BTS HISTORY & DNC PRODUCT TIMELINE
The DNC industry took off during the late 1980s in the United States. At that time, John Richardson founded JNL Industries. In the early 1990s JNL focused on reselling CAM solutions and developing a cutting edge DNC Product line. The JNL DNC product was called CIMNET. JNL eventually changed the company name to CIMNET, Inc. based on the market recognition of that brand/DNC Product name.
During the 1990s and first part of the 2000s CIMNET developed many well known DNC solutions. CIMNET DNC evolved from the product names and technologies of DNC Jr, Multicom, DNC1, DNC Plus and the current offering DNC Professional™. CIMNET grew into the industry leader in DNC communications and supported a customer base of over 2,000 manufacturing facilities with over 15,000 DNC licenses sold worldwide.
After Y2K CIMNET continued to focus on DNC technology and also developed many MES modules for different types of manufacturing data collection and reporting. In July of 2007 Wonderware and its parent company Invensys acquired CIMNET and all of the CIMNET products. For the past three years Wonderware Invensys sold and supported the CIMNET DNC technology and customers.
Tom Byrne was responsible for leading the DNC Business at both CIMNET and Wonderware for the last twelve years. Tom managed the DNC reseller network and most DNC related issues.
On July 30th, 2010 Berkshire Technology Solutions (BTS) entered into a definitive agreement to certain assets and exclusive rights to all of Wonderware / CIMNET's DNC software, hardware, and service maintenance agreements.
Tom Byrne (the former CIMNET and Wonderware DNC lead) founded BTS to return a high level of focus to the DNC product line and customer base. Tom and the staff of BTS are dedicating immediate resources to developing and supporting DNC Professional.
BTS will be based in the Reading, PA region. Satellite offices will be established in Dallas, Knoxville, and Chicago. A series of over 25 distribution offices will operate to sell and support DNC Professional in the USA and some international locations. Many of these offices have focused on this product line for over fifteen years.
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