August 21, 2008 — ICONICS announced the addition of new sales channel partner, CB Automation, Inc., a Canadian automation and instrumentation products and service provider to the industrial marketplace. CB Automation will serve as a master distributor with focus on specification, training and support in conjunction with existing ICONICS distributors in the eastern Canada provinces. Since the company’s inception in 1985, CB Automation’s employees have committed themselves to setting consistently high standards for instrumentation, automation and control solutions. The company’s represented manufacturers rank among the foremost developers of new technology in the world.
Originally known as CB Engineering (Eastern) Ltd., the company was initially incorporated to serve the Ontario market. The ‘solutions’ approach to instrumentation and automation sales fueled rapid growth and, by the year 2000, the company’s automation business had expanded to all regions of Eastern Canada. “CB Automation has wide experience and expansive reach into the SCADA and manufacturing intelligence markets in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes,” said Mark Hepburn, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at ICONICS.
“We are confident that CB Automation will help automation solution providers and specifying engineers to quickly adopt ICONICS’ revolutionary next-generation automation software products.” “Our company’s focus is on providing high quality technical sales, service and support to an ever expanding list of industrial automation customers,” said Chris Dunn, President of CB Automation. “We also strive to successfully represent and partner with premium vendors within the industry, such as ICONICS, in order to further our reputation for excellence. We look forward to the opportunities that becoming an ICONICS sales channel partner will undoubtedly provide.”
A recent addition to CB Automation, SCADA Products Manager Scott Mooney has worked very closely with ICONICS since the company was founded in 1986 and believes there has never been a better time to be working with the company. “GENESIS64 and this ‘New Generation’ of ICONICS products are very complimentary to the skill set at CB Automation,” Mooney said. “What a great match of talent and technology.” “ICONICS devotes a large part of its resources to the support of its sales channel,” said Tim Donaldson, Director of Marketing at ICONICS. “This includes numerous marketing efforts including live events, literature, product demonstrations and more.
I look forward to expanding the relationship with CB Automation as they further ICONICS’ reputation throughout Eastern Canada.” 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 award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 22 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. 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.