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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Foxboro selects ITAC Systems as trackball supplier
February 18, 1999 -- ITAC Systems, Inc. (Garland, TX) and The Foxboro Company (Foxboro, MA) have announced a relationship that will enable Foxboro to utilize ITAC's precision-oriented trackball mice, MOUSE-TRAK, within Foxboro’s I/A Series industrial automation systems I/A Series systems are widely used to manage, control, and improve the performance of industrial processes in a variety of different customer plants. These include refineries, chemical plants, food plants, pulp and paper mills, mineral processing plants, power stations, and municipal treatment plants. MOUSE-TRAKs are ergonomically designed input devices manufactured by ITAC that combines the ease-of-use of a mouse with the precision and productivity of a trackball.
"Foxboro has offered a trackball option with our I/A Series system since we introduced the system back in 1987," said Elizabeth Naylor, Foxboro’s director of product marketing. "We’ve found that the MOUSE-TRAK delivers superior reliability and ease-of-use to further enhance the intuitiveness of our operator interface."
"Foxboro’s decision to offer MOUSE-TRAK, provides users significant productivity and reliability benefits that are not available with the free mouse that comes with every computer today, or from other less durable trackball products" said ITAC President Don Bynum. "Combining the superior capability of Foxboro control systems with the reliability of our MOUSE-TRAK, provides Foxboro customers an exceptional value."
MOUSE-TRAK trackballs are widely used in manufacturing, process control, computer aided design, medical electronics, and financial transaction processing applications where extreme reliability and good ergonomics are critical. ITAC’s long history in these mission critical applications gives Foxboro good confidence in the future reliability of MOUSE-TRAK products used to operate Intelligent Automation systems.
The Foxboro Company is a leading worldwide supplier of instruments, systems, and services for industrial process automation. Foxboro is part of the Massachusetts-based Siebe Intelligent Automation division of Siebe plc of Windsor, UK.
ITAC Systems, Inc., with headquarters in Garland, TX, designs, manufactures and markets MOUSE-TRAK computer input devices. Marketed primarily to professional users in the high-performance transaction processing, computer graphics, design, engineering, imaging, medical, publishing and government markets, MOUSE-TRAK is available through worldwide distribution channels.