Verticore Technologies Partners with Symbol Technologies to Deliver Wireless Solutions to Process Industries

Source: Verticore Technologies
Verticore Technologies announced today that it is partnering with Symbol to develop and market wireless Operational Effectiveness solutions for industrial users.

Under the agreement, the Verticore Productivity Solution (VPS) software will be developed for Symbol's PDT 28XX series handheld wireless computers. Symbol, in turn, will leverage Verticore's sales channel and domain expertise to expand sales of its handheld devices.

"Our partnership with Symbol, a world leader in wireless devices, will enable us to create tremendous value for our clients without regard to physical constraints," said Brent Potts, Verticore's vice president of marketing. "We anticipate this mobile capability will dramatically improve the market breadth of our offerings."

He also said that Verticore Technologies would be unique in being able to offer plant operators in the field full, untethered access to the same Operational Effectiveness resources as operators sitting at control-room consoles. "Those resources include dynamic work process management tools, best practices for proper operations and rigorous compliance assurance," he said.

John Muller, Symbol's Director of Business Development, said that Symbol also is excited by the partnership. "Verticore's holistic approach to Operational Effectiveness is unique, and we're delighted to join them in delivering the bottom-line benefits to users," he said.

Dick Hill, ARC Advisory group's vice president of automation, praised the partnership and noted that wireless capabilities will allow Verticore Technologies to deliver the versatility that their customers need and want.

"With the rapidly emerging collaborative manufacturing era, the need for operating personnel to be connected in real-time requires going beyond the conventional control room and console view of the plant," Hill said. "This agreement adds the important mobility dimension to the Verticore Productivity Solution. Being able to receive important key performance indicators, instructions or directives anywhere in the plant will increase operational effectiveness and result in improved plant performance."

Verticore plans to announce more details about their wireless offerings later this year, Potts added.

The Verticore Productivity Solution accomplishes in a unique way the needed steps of connecting, aligning, and dynamically managing the work processes within an organization. Through a personalized portal interface or wireless handheld device, each employee has access to all the information, services, and applications they need to accomplish the right work. Verticore's Scorecard helps align each employee's priorities with key success factors, and then helps them track their path towards accomplishment. Once employees are aligned in their efforts, work processes are dynamically managed in a way that reflects industry best practices.

Companies that have instituted the solutions on which VPS was modeled have realized more than $25 million in documented savings annually.