Released on: June 3, 2008, 5:00 am

Press Release Author: Eric Pierrel / Itris Automation Square

Industry: Industrial

Press Release Summary: Grenoble, France, June 3rd 2008 - Itris Automation Square, an
independent software vendor offering highly innovative solutions for the development
of PLC programs, announced today that its flagship product for the automatic
translation of PLC programs now supports as translation target the Modicon® M340
Programmable Automation Controller.

Press Release Body: Thanks to this new target, Itris customers will benefit as
quickly as possible from the high performance, flexibility and robustness of the
latest Modicon programmable automation controller. Supporting technological
innovations proposed by PLC vendors, soon after they are made available to the
market, is at the heart of Itris Automation Square value proposition. Indeed, PLC
Converter automatically translates PLC programs and thus saves many hours of manual
rewriting. Thanks to the usage of automatic semantic translation tools, it also
guarantees identical functionalities and a very high level of quality.

"The support of the M340 programmable automation controller is the next step in our
fruitful partnership with Schneider Electric." explains Jean Martos, CTO of Itris
Automation Square. "The collaboration with Schneider Electric allows both companies
to enrich the technological ecosystem around their offerings and thus helps us best
serve the community of automation engineers. Also, adding new targets to PLC
Converter is fully consistent with our mission: accelerating the pace of innovation
in the automation industry by allowing an easy access to the best computer science
techniques."

PLC Converter can translate automatically code from the following PLCs: Schneider
Electric SMC, April, TSX and PL7, Alstom Alspa and Siemens Step 5. The new Modicon
M340 target comes in addition to the already supported targets: Modicon Quantum and
Premium and Siemens S7-300, S7-400 and C7.


About Itris Automation Square
Itris Automation Square offers highly innovative development tools for Programmable
Logic Controllers. Its solutions, based on advanced computer science techniques,
allow the automatic translation of PLC programs as well as the improvement of their
quality and their reverse engineering. Itris Automation Square is a French company
based in Grenoble.
For more information: www.automationsquare.com


Web Site: http://www.automationsquare.com

Contact Details: Eric Pierrel
Itris Automation Square
Phone: +33 681-145-513
Email: eric.pierrel@automationsquare.com