ICONICS Announces Alarm Analytics

Chicago, IL, ISA ‘05 – October 2005 — ICONICS, a leader in Real-time Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, today announced Alarm Analytics, the newest module for the BizViz™ suite of manufacturing intelligence software. Alarm Analytics is a robust module that will provide dashboards and real-time portal views of alarms and historical data. The BizViz suite of products provides real-time manufacturing intelligence from the production floor to the boardroom, turning data into your competitive advantage. Alarm Analytics incorporates alarm-management specifications from the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users' Association (EEMUA) and the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). These alarm-management industry specifications are becoming widely accepted in several industries that use process and discrete automation. For alarm management and incident reporting, ICONICS’ new Alarm Analytics can mine existing DCS, PLCs and SCADA systems, allowing users to leverage their existing infrastructures with a suite of reporting metrics. Alarm Analytics can provide a single view of all alarms, both real-time and historical, from OPC and non-OPC systems. "Alarm Analytics, the latest product for BizViz, introduces new alarm management and reporting solutions for manufacturing," states Jindrich Liska, Vice President of Manufacturing Intelligence for ICONICS. "Alarm Analytics is the next killer application for manufacturing intelligence and another cutting edge solution from ICONICS, as we continue to provide innovation for manufacturing intelligence applications." Alarm Analytics and BizViz V9 incorporate revolutionary Data-Mining and Integration technology, which allows the data-bridging, viewing and reporting of any real-time or enterprise data source, including Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, plant historians, OPC real-time data, SNMP and more. BizViz is an ideal solution that will be showcased at events for Microsoft’s Manufacturing Peak Performance Initiative. ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Partner, was recently awarded as a Microsoft Partner of the Year for the Technology Innovation for Business Intelligence Solutions Award. Significant features available in Alarm Analytics include:

• Alarm distribution reports by interval and priority
• Run operator response time reports
• EEMUA–compliant KPI and OEE reports
• Complies with OSHA PSM 1910.119 alarm-management specification
• Store and forward OPC alarms
• Easy correlation of alarms with archived historical data
• Create and analyze reports using Microsoft Excel
• Ability to store notes and comments to individual alarms with a single click 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, NT, 2000, and Windows Server 2003. 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 200,000 product installations worldwide. For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com.