![]() Morin left the company towards the end of 1995. They soon became the industry leader in a market they largely created, leaving much bigger rivals behind. Their print ads featured lingerie, they rented out cruise ships and hired bands such as the Dixie Chicks and speakers like astronaut Alan Shepard to appear at company events. Wonderware employed an outrageous marketing blitz in the conservative industry for factory operations. Huber was a Penn State graduate who once worked at the legendary Bell labs before coming to California. He told his idea to a young technology wizard, Phil Huber, who was still employed by Triconex. He drove a Taxi in Boston before coming to California, hitching a ride with some friends in the 1970s. Up until then, the college dropout had either been fired or never been promoted from every job he managed to find. In one of the great rags-to-riches entrepreneurial stories of the 1980s, Morin was 40 years old when he left Triconex. He was terminated from Triconex in February, 1986. His idea was that operators monitoring factory operations would be more productive if they used a machine that was fun and easy to use. Morin's founding vision was a Windows-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) that was inspired by an early 1980s video game that allowed players to digitally construct a pinball game. Both were former employees of another local startup located in Irvine, California. ![]() ![]() Wonderware was co-founded by Dennis Morin and Phil Huber.
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