TAC Announces First Integrated Environmental and Security 21 CFR Part 11 Solution for the Regulated Industries

Andover, Mass. — TAC Corporation announces the release of their CFR Compliance Pack. This new software feature set addresses the need for accountability and traceability of both security and environmental conditions in the plant manufacturing process, facilitating compliance with the Food and Drug Administration’s 21 CFR Part 11 regulations. This document was developed by the FDA to promote and regulate the use of electronic signature, record keeping, and reporting practices for all business disciplines under its control.

TAC has taken a leadership role in an effort to help FDA-regulated businesses comply with this code. Through the use of detailed audit trails and enforced operator responses, TAC’s CFR Compliance Pack ensures that not only are process-related environmental conditions monitored on the manufacturing floor, but also that all card access events and security alarms are recorded within a common 21 CFR Part 11 architecture.

“We are seeing a marked increase in awareness of not only the obligation to comply but also the real, tangible business benefits of compliance,” says Clive Smith, Industry Marketing Manager, TAC. “TAC is the first in the industry to offer a common 21 CFR Part 11 compliance-ready platform able to fulfill both security management and environmental control requirements. This approach increases customer efficiency through improved user familiarity and the development of consistent Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), design methodologies, and operator training programs.”

The CFR Compliance Pack is an enhancement to TAC's existing Continuum® Security Management System, which provides access control, security alarm monitoring, badging, video surveillance, and environmental control to facilities world-wide.

TAC designs, manufactures, and installs “smart building” systems that ensure the security, comfort, and efficiency of buildings. Founded in 1975, the company has over 40,000 systems installed in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

TAC XPress Integrated Wins New Product Showcase Award At ISC East Expo

Andover, Mass.— TAC Corporation, a leading high-tech manufacturer of integrated building management systems, is proud to announce that its new product offering, XPress Integrated was named the "Best Integrated System" in the Security Industry Association's (SIA) New Product Showcase Competition. The competition took place at the ISC Expo East in New York City on August 28th, 2001.

XPress Integrated offers digital video recording, access control, and alarm monitoring in a single box, providing a complete security management solution for today's facilities.

Perfect for smaller security installations, but expandable to enterprise-level applications, XPress Integrated provides access control for 28 doors and up to 78,000 cardholders, digital video recording for up to 32 cameras, a badging system, and a host of security management and monitoring utilities.

XPress Integrated is pre-configured and ready to go right out of the box. Connect your cameras directly to a XPress unit and begin recording high-quality digital video immediately. No software drivers needed! You can be up and running — retrieving video files, managing personal data, viewing history reports, and responding to alarms — in no time!

XPress Integrated lets you retrieve and view recorded video simultaneously and search for events by time, date, location, camera, and more. View pre- and post-alarm recordings, and quickly assess an entire alarm event via a pop-up video window.

TAC's award-winning product will be exhibited at:  
ASIS International 47th Annual Seminar & Exhibit 
October 1-4 in San Antonio, Texas 
Booth #1227.

TAC Introduces Time Tracker

Andover, Mass.— TAC Corporation, of North Andover, Massachusetts, a leading high-tech manufacturer of the security management systems, introduces Time Tracker. Time Tracker is an easy-to-use software reporting tool to track employee labor hours, using card access event data from TAC' Continuum® Security Management System.

Using Time Tracker, the time-consuming job of verifying contractors' billings is especially simplified. With Time Tracker, TAC's Continuum® system does all the work — automatically tracking hours for each cardholder based on their card swipes in and out of the building or designated area.

In addition, Time Tracker features a full suite of pre-configured reports for managers that provide a precise historical view of employee and contractor attendance. These reports can be automatically printed out on a daily, weekly, and monthly time basis.

TAC Names Robert M. Simmons Director of Workstation Software

Simmons is a 1977 magna cum laude graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, with a B.S. in Computer Science, and a 1982 graduate of M.I.T., with a M.S. in Computer Science. He has more than 23 years of high-tech industry experience in business and project management, software engineering, database design, and software training at the professional and university level. Simmons recently worked at myteam.com in Woburn, Massachusetts as Director of Client Applications.

TAC Forms Alliance with Veeder-Root

Andover, Mass. — TAC announces an alliance with Veeder-Root, the world's leading supplier of automatic tank gauging and fuel management systems. Headquartered in  Simsbury, Connecticut, Veeder-Root presently has tank monitoring systems in more than 500,000 underground storage tanks around the globe.

TAC will be offering its customers Veeder-Root's full range of TLS-300 Automatic Tank Gauge systems (ATGs), sensors, and probes. Veeder-Root's products have been certified by an independent third-party testing organization to exceed federal standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Used in conjunction with TAC's Continuum® facilities monitoring and control systems, end-users can integrate their EPA-regulated tank monitoring requirements directly into their TAC systems, receiving critical leak detection alarms and fuel inventory data via the TAC front-end workstation.

"The alliance of TAC and Veeder-Root," says Robert Klein, TAC’s VP of Sales, "aligns two suppliers of critical applications for telecommunications sites and other industry segments to form a powerful and flexible, integrated solution to meet our customer base requirements for now and the future."

"TAC customers will now get the best of both worlds," says Kurt Witzgall, Veeder-Root's Market Development Manager. " — a comprehensive, integrated TAC system featuring a proven leak detection and fuel management solution — from the recognized industry leader, Veeder-Root."

TAC Announces XPress Integrated

Perfect for smaller security management installations, but expandable to enterprise-level applications, XPress Integrated provides access control for 28 doors and up to 78,000 cardholders, digital video recording for up to 32 cameras, a badging system, and a host of security management and monitoring utilities.

XPress Integrated is pre-configured and ready to go right out of the box. Connect your cameras directly to a unit and begin recording high-quality digital video immediately. No software drivers needed! You can be up and running — retrieving video files, managing personal data, viewing history reports, and responding to alarms — in no time!

XPress Integrated lets you retrieve and view recorded video simultaneously and search for events by time, date, location, camera, and more. View pre- and post-alarm recordings, and quickly assess an entire alarm event via a pop-up video window.

For installations where video recording is not needed, TAC provides XPress only. This is the same easy-to-use, feature-rich package as XPress Integrated, but without the video surveillance/ recording capabilities.