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ICONICS Announces Wireless Pocket PC-Based Industrial Automation Software

Houston, TX, ISA ‘04 – October 5, 2004 — ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, today announced Pocket GENESIS™ V8. Pocket GENESIS, based on the award-winning GENESIS32™, provides object-oriented, scalable HMI applications for Windows CE and Pocket PC. Pocket GENESIS, designed for the Pocket PC, is a suite of smart applications providing maximum reliability and performance for visualization, alarming and trending of any manufacturing application. Powerful "store-and-forward" technology allows for operation when no network is present. Once the operator moves into an area where a network is detected, Pocket GENESIS provides automatic synchronization.

Pocket GENESIS V8 includes several applications for the Pocket PC and mobile worker:
 Pocket GraphWorX™ V8 – Provides advanced HMI displays.
 Pocket AlarmWorX™ V8 – For acknowledging OPC alarms and events.
 Pocket TrendWorX™ V8 – Plotting real-time and historical data in a number of trend chart display formats, including stackable plots.
 Pocket DataSpy V8™ – Testing and monitoring of OPC data, alarms, and data quality.
 New Pocket VCRWorX™ V8 – For historical replay of HMI displays in the palm of your hand.

"Pocket GENESIS V8, Pocket PCs and wireless communications make a great team. Together they address a fast-growing and critical market niche in factories and plants worldwide, providing instant access to real-time and historical manufacturing data at anytime and from anywhere," states Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "Empowering workers with wireless devices allows them to save time while performing their tasks, resulting in an increase in productivity."

Pocket GENESIS V8 is ideal in many situations, ranging from small machine control to mobilizing a workforce in very large, networked distributed applications. Pocket GENESIS is the only suite of applications ready to Plug and Play with your Pocket PC.

Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group, comments, "There is fast growth in the deployment of wireless HMI devices that are monitoring a multitude of events and equipment on the plant floor as manufacturers are mobilizing their work force with PDAs, wireless note pads, multi-functional wireless phones, etc. Maintenance and repair activities, field service and other support functions are all benefiting from wireless devices embedded with HMI Software such as Pocket GENESIS V8."

ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 18 years, and has successfully deployed more than 125,000 solutions worldwide. For more information, please contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600 or info@iconics, or visit the ICONICS Web site at www.iconics.com.

About ICONICS
Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32™ Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, 95, 98, Millennium, and 2000, and Windows NT®. Pocket GENESIS™ for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core™ framework. BizViz™ is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint™, and runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX® Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server®–based data logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 50 countries, and has more than 125,000 product installations worldwide. For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com.

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