- October 05, 2004
First HMI Software Solution to Support OPC XML-DA 1.0 Houston, TX, ISA ‘04 – October 5, 2004 — ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, announced that GENESIS32 V8 is fully compliant with OPC XML Data Access (DA) 1.0. GENESIS32 V8 is the first HMI software solution to fully support OPC XML-DA 1.0, and is also OPC DA 3.0 compliant. In addition to the new OPC support, the V8 release of the award-winning GENESIS32 industrial automation software suite offers many other new features, including stackable trend plots, powerful data mining for database connectivity, and the new VCRWorX™32, which enables the replay and reanimation of graphical, historical and alarm data. "ICONICS continues to be OPC-To-The-Core™," states Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "Adding compliance for OPC DA 3.0 and OPC XML-DA 1.0 to GENESIS32 allows the development of Web-enabled OPC visualization solutions that are firewall and IT friendly.” ICONICS is a Charter OPC Member, and is one of the first HMI suppliers to standardize on OPC. ICONICS, which helped create the specifications and sample code for OPC, sits on the Board of Directors for the OPC Foundation, and chairs both the OPC Technical Steering Committee and the Marketing Committee. "OPC XML-DA provides manufacturers a platform independent option for connectivity and interoperability for plant floor devices and equipment, enabling automation providers to add OPC support to any device that is capable of supporting a Web Service," according to Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. "OPC XML-DA simplifies sharing and exchange of data amongst the various levels of the plant hierarchy and to a wider range of platforms, providing the mechanism to create a Web Service by using XML and SOAP, which are fundamental to Internet /Intranet interoperability. GENESIS32 V8 was designed for OPC XML-DA compliancy." In addition to GENESIS32, ICONICS offers an OPC toolkit that comes in two versions: a low-cost DLL version and a full source-code version. ICONICS also offers the development tools for developers to build OPC servers with a Free Demo version of OPC ToolWorX™ toolkit, available for download at www.iconics.com/opc_tools. ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 18 years, and has successfully deployed more than 125,000 solutions worldwide. For more information, please contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600 or info@iconics, or visit the ICONICS Web site at www.iconics.com. 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, 95, 98, Millennium, and 2000, and Windows NT®. 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 125,000 product installations worldwide. For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com.