System Integrators and IPm^™

SIXNET has created an easy way for system integrators to leverage their know-how into multiple sales at higher profits. How many times have you thought about turning your great project successes into products that you can sell many times? Products are easier to sell then custom projects because your clients would much rather buy proven, mature solutions. When you bring a good product to market, each success will bring you more success!

Your revenues will go up and your costs will come WAY down. This is because products do not have to be designed over and over again but the value of the solution you provide has not diminished – in fact, over time, the value added of your products will continue to increase!

SIXNET’s IPm is designed from the ground up to be an OEM industrial product platform. SIXNET has packed our 25 years of product know how into a truly open Linux environment, complete with free applications development tools. We encourage OEMs to build upon our mature and abundant firmware platform with specialized applications of your own. Imagine a control product that you can “get under the hood” and customize it to your exact requirements. That’s the magic of IPm.

IPm is a modular product platform that adapts itself easily to your needs. Both the IPm hardware and software are modular and scalable. Use the parts you need. You are also free to add other elements (third party or your own) to complete your product package.

SIXNET provides private labeling, and customized services for OEMs. IPm was designed from the ground up to be an OEM “product platform”. See for yourself at www.Linux4oems.com.

SIXNET will show you how to make sure that your customers come back to you time and again to purchase your IPm-based products. We will gladly share our experience in balancing the benefits of open systems (more sales and easier integration) with proprietary advantages that will differentiate your products in the market. The IPm itself is just such a blend of proprietary advantages integrated into a truly open platform.

SIXNET will show you how to successfully mix GPL (public license) and proprietary software to your best advantage. Protect the special (proprietary) parts of your product by compiling them. You can even add protection keys to your products so that revenue can be created through valuable software features and upgrades. (You can’t do that with the user accessible ladder logic in a PLC!) With an IPm product platform you can mix ISaGRAF programming with proprietary compiled applications to give you the best of both worlds (Take a Quick Tour!).

SIXNET will help you create open solutions that will give you a strong
competitive advantage and a repeating revenue stream!

SIXNET has created documentation and suggestions for creating product software that is well integrated into the IPm platform and the I/O Tool Kit Configuration Tools. Take a quick tour and see for yourself. Furthermore, technical details are explained in a set of IPm technical notes.