ICONICS Announces DataWorX32 OPC Tunneling

Chicago, IL, ISA ‘05 – October 2005 — ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, today announced OPC Tunneling technology for its award-winning DataWorX™32 application. The robust OPC tunneling in DataWorX32 Version 9 will support all OPC standards, including OPC Data Access 3.0, OPC Alarm and Events 1.10, and OPC Historical Data Access 1.20. OPC Tunneling connects a remote OPC server to a local client in a robust and secure manner, and it allows for one server to be redirected to more than one location. The powerful graphical user interface allows for easy configuration and a centralized place to manage all remote connections. The underlying technology behind OPC Tunneling is the patented ICONICS GenClient/GenBroker™ communication protocol, which provides a faster and more robust communication path than standard DCOM communications. OPC Tunneling communicates through firewalls and Network Address Translators (NAT). "OPC Tunneling supports the open OPC standards, and will support the future OPC Unified Architecture," states Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "Adding OPC Tunneling to the already robust DataWorX32 product allows OPC developers to take advantage of the most secure OPC communication path for remote servers." DataWorX32 is a powerful data-optimization tool, as well as an easy-to-configure redundancy solution for any OPC-based application. The patented OPC data aggregation technology found in DataWorX32 will lower network traffic by aggregating server-to-client requests, leading to a reduction in CPU load and an increase in performance. Significant features OPC Tunneling adds to DataWorX32 V9 include:

• Based on transparent open industry standards
• OPC Data Access 3.0 communications over LANs, WANs and the Internet
• OPC Alarm and Events 1.10 communications over LANs, WANs and the Internet
• OPC Historical Data Access 1.20 communications over LANs, WANs and the Internet
• Communicates through firewalls and Network Address Translators (NAT)
• Provides a robust alternative to standard DCOM communications
• Supports TCP/IP, DCOM, and SOAP/XML communication protocols
• Supports standard OPC browser interfaces
• Auto discovery of remote OPC servers 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.