Gazette talks with RoviSys's own Chris Phillips, John Turk and Peter Fox about our new Northeast office in Marlboro, MA. Read the article here.
Friday, November 11, 2011
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If you are in the Windy City November 16th or 17th, plan to stop by booth #305 at the Rockwell Automation Fair to find out about our Legacy DCS Migration activities, Steel Process Controls experience, along with our capabilities to provide automation and information integration in other process industries. The show is at McCormick Place West, in Chicago, and runs from 8 to 5 on Wednesday and 8 to 4 on Thursday. We hope to see you there!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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(Aurora, OH) The RoviSys Company has signed a lease for a 5,100 square foot sales and engineering office in Marlborough, Mass., to serve a growing client base in the northeastern United States. Initial staffing is expected to be 15 people, most local hires with control system engineering and information software backgrounds.
One of the largest independent manufacturing automation and information systems integrators in North America, RoviSys serves clients in a number of industry niches. Growth in New England has been primarily driven by the company’s expertise in life sciences automation.
“We establish offices where we have a base of existing business in a region and can predict growth with confidence,” said Chris Phillips, newly appointed northeast regional manager for RoviSys. “Boston and New England easily meet these two requirements.”
While the privately held company does not disclose sales figures, Phillips said RoviSys is having a record year. Boston joins Apex, N.C., Aurora, Ohio and Singapore as locations of RoviSys offices. The company has more than 240 employees and has added staff in all locations this year.
Services include manufacturing control, information integration, industrial energy management, building automation and legacy migration for life sciences, chemical, glass, power, oil and gas and other process industries.
Phillips also said RoviSys is growing in non-manufacturing segments like building automation and data center energy monitoring where clients are gaining significant benefits from applying standards-based, powerful and flexible industrial control and information systems in their environments.
While RoviSys staff successfully implements projects in many areas of North America and the world far from its current offices, Phillips said a regional presence reinforces the company’s commitment to providing highly responsive services and support.
Northeast Sales Manager Pete Fox and project engineering staff have been working out of a temporary office in Cambridge since March. The new office is at 377 Simarano Drive, Suite 100, in Marlborough.
Phillips has been with RoviSys since 1995 and will be responsible for all aspects of operations in the northeast. He joined the company in 1995 and has led many major projects for the company’s life sciences clients. He is a certified professional engineer for control systems and graduated from Penn State Behrend with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering technology. He has also earned an associate of science degree in biomedical equipment technology.
Prior to pursuing an engineering degree, he was a nuclear reactor operator in the US nuclear submarine fleet.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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It may not have been as big of a deal as RIM's outage last week, but for RoviSys customers we are sure that Windstream's regional outage on Wednesday was not helpful. RoviSys engineers first noticed problems sending email around midnight Tues, Oct 11. For our Singapore office this was noon on Wed and they were at full throttle, when suddenly the visibility was reduced, at least for projects on GrandView US. At least they had their own servers on-line with replication of the US database, so no collisions resulted. But at 7 a.m. Wed the the lack of T1 service in our corner of Ohio was a bummer for both Aurora HQ and the Apex, NC office. The Windstream outage kept the email server in Aurora offline, affecting messaging to anyone outside from both offices. Sorry if we missed your message.
Activity in the offices went on, with phone calls and personal visits in lieu of email. For the 35 engineers in our growing N.C. office, it was especially frustrating as they were cut off not only from customers email, they couldn't even pass email notes to each other, or access GrandView via the RoviSys internal network.
When service was restored about 4:30 p.m. on Wed, a slew of backed up messages went out. You may have received email with weird time stamps. We hope it didn't cause too much confusion and we really appreciate your patience and understanding. Stay tuned for a message about our new dual vendor redundant Internet connection.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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See RoviSys in Booth #421 at the Facility Decisions Expo in Las Vegas this Oct 11-12. We will demonstrate a solution to migrate from Johnson Controls Metasys(R) to an open system that you choose. This innovative approach allows you to run both the new system and Metasys in parallel while validating the new system.
Tired of annual maintenance contracts? Want to include building automation status on your process control screens? Visit us to learn how to take back control of your facility automation systems.
Learn more about Facility Decisions and register for the show here.
Here is a link directly to our Building Automation Pages.
Friday, September 09, 2011
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National Instruments and RoviSys are teaming up to host the September 2011 NEOhio LabVIEW user group meeting at RoviSys in Aurora, OH.
Hit this link to sign up at NI.com.
We're putting on a technical presentation and serving Damon's ribs and chicken for dinner. The user group meetings are a great time to meet some of the local people using LabVIEW and share ideas over a few beers.
Here's the official abstract:
Serial ports are disappearing. We miss them because they made integration to outside devices easy; just open a port and send some data! USB devices have never been quite as approachable and usually require the a programming API to be made available by the manufacturer. With NI’s VISA customer driver development wizard, we can easily create custom USB device drivers that let us open a pipe to USB devices and send commands using some familiar VISA functions.
During this presentation, we’ll start from the beginning with a popular USB Desktop Missile Launcher toy and show you how to create a custom driver, access it from LabVIEW, and even how to use some USB packet sniffing tools to derive the necessary control commands by “listening” to the host application talk to the device. The end result is a set of custom functions that let you add missile launching to any of your applications and gives you another tool in your arsenal of interfacing to unusual devices.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
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Team RoviSys was 40+ strong on May 15th at the 2011 Cleveland Rite Aid Marathon, Half Marathon, and 10K. At the RoviSys Fall Planning Conference the management team accepted, with open arms, a challenge to rejuvenate their body and spirit by competing in the various races. Join us in congratulating all of our marathon, half-marathon and 10k participants.