Will Distribute ICONICS Visual Intelligence Industrial Automation Software Solutions FOXBOROUGH, MA – February 13, 2007 – Gibson Engineering Company recently became the new ICONICS distributor for all six New England states selling all ICONICS industrial automation software solutions. Gibson Engineering Company, Incorporated, of Norwood, MA, is the largest Machine Vision reseller in New England. Established in 1945, Gibson Engineering is an Automation Solution Provider serving the six New England states with regionally located sales engineers and technical support team. The company, presently serving over 2,000 customers, represents a small group of world-class manufacturers of industrial automation products.
Its mission is to apply technologies to provide customers with a level of integration for unsurpassed efficiency and productivity. These technologies are applied to answer clients’ critical core values, which are to: reduce risk, make life easier, increase profitability and increase competitive advantage. “ICONICS is extremely happy to have Gibson Engineering market the ICONICS software solutions in New England,” said Mark Hepburn, ICONICS Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “Gibson Engineering is highly dedicated to providing technical solutions and has a team of qualified sales engineers that delivers value to the industrial automation industry.
Through this premier distributorship, ICONICS anticipates meeting the needs of many satisfied customers.” “Gibson Engineering realized the need for ICONICS’ widely recognized HMI/SCADA and business visualization software to fit into our solution mix for our many customers across New England,” said Gibson Engineering President Dan O’Brien. “We look forward to uncovering opportunity for both companies in the years ahead.” 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 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.
