What Happened?
Burlington, ON-based Memex Automation has Appointed Dave Edstrom as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Memex Inc., the developer of MERLIN, an award winning IIoT technology platform that delivers tangible increases in manufacturing productivity in Real-Time, is the global leader in machine to machine connectivity solutions. Committed to its mission of "Successfully transforming factories of today into factories of the future" and encouraged by the accelerating adoption and success of MERLIN, Memex is relentlessly pursuing the development of increasingly innovative solutions suitable in the IIoT era. Memex envisions converting every machine into a node on the corporate network, thereby, creating visibility from shop-floor-to-top-floor. Memex, with its deep commitment towards machine connectivity, offers solutions that are focused on finding hidden capacity by measuring and managing Real-Time data. This empowers Memex`s customers to effectively quantify and manage OEE, reduce costs and incorporate strategies for continuous lean improvement.
About the Person
Dave Edstrom is the CEO and CTO for Virtual Photons Electrons and has been in the computer industry for 33+ years. Currently, Dave is working as a full time consultant forAMT - The Association of Manufacturing Technology as the Director for The Office of Strategic Innovation. Dave was named President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute in May of 2010 and has been working with the and has been a key contributor to the MTConnect standard. Dave worked for Sun Microsystems for almost 23 years (1987-2010) in a variety of leadership positions. Dave's last position with Sun, from 2004 to 2010, was Chief Technologist for Global Software. Dave has held a variety of positions ranging from an Assembler Programmer, Technical Management, System Engineer, Chief Technologist, Technical Director and Principal Engineer positions for a variety of companies. Dave has been working with Unix since 1981 and had concentrated on Sun's future hardware and software directions since 1988.
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