Paris, France – 15th June 2009. Geensys has announced that ControlBuild, its front-to-back, Model-based environment for the design, development, validation, deployment and maintenance of control and automation systems, has won the prestigious Industry Award at the Siemens Innovation Grand Prix 2009. Geensys competed against a large number of companies to win the Award.
The Siemens Innovation Grand Prix 2009 Industry Award recognises the successful use of ControlBuild by RATP, the Paris public transport operator, for the integration and qualification of its new Ouragan control system for Lines 3 and 5 of the Paris metro. ControlBuild was used to create a model-based simulation environment to validate the train and station-based electronic control systems developed by Siemens, Ansaldo and AREVA TA. The ControlBuild simulation solution not only significantly reduced the cost and time involved in developing and validating the electronic control systems but enabled the work to be undertaken without disrupting the daily operation of the lines.
“We are extremely pleased to win the prestigious Industry Award at the Siemens Innovation Grand Prix 2009,” said Eliane Fourgeau, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Geensys. “It not only recognises the growing importance of model-based design for control and automation applications but also the innovative achievements of Geensys as a whole.”
The Siemens Innovation Grand Prix 2009 recognises advanced research and innovation in the areas of Industry, Energy / Environment and Health. The awards ceremony was held on 4th June 2009 at SERI 2009 (the European Research & Innovation Exhibition) in Paris.
“ControlBuild is applicable to control systems development across a diverse range of markets from industrial control and automation through to the medical, transportation, utility and automotive industries,” said Raphaël Allègre, Geensys’ Product Marketing Manager for ControlBuild. “The award recognises the outstanding design benefits that ControlBuild delivers, from improved design productivity and quality to cost and time savings in the overall development cycle.”
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About ControlBuild
ControlBuild is an innovative and highly integrated solution dedicated to the specific needs of control systems engineers that facilitates the creation and implementation of automation applications and distributed control systems based on an object-oriented design approach. ControlBuild enables control systems engineers to progress seamlessly through each phase of the application development cycle without the need to recapture data. Not only does this eliminate the potential for design errors and save time but also facilitates the creation of homogenous and coherent design databases. Key features and functions of ControlBuild include a variety of graphical interactive editors for component-based design covering IEC 61131-3, C and electrical circuit diagrams, a structured set of component libraries (electro-mechanical, handling objects with travel and detection rules, toolboxes, regulation filters and automatic control functions etc) and a simulation environment for control software validation prior to integration and commissioning. It also includes automatic code generators for C and leading PLCs including those from Schneider, Siemens and Rockwell, and the automatic generation of project documentation.
About Geensys
Created through the formal merger of two of France’s most innovative and dynamic companies in the embedded market - TNI Software and Ayrton Technology – Geensys is a powerful new force in the provision of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software IP. Geensys is privately-owned and operates on a global scale through direct sales offices in France, Germany, Japan and China and through resellers in the USA and Europe. Geensys brings together a broad range of complementary embedded services and products founded on a commitment to quality, backed by an extensive, well-proven track record and designed to satisfy the embedded development requirements of the global automotive, aerospace, defence, railway, medical, industrial automation and telecommunications industries.
