Manro

MANRO was founded in 1988 with the development of a Windows-based Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) CASE tool. The platform at that time was MS Windows 2.03 and the development tools were Microsoft C and Microsoft SDK for Windows 2.03. In 1990 the first version of CREON® was released - a SCADA CASE tool for applications in the chemic... al and pharmaceutical industries. The product was successfully applied in several Rusell-Uclaf factories in France. In the beginning of 1992, a special version of CREON® was released for the needs of the biochemical plant in Pestera, Bulgaria. The customer needs forced an upgrade of the system so that it could handle the control of simultaneously running industrial processes. The task was very challenging, concerning the cooperative multitasking architecture of Windows 3.x. In addition, the nature of the biochemical processes triggered the implementation of a special control module based on fuzzy logic. All the applications of that SCADA software are still in use. In 1992 the team participated in the first European presentation of Microsoft Windows NT operating system in Brussels, Belgium. Since then, most of the software applications the team created were based on Windows NT and Win32 API. In 1994 MANRO started a co-op with the American company Genmark Automation, Inc. - a leader in wafer-handling robot manufacturing for the semiconductor industry. MANRO was involved in upgrading and supporting robot systems' firmware. Simultaneously, MANRO managed to develop and apply a Manufacturing Information System (MIS) in the Genmark Automation facility. The system was based on the Microsoft Access. In 1995 MANRO worked over a project named SERECA - including integrated environment for development, testing and running of SCADA systems, graphical description of the system configuration, algorithms and UI, and document generation. The product targeted Windows NT operating system and used its features as preemptive multitasking, thread synchronization, security, data logging, ...Read More