Sequencia sells automation business to Rockwell
27 Oct 2000
Sequencia Corporation, a supplier of virtual manufacturing and product collaboration solutions for the process industries, 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 rpmSeries products and supporting engineering services group increases the breadth of Rockwell's process automation business. Sequencia will continue operations in the US and Europe with major offices in Phoenix, Chicago, Philadelphia, the United Kingdom and Germany.
This transaction adds Sequencia's Responsive Process Manufacturing Series (rpmSeries), a 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.
