Alarm Management, Reporting and Analysis Software HOUSTON, TX / ISA ‘06 – October 19, 2006 – ICONICS announces the availability of its Alarm Analytics solution. Alarm Analytics helps customers utilize industry standards-based alarm management, reporting and analysis within a familiar Microsoft Excel environment. The solution comes complete with ICONICS ReportWorX and AlarmWorX Logger software for greater functionality, adding to a growing array of products that help turn data into a competitive advantage. Alarm Analytics provides users with 15 industry standard reports for quick presentation of KPIs such as alarm distribution, tag frequency/chattering, cross-correlations, operator response time and operator changes by interval.
An integral component to ICONICS’ BizViz Manufacturing Intelligence suite, the software meets both Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Engineering Equipment & Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA) specifications. ICONICS BizViz, completely written from the ground up on Microsoft .NET and SharePoint technology bridges the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. Users are able to integrate data from various sources including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP and more. “Manufacturing intelligence is evolving," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS.
"We continue to add more analysis tools, such as Alarm Analytics, to help customers recognize patterns and prevent future problems.”
Alarm Analytics benefits include:
- Wide compatibility and acceptance due to conformity to industry standards.
- Ease of use due to seamless integration with ICONICS ReportWorX and AlarmWorX32 components.
- Intuitive presentation of recorded alarm-related data via a Web-based tool.
- Convenient results storage with AlarmWorX32 integration with standard open databases such as Access, Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MSDE.
- Quick report output from the ReportWorX Template Designer to the Web, PDF, e-mail, printers or fax.
“The recent integration of an alarm analytics tool into the ICONICS BizViz suite of manufacturing intelligence solutions was driven by the desire of manufacturers to bridge information between the plant floor and the enterprise, which should result in increasing their organizations’ productivity,” said Craig Resnick, research director at ARC Advisory Group.
ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 20 years and has successfully deployed more than 200,000 solutions worldwide.
ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Partner, was recently awarded as a Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist in the ISV/Software Solutions category.
ICONICS Background Information
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, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64.
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 Services.
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 60 countries, and has more than 200,000 product installations worldwide.
