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(2001), "Sequencia Corporation announces sale of its automation business to Rockwell Automation", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2001.03321bab.001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Sequencia Corporation announces sale of its automation business to Rockwell Automation
Sequencia Corporation announces sale of its automation business to Rockwell Automation
Keyword Rockwell Automation
Sequencia Corporation, the leading supplier of virtual manufacturing and product collaboration solutions for the process industries, announced today that it has sold its batch automation business to Rockwell Automation, a business of Rockwell International Corporation. The transaction allows Sequencia to focus on its processPoint virtual manufacturing e-business including its product knowledge and General Recipe management technology. Rockwell's purchase of Sequencia's Responsive Process Manufacturing Series (rpmSeries™) products and supporting engineering services group increases the breadth of Rockwell's process automation business.
"This transaction allows Sequencia to focus exclusively on the dynamic opportunity of processPoint", said Bob Pape, president and CEO at Sequencia. "We will continue to deliver a full solution for product collaboration and virtual manufacturing going all the way to the plant floor – only now with Rockwell Automation as a partner. Our customers are assured of the continued growth and investment in the rpmSeries products by Rockwell. We believe this will benefit our customers directly and strengthens our ability to deliver on the overall Sequencia vision". Sequencia will continue operations in the USA and Europe with major offices in Phoenix, Chicago, Philadelphia, the UK and Germany.
This transaction adds Sequencia's rpmSeries™, a comprehensive suite of products that manages product change and execution solutions for process manufacturers, to the Rockwell Automation family of process products. Included in the transaction are oBatch™, mTrack™, sProduction™, and eProcedure™. The development, support, services, and administrative personnel associated with the automation business were also included in the transaction.
"Sequencia's technology and industry leading expertise further strengthen our ability to better serve customers by adding world-class batch control capabilities along with enterprise-wide connectivity to those batch applications", said Ron Wichter, senior vice president, Rockwell Automation Software and Services Group.
More information about Rockwell Automation is available on the Web site at: www.rockwellautomation.com