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Xycom Automation is a leading global supplier of innovative industrial automation solutions. The company's principal products include PC-based, open architecture, visualization and control offerings. The need for information, from the corporate office to the plant floor, is driving the growth of today's open architecture systems. Open architecture:
Eliminates dependence on single vendors with proprietary hardware and software
Reduces development and implementation costs while increasing computing power
Eliminates the cumbersome problem of networking dissimilar operating systems, each with its own database, in both the factory automation environment and the enterprise as a whole