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With this acquisition, Schneider Electric will get significant access to low voltage installation and control systems market in Germany, which is the largest in Europe. Merten products will enable Schneider Electric to complete its ultra terminal offer with a comprehensive and complementary range of wiring devices and home control solutions. In 2005, Schneider Electric generated revenue of €1,2 billion in Ultra Terminal.

Electronics Workbench Corporation announced that DesignSuite 9 is one of the top three products of 2005, according to readers of Elektronik magazine, one of Germany’s premier electronics publications. The circuit design software suite, which was competing against 10 other products, received second place in the 2005 Product of the Year CAD/CAE category. DesignSuite 9 is a collection of four Electronics Workbench products – Multicap 9, Multisim 9, Ultiboard 9 and Ultiroute 9 – that, together, create a tightly integrated, end-to-end solution engineers can use to efficiently take electronics projects from initial concept through capture and simulation to final layout and production.

The NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module was named a co-winner in the Digital Control/Embedded Computing category. NI SignalExpress 1.1 interactive measurement software and an NI CompactRIO dynamic signal analyzer (DSA), cRIO-4408, were named runners-up in the Analog Control and Digital Rapid Prototyping Tools categories, respectively.

DeltaV OTS is a complete simulator-based learning environment designed to prevent operator error which can result in accidents, product loss, or costly plant shutdowns. The need to prevent operator error was recently confirmed by a study of chemical manufacturers which indicated that 37% of plant incidents could be categorized by incorrect operator actions.