Canary Labs Trend Link 4.0 Data Viewer Offered In FactorySuite Partner Program

Business Wire, March 10, 1999

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999--Wonderware Corporation and Canary Labs of Martinsburg, Pa., announced jointly Wednesday that Canary Labs' Trend Link 4.0 software will be marketed by Wonderware as part of its FactorySuite(TM) Partners Program.

Trend Link 4.0 is a powerful trend viewer client that allows industrial automation users to easily display data from Wonderware's IndustrialSQL Server(TM) real-time relational database. Trend Link is an ActiveX control that seamlessly drops into containers such as Wonderware's InTouch(R) human-machine interface (HMI) software for accessing, viewing, analyzing and manipulating process data.

"The Trend Link package is very intuitive and easy to use while providing great flexibility to the user to analyze data in a friendly format," said Ted Hill, IndustrialSQL Server product manager. "TrendLink's powerful trending capabilities complement FactorySuite by simplifying access to and visibility of data collected within IndustrialSQL Server. Trend Link can connect to multiple IndustrialSQL servers, can show multiple independent scaling ranges, contain various drawing methods and provide flexible presentation of the data."

"We are pleased to join Wonderware's FactorySuite Partners program because we believe the combination of Trend Link and IndustrialSQL Server creates a powerful solution for trending applications in virtually any vertical market," said Gary Stern, president of Canary Labs.

Founded in 1985, Canary Labs specializes in trending applications and components utilizing the latest technology available. Canary Labs is dedicated to providing quality, plant-wide trending solutions which allow users to quickly select, view and analyze high volume process data.

For more information on Trend Link, visit the Wonderware Partners Web site at http://www.wonderware.com/Partners or contact Ed Stern, Canary Labs, Brownstone Building, Martinsburg, PA 16662. Telephone: 814/793-3770. E-mail: estern@canarylabs.com. Visit the Canary Labs Web site at http://www.canarylabs.com

With headquarters in Irvine, Wonderware is a unit of British-based Siebe plc and a member of the Siebe Intelligent Automation division. The Wonderware FactorySuite(TM) 2000 software toolkit is an integrated set of Windows NT-based application development modules used to configure factory automation systems for supervisory control and data acquisition; PC-based control; WIP tracking; batch process management; and the IndustrialSQL Server real-time relational database.

For further information contact Don Allen, Director of Corporate Relations, Wonderware Corporation, 100 Technology Drive, Irvine, Calif. 92618. Phone: 949/727-3200. Fax: 949/727-3270. Or visit the Wonderware Web site at http://www.wonderware.com.