Azure has unparalleled experience in providing wireless networks that provide mobility and agility for a wide variety of manufacturing engineering systems.

As Ethernet is increasingly adopted on the factory floor and wireless network technologies have standardized, matured and stabilized, manufacturing is increasingly adopting wireless as the connectivity media of choice in increasing access to and visibility to plant floor information.

Control systems, manufacturing execution systems, ERP systems and vision systems are among the various systems whose wireless enablement can benefit discreet and process manufacturing enterprises.

Azure's expertise in providing wireless to the manufacturing market is evidenced by this partial listing of the clients who have relied on Azure's expertise:

• General Motors
• RJ Reynolds
• US Treasury
• US Department of Energy
• SC Johnson
• Toyota
• Ford Motor Company
• US Steel
• Glad Manufacturing
• Toronto Star
• Daimler Chrysler
• Kellogg's

Many of Azure's manufacturing clients also incorporate Azure's Universal Wi-Fi Gateway into their wireless networking initiatives.  As the only dual mode, 802.11a/b/g device with Ethernet and serial interfaces, fast-roaming capabilities, diversity antenna systems and robust security, they have found the Gateway to be the perfect wireless client device for connecting to the wide variety of devices on the plant floor and a reference architecture that ensures compatibility across a wide variety of wireless networks.

Azure offers a broad range of services to fulfill manufacturing engineering systems requirements for wireless solutions:

• Consulting services
• Design engineering services
• Legacy wireless network evaluation
• Prototype development and evaluation
• Turnkey design & implementation services
• Testing & Debug