Europe enjoys a very successful 2007 and welcomes a new General Manager. Citect is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Hinninger as the General Manager for Europe and the Middle East. The European region has achieved extraordinary success and the appointment of a new GM will add to its overall great year.

Thomas joins Citect from GE Fanuc where he served as the Branch Manager and Regional Manager for Germany/Austria/Switzerland. A native of Germany, Thomas attended Fachhochschule Darmstadt and has a degree in automation control engineering. With many years’ experience in automation, including positions at Siemens, ABB Manheim, Intellution Germany and multiple divisions at GE Fanuc, Thomas is certain to be a welcome addition to the European team.

Citect in the Community

Jeans for Genes
Part of Citect’s driving philosophy is to contribute our communities. This year Citect participated in Jeans for Genes to help children afflicted by a variety of genetic diseases. Jeans for Genes is a major fundraiser of the Children's Medical Research Institute. Money raised from this event goes to fund research to prevent and develop better treatments for leukemia, muscular dystrophy, genetic defects and many other disorders. With one in twenty children born with some form of genetic fault, Jeans for Genes helps millions of children lead happier and healthier lives.

Not only is it a good cause but a comfortable and fun one, too. Jeans for Genes is held the last Friday in August and is a day where everyone can wear jeans and simply make a donation or buy a badge to help today’s scientists research into improving the lives of children.

CitectSCADA V7.0 Challenge

As part of our recent CitectSCADA V7.0 launch we offered visitors of our website the chance to win one of four prizes. Competition entrants were asked to describe how the features of CitectSCADA V7.0 were similar to James Bond. Thanks to everyone for participating! With many entries, our team of judges were tasked with choosing the most creative, interesting and relevant responses.

So now we have four winners....and the winners are...
The major prize, a Sony PlayStation®3 and bonus Casino Royale movie, goes to

Mr Mike Byrn, Australia

The three runner up prizes, a Bond Monster Collection DVD Set each, are going to

Ms Alice Smith
Mr Steven Gooda
Ms Amy Hart

for the following entries:

"I present you the J to D of CitectSCADA V7!
J-et-setting innovation
A-dvances
M-anageability
E-nhancements
S-upport structure

B-enefits
O-perations
N-etworking
D-ependable!"

"Like James Bond, Citect V007 has all the latest gadgets for defeating any problem, is flexible enough to allow plan changes as needed and stable to rescue any situation from melt down. Also licenced to kill (off machine down time)."

"Calm in the face of overwhelming systems CitectSCADA V007 offers more than any SCADA V00 before it, with an ability to cluster networks, rapidly deploy in hostile situations as well as being easy on the eye. CitectSCADA V007 is hardly shaken and never stirred."

Thanks again to all entrants and congratulations to all of our competition winners, from the CitectSCADA team!

Courtesy of  Citect