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ICONICS News
| ICONICS Introduces New Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions for Regulated Industries |
INTERPHEX, New York City, NY April 26, 2005 ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, today announced its new Manufacturing Intelligence Software Suite for Regulated Industries. BizViz, ICONICS' real-time manufacturing intelligence solution, enables pharmaceutical and other regulated industries to overcome todays business challenges regarding collection, management, analysis, and sharing of real-time information. ICONICS enables manufacturers to overcome business challenges with the BizViz real-time manufacturing intelligence solution. BizViz empowers users at all levels of the organization with accurate, up-to-the-second, real-time information. Robust security management and a single-sign-on service provide efficient access to all enterprise information. Personalized role-based dashboards deliver relevant content from various systems in an intuitive framework to authorized personnel. Configurable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enable real-time performance tracking against set targets. BizViz supports Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Demand Pull process-improvement initiatives with many KPIs used in the pharmaceutical industry, such as OEE, Cycle Time, and Productivity. BizViz embraces the framework of Collaborative Manufacturing, and extends it via a reliable and OPC-based interoperable platform that can be easily customized to meet ones specific needs. Automated and on-demand reporting capabilities with advanced analytic functions help decision makers visualize trends, perform root-cause analyses, and identify opportunities for performance improvement. Tracking multiple real-time KPIs helps pharmaceutical customers to dramatically decrease the cost of compliance, increase manufacturing efficiency, and deliver new products to market faster, states Jindrich Liska, Vice President of Business Development for ICONICS. BizViz is a suite of products that incorporates revolutionary Data-Mining and Integration technology and allows the data bridging, viewing and reporting of any real-time or enterprise data source. BizViz fast deployment and scalability deliver high return-on-investment to FDA-regulated industries. Production line supervisors, plant managers, global supply chain managers, division leaders and CEOs can have accurate, real-time information from all enterprise systems resulting in streamlined business efficiency and an increase in profitability. Manufacturing efficiency and responsiveness will play a critical role in the future success of every pharmaceutical company, states John Blanchard, Principal Pharmaceutical Industry Analyst with ARC Advisory Group. Manufacturing Intelligence systems must have more and more powerful analytics and will need to be more flexible, secure, interoperable and robust. The ICONICS BizViz is a solution that can help address this need. 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 150,000 product installations worldwide. For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com. |