Emerson Network Power Doubles the Life Span of VME Boards

Tempe, Ariz. (PRWEB) September 22, 2011

An extension of the life span of three widely-used VME boards takes the guaranteed production life of the oldest to at least 14 years. Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity?, today underlined its commitment to VME technology, in an industry where embedded board manufacturers routinely support their products for seven years in production.

The three VME processor boards from Emerson Network Power ? the MVME5500, introduced in 2002, the MVME6100 (2004) and MVME3100 (2006) ? are used in industrial automation, medical imaging, military and other applications. Emerson Network Power is guaranteeing production availability of all three boards, which feature Power Architecture processors from Freescale Semiconductor, until at least 2016 and has the capability to extend the life span even further depending on customer demand.

The new commitment to an extended product life span follows a re-design which has replaced certain obsolete components with newer, functionally-equivalent parts. The board respin is transparent to customers, which need make no change to production tooling to accept the new versions.

Emerson Network Power has also introduced a new variant of the MVME6100, featuring 2GB DDR memory. The original 1GB version continues to be available.

Director of marketing for Embedded Computing at Emerson Network Power, Paul Virgo, said: ?Emerson Network Power combines financial stability as a division of Emerson (a Fortune 500 company) with the design and manufacturing infrastructure required to produce embedded boards with life spans longer than ten years. This life span extension of three popular VME boards provides firm proof of Emerson Network Power?s ability to provide long-term production and revision management capability to customers who use our VME standard products.?

More information about VME products and technology from Emerson Network Power can be found at http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/embeddedcomputing.

About Emerson Network Power

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity? from grid to chip for telecommunication networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Emerson Network Power provides innovative solutions and expertise in areas including AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, infrastructure management, and connectivity. All solutions are supported globally by local Emerson Network Power service technicians. For more information on Emerson Network Power?s embedded computing solutions, including ATCA?, COM Express?, CompactPCI?, embedded computers and motherboards, OpenVPX?, VMEbus and the RapiDex? board customization service for original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators in the telecommunications, industrial automation, aerospace/defense and medical markets, visit http://www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/EmbeddedComputing. Learn more about Emerson Network Power products and services at http://www.EmersonNetworkPower.com.

About Emerson

Emerson, based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and tools and storage businesses. Sales in fiscal 2010 were $ 21 billion. For more information, visit http://www.Emerson.com.

Business-Critical Continuity, Emerson Network Power and the Emerson Network Power logo are trademarks and service marks of Emerson Electric Co. PICMG, AdvancedTCA, ATCA, COM Express and CompactPCI are registered trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. OpenVPX is a trademark of VITA. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. ? 2011 Emerson Electric Co.

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Pharmica Consulting to Host its 6th SharePoint for the Life Sciences Industry Workshop

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Pharmica Consulting (http://www.pharmicaconsulting.com) has served the life sciences industry for many years, and has become the de facto expert in SharePoint and collaboration. As part of its continued service to the industry, Pharmica will be hosting its 6th SharePoint workshop on March 8th and 9th in Princeton, NJ.

?Pharmica?s latest SharePoint workshop is in many ways a product of requests we?ve had from clients. They really liked the workshops we?d done in the past, and wanted more,? said Eric Lake, Partner with Pharmica Consulting. ?We were thrilled to be approached by a few of our clients who wanted to use our workshop as the means to share information with one another with regards to their collaboration strategies, SharePoint applications, and best practices. The result is a longer workshop filled with even more interaction and networking than ever before. In addition, industry members determined the agenda via monthly teleconferences. It is truly a workshop for the life sciences industry.? Pharmica Consulting is the leading expert in SharePoint and collaboration within the life sciences industry. It counts most of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies as some of its clients, and has worked with many biotech companies as well.

?It?s really an exciting time in the industry and especially at Pharmica,? said Matt Kiernan, Partner with Pharmica Consulting. ?The collaboration space has really been heating up. Given the nature of the industry, with so much focus on outsourcing and partnering, SharePoint has been a solution that most if not all companies that have been turning to. Pharmica has always been an Operational Excellence company ? that classical triumvirate of people, process, and technology is more relevant now than ever. SharePoint really underscores this. If you don?t take all three areas into account, you?re not going to be successful. SharePoint is just the technology piece ? without those other two legs, you?re not going to get the value out of it that you want and need. The workshop is a way for many companies to get together and talk about the things they?ve done that have worked, and where they?ve gone wrong in the past.?

Greg Cohee, Pharmica Consulting?s head of eClinical Services, concurs. ?I?ve managed several collaboration projects with several different clients and although they often have different objectives, you see a lot of the same struggles. We get approached by companies big and small looking for our SharePoint services because they know we have deep experience with Operational Excellence coupled with industry expertise. They know we?re going to deliver with a solution that?s right for them, but that takes all of Pharmica?s experience into account. These same companies really get a lot out of our workshops as well.?

Those interested in learning more about Pharmica Consulting?s service offerings can visit http://www.PharmicaConsulting.com. To request additional information, please contact Eric Lake at 973-945-4482 or Greg Cohee at 215-579-1650.

About Pharmica Consulting

Pharmica Consulting, one of the life sciences industry?s leading consulting firms, provides a variety of offerings designed to help pharmaceutical and biotech clients achieve true Operational Excellence. Consultants at Pharmica invest the time needed to truly understand a client?s specific challenges?and tailor solutions to help them create a more profitable business environment. Pharmica Consulting knows how to build effective strategies?and deliver against those strategies as promised.

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