PlasmaTech Inc., a company specializing in wireless technology, has reportedly issued a case study demonstrating the successful deployment of its newly acquired Virtual Communications Port / 232 IP System (VCP).

According to a press release promoting the new case study, the VCP was deployed by a North American sports apparel designer manufacturing in China.

As per the case study, the North American sports apparel manufacturer was looking to having a faster; less cumbersome method for communicating design changes from its Canadian office to its computerized numeric control (CNC) weaving machines in China. Previous operational methods required submitting changes over the Internet to China, then manually transferring the changes onto a disk that was manually installed on each machine. To solve these inefficiencies, and with nearly 375 machines running simultaneously, the PlasmaTech’s VCP technology was adapted which is said to have helped the company to have a better communications design.

Also, by enabling bi-directional wireless communication from design office to the factory floor, PlasmaTech’s newly acquired technology added value to the supply chain, increasing cost-efficiencies and minimizing errors.

“Such benefits can directly add to the bottom-line, enhancing profit potential and increasing production capacity for any number of industries. We look forward to capitalizing on these market opportunities in 2010,” said Marvin Williams, president, PlasmaTech, in the release.

Moreover, by just adding a small OEM Ethernet control device to PlasmaTech’s VCP technology, the requirements for an Ethernet connection to the client’s computerized weaving machines was said to have been met.

The VCP system enabled the client to select one of 375+ IP addresses each linked to a weaving machine and wirelessly access a particular machine via a secure wireless connection. With this, the client was able to not only download a program to the machine; but to also remotely activate the CNC to watch and monitor a prototype weaves in real-time.

Reportedly, the VCP system is now available in various radio frequency formats including, Zigbee, Bluetooth, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHZ and Zigbee/802.15.4 radios. PlasmaTech claims that in addition to CNC machines, the VCP system can offer a secure wireless connection via Ethernet for devices such as ATM machines, data collection devices, telecommunications equipment, data display devices, security alarms and access control devices, and handheld instruments.