FOXBOROUGH, MA — April 13, 2008 — ICONICS released Productivity Analytics, which complements the existing BizViz products including ReportWorX, BridgeWorX, PortalWorX, MobileHMI and Alarm Analytics products. Productivity Analytics empowers decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with real-time and accurate information to help drive global efficiency and strengthen competitive market advantage. Users are able to gain insight into operations through real-time data aggregation and connectivity to multiple data sources, presented in an intuitive and intelligent manner.
Features include thin client Web-based configuration, configurable KPIs, automated, on-demand reporting, intuitive Web-based user interface, real-time alert notification, alarm performance benchmarking, OEE delivered to wireless devices, role-based, secure dashboards, and flexible shift scheduling. BizViz Alarm Analytics provides rapid analysis, visualization, reporting and management of alarms, resulting in improved plant reliability, faster response times and deeper process understanding. Users are able to improve efficiency by uncovering alarm patterns, events and response times via an OSHA-/EEMUA-compliant solution.
BizViz suite of Manufacturing Intelligence/Business Visualization and Analytics solutions visualizes and integrates the plant floor to the top floor, taking maximum advantage of Microsoft.NET technology. BizViz connects the factory floor to the enterprise using .NET, Web services, ASP.NET, SNMP, OPC-UA and other Web-enabling technologies.
“ICONICS has added a Productivity Analytics solution to its BizViz suite of Manufacturing Intelligence products,” said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. “With this powerful suite of applications, customers can take maximum advantage of the time-saving, reporting, bridging, Web portal, mobility, alarm analysis and productivity analysis features to capitalize on data between manufacturing and corporate business systems.” “The introduction of Productivity Analytics combines with the existing Alarm Analytics solution,” said Melissa Topp, Product Marketing Manager at ICONICS, “to provide an advanced ‘BizViz Analytics’ manufacturing intelligence platform that emphasizes lean concepts and methodologies to help drive improvements directly to your bottom line.”
ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software marketplace. Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS’ GENESIS64, GENESIS32 and BizViz products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging information from “the shop floor to the top floor.” ICONICS has provided industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 21 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000 solutions worldwide.
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. GENESIS64 takes advantage of 64-bit processors running 64-bit optimized Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. 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 225,000 product installations worldwide.
