CAN-Based data acquisition unit

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:00

The embedded systems segment has developed a CAN-based embedded data acquisition unit. This hardware running on ARM9 CPU integrates e.g. machines or devices to back-end information systems.

Protocol options: CANopen, J1939, DeviceNet, ISOBUS and customer-specific CAN-protocols. The platform can be used with Wapice’s CAN remote diagnostic tools and Wapice Remote Management web portal. The compilation and development environments are also available, in case you want to develop your own applications.

Should you have any questions do not hesitate to ask. We can build a solution meeting your needs.

Product Manager
Tuomo Heikkilä
firstname.lastname[at]wapice.com
+358 6 319 4000

See also www.wapice.com/CAN

Certified Scrum personnel

Monday, 24 May 2010 06:31

New Summium 5 Sales Configurator released

Monday, 19 April 2010 10:45

Wapice has released a new version of Summium sales confiugrator at ICT Expo trade fair in Helsinki 13.4.2010. The sales configurator speeds up the process of creating offers and orders. Especially companies producing and selling mass customized products or complex products benefit from using a sales configurator. Different user groups have access to the information they need at their work and get real-time reports on things they need to control. Summium 5 can be integrated to other systems at the company. Summium serves at the moment 4000 users around the world. See Summium 5 demo video.

For more information, please contact:

Product manager Sami Kyllönen
+ 358 6 319 4000
firstname.lastname[at]wapice.com
www.summium.com

Visit ICT Expo on April 13-14, 2010

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:30

The largest IT event in Finland is worth visiting, the exhibitors will show:

* Business solutions
* Business intelligence
* Content management
* System integration
* Internet solutions
* IP
* IT security
* Consulting and training
* Network solutions
* Telecom
* Mobile solutions

Come and see Wapice's latest releases:

* Make offers and orders more efficiently: Advanced version of Summium sales configurator is released!
* Remote control and management system WRM allows you to monitor and control all your equipment simultaneously.
* Need a tailored software solution or a Microsoft BizTalk or Sharepoint solution? Meet Wapice's Business Solutions Segment.

Event: ICT Expo. Three IT events at the same conference hall.
Place: Helsingin Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland
Time: April 13-14, 2010
Wapice's Stand: 5d15

Register for free!
More information.

Wapice develops ICT tools for business networks

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 07:13

Together with several European research institutes and technology companies, Wapice participates in the Net-Challenge project aiming at developing visionary business environment for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The project will develop new concepts and tools to support international business networks. Networking helps SMEs better respond to market opportunities, act faster and offer configured products with competitive prices. The EU funded project will develop effective methodologies, processes and ICT decision support tools to support SMEs in building these non-hierarchical collaborative networks. The project focuses in the industry of complex products manufacturing. Wapice’s role is to develop ICT tools for the project together with the other software companies participating in the project.

Further information in the Net-Challenge home page.
or from Anna-Kaisa Saari, Team Manager at Wapice Ltd, +358 6 319 4000, firstname.lastname[at]wapice.com

Sales configurator of the future

Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:15

Wapice has participated in the development of a sales configurator of the future. Together with European and Asian automotive companies and research institutes the research project called the CATER found out how sales configurators can help manufacturing companies and their customers.

Wapice’s sales configurator, Summium, was used in the project. Wapice also developed additional tools for managing the network of factories, warehouses, sales and customers, as well as provided consultation on mass customization.

The following videos illustrate some of the results.

Video 1: Buying a fleet of trucks (business-to-business)
Video 2: Buying a car (consumer business)

For more information, please contact
Sami Kyllönen, Wapice +358 6 319 4000 sami.kyllonen[at]wapice.com

Wapice provided a sales configurator for ABB Oy, Substation Automation Products

Monday, 21 December 2009 11:37

ABB Oy, Substation Automation Products faced an urgent need for a new way of ordering and handling the orders, as a next generation product was introduced in the product family.

The ABB unit chose Summium sales configurator, developed by Wapice, to manage the ordering process better. Summium was customized to meet the specific needs of ABB. Summium has now been succesfully rolled out globally at ABB Substation Automation Products and their customers.

Requirements met by Summium sales configurator

The ABB unit had specific requirements for the sales configurator: it should benefit both the unit and its customers. For the unit, the system had to provide possibilities for maintenance in managing the different product models and adding of selectable options to the MicroSCADA Pro products. Moreover, it had to offer one place for the product prices and easy management of changes and discounts to different customers.

For the customer, there were the many requirements: First, different persons at the customer need to access the same up-to-date information.  Second, there had to be a way to contact sales support for guidance directly from the configurator. Third, customer’s time would be saved if old orders were available and they could be used as a template for the next order. Fourth, upgrades of the product had to be handled easily from the configurator. Fifth, customers should see the status of their orders any time. And finally, the configurator should be available globally for everyone that has an account.

Description of ABB Oy, Substation Automation Products

ABB Oy, Substation Automation Products is within ABB responsible for sales, marketing and development of software products used by electrical utilities and industries for monitoring, controlling and automating the electrical process. The product family is known as MicroSCADA Pro, and it has thousands of users around the world. MicroSCADA Pro is typically installed and used as a communication gateway and control system in electrical substations, but also as the network control system for supervising and controlling large distribution networks. Globally, there are close to 100 projecting units that are engineering and delivering such types of systems based on MicroSCADA Pro. In the recent years major R&D work on MicroSCADA Pro has been done and the volumes delivered have increased rapidly.

More information: www.summium.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:44

Wapice wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Successful Year 2010! We would like to thank our customers and everybody we cooperated with this year. We hope that the cooperation will continue next year and in the future.

This year’s money for Christmas presents was donated to poor children through the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.