Sleepy Wombat Posted March 30, 2006 Report Posted March 30, 2006 Citect have been around some time and have established themselves in the SCADA market. Recently - last week in fact, the deal was done whereby now Schneider (Sqr D) have bought Citect. My question is / discussion would be what do we all think of the take over. Questions to ponder would be do you think that this will serverly affect their industry independance ? etc....I suppose that as with all good intentions the line will be that Citect will continue to operate in its own right independant of Schneider blah blah blah, but as time generally tells all of these "good" intentions seem to go by the way side..... Quote
Gerry Posted March 31, 2006 Report Posted March 31, 2006 I would guess that will be the case and Schneider would be silly to chase away existing cutomers that use other brands of PLC. Longer term they will probably try to enhance performance when connected to Modicon vs brand x or make brand x drivers more expensive. Quote
TimWilborne Posted March 31, 2006 Report Posted March 31, 2006 (edited) The one thing to think about is Citect is not a struggling company. I don't know the exact number, but I would say they are fairly profitable. I don't believe Schneider would purchase a profitable company and make any immediate drastic changes. Over time, you may see some overlapping products disappear but I would make sense the more popular of the two would stay. Now if they were loosing money, then I could be a different story. In that case they could be purchased for extra manufacturing capacity of the purchasers product or the company that is being purchased may still have a good name for the purchaser to put on their product but I don't think that is the case here Edited March 31, 2006 by TWControls Quote
Smoke Posted March 31, 2006 Report Posted March 31, 2006 I don't know if you are all into Vision systems but when Cognex bought DVT (which is a excellent vision system) the very next rev was different. Quote
TimWilborne Posted March 31, 2006 Report Posted March 31, 2006 Kind of playing devils advocate here but something to think about Was the next rev bad? Is it possible DVT was already working on it when they were purchased? Quote
Sleepy Wombat Posted April 2, 2006 Author Report Posted April 2, 2006 As with most things time will tell. Quote
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