MYNAH - Small Vendor Playing Big

In Dan Herbert's ControlDesign.com article, "Can Small Vendors Play Big?", the answer is a resounding "yes."

MYNAH, a relatively small development company in the process automation business, partners with Emerson Process Management and Schneider Automation, so we can focus on development and solutions and be specialists at what we do, without the high cost of upper management and bureaucracy.

Herbert's article quotes users who see the value of choosing a small, more customer-focused team: "Most of our performance requirements are best met by smaller vendors that target our industry," says Brad Froemke. (Herbert 2008). MYNAH targets development, support, and custom Industrial Ethernet integration. With its flagship product, MiMiC v3, the first 3rd-generation simulation, MYNAH has dedicated thousands of hours of development time to producing the best out-of-the-box process simulation software that can be used in any process plant, large or small, with ease of use and high fidelity and performance.

MYNAH's Director of Business Development, Martin Berutti, has noted the strategic direction of MYNAH in developing more complex models, libraries, and advanced simulations, so that integrators and plant end users don't have to. He says, "MYNAH's informal corporate environment, focus on customer support, and drive for technology leadership allow us to address specific needs of the market that larger organizations have to pass over."

Regarding MYNAH's size and ability to offer more competitive pricing, Berutti notes, "We can move quickly, offer more custromized solutions, reduce cost and time of development, and reduce our user's risk."

At MYNAH we achieve this without compromising on the key requirements of world-class technology providers, use of industry-leading development tools, best methods, as well as fully-documented quality systems. Berutti notes that the secret is hiring and keeping the best people. At MYNAH, this includes some of the leading advanced control simulation consultants and data communication experts in the world. See part of the MYNAH line up.

MYNAH uses a MiMiC Simulation Advisory Board, which is comprised of the leading, practicing  experts in the industry, who beta test and make recommendations for product releases, based on customer needs and industry trends. The MYNAH development team is lean enough that they can respond and make the development changes and implementation quickly with each point release.

MYNAH also has the benefit of being an industry insider, and with the collaboration and input from the Emerson Engineering centers worldwide, we are able to make adjustments and integrate feedback from engineers and users from around the world. As the Schneider Alliance Collaborative Automation Partner for simulation, MYNAH relies on the wider channel of integrators, sales people, engineers, and automation specialists worldwide, who have contributed to making MiMiC Simulation adaptable and easy to use. Once considered only medium-fidelity, MiMiC v3 is now available in high-fidelity packages, for boilers to distillation columns to floating production storage offloading. Each week, MYNAH advanced simualtion consultants are adding more library models. See the MiMiC v3 Forum.

The upcoming MiMiC v3.1 release will offer many new features, functionality, and additional industrial protocols. Currently, MiMiC supports these automation platforms:

MiMiC Supported Automation Platforms

Emerson Process Management Presentation

DeltaV Controller IO Bus

DeltaV Simulate

DeltaV Simulate SIS

PROVOX and DeltaV Controller for PROVOX IO

RS3 and DeltaV Controller for RS3 IO

Schneider Automation Presentation

Unity Quantum and SoftPLC (OFS v3.2 or higher)

Pre-Unity Quantum

Modicon 984

Citect SCADA

Rockwell Automation

ControlLogix, SoftLogix

PLC5

SLC5

HIMA

HIMA Soft PLC Visualization Gateway

Open Automation Platform

OPC DA v2 Server

Open Modbus TCP/IP

MiMiC v3 Simulation Drivers Architecture Drawings

MiMiC v3 Delta V Simulate MM3-2102

MiMiC v3 DeltaV Railbus MM3-2101

MiMiC v3 Modbus MM3-2103

MiMiC v3 Open OPC MM3-2108

MiMiC v3 Previse Bailey CIU MM3-2109

MiMiC v3 Schneider Unity MM3-2104

Read more on the MiMiC Operator Training Manager

I like Herbert's break-out box at the end of his article, citing the good reasons to buy from small suppliers. Reasons include:

Good Reasons to Buy from Small Suppliers

1. Usually Offer Lower Price and/or Better Performance
2. More Willing to Customize
3. Often Better at Addressing Niche Applications
4. More Personalized Service
5. More Supportive of Open Systems

The unique aspect of MYNAH is that we also fulfill Herbert's list of reasons on why to buy from a bigger supplier. Given our collaborative partnerships with Emerson and Schneider, we are able to provide these benefits as well:

1. Worldwide Support
2. Long-Term Stability
3. Satisfy Customer Preference
4. Wide Range of Products
5. Tighter Integration

References

Retrieved from: Herbert, Dan. "Can Small Vendors Play Big." from http://www.controldesign.com/articles/2008/CanSmallVendorsPlayBig0811.html?page=1 on November 12, 2008.