AUDRE Announces Pact on Marketing

AUDRE Inc. announced it has signed a three-year agreement worth more than $5 million giving McDonnell Douglas Corp. the exclusive rights to market AUDRE’s complete line of automated digitizing and recognition systems to North American telecommunications companies.

AUDRE’s systems uses artificial intelligence to “read” telephone companies’ maps and charts for conversion into into a digitized format. The system enables telephone companies to better manage assets such as telephone lines, transformers and plants, AUDRE President Thomas Casey said.

The AUDRE systems will be marketed by McDonnell Douglas Communications Industry Systems Co., Casey said.