Press Release Summary: New Software Helps Facilities Managers Reduce Costs, Increase
Security and Efficiency
Press Release Body: FOXBOROUGH, MA - October 15, 2008 - Today, ICONICS, a 2008
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based,
HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft
Windows(r) operating systems, announced its new FacilityWorX(tm) visualization software
module for integration with facility-based systems.
With OPC-To-The-Core(tm) technology from ICONICS, and built on the industry standard
BACnet protocol, FacilityWorX is a robust, secure integration platform for Building
Automation Systems. With the high cost of energy, and companies implementing Green
initiatives, ICONICS is able to deliver a solution to help cut energy costs with an
intelligent, easy to use facility management software module.
FacilityWorX is a component of ICONICS' GENESIS32(tm) HMI/SCADA suite, featuring Web-
based configuration based on the ICONICS .NET Workbench configuration environment.
Utilizing industry standard BACNET technology, FacilityWorX takes a combination of
several ICONICS solutions and tailors them for specific integration with today's
Building Management Systems. Among these tools are: ICONICS GENESIS32 Web-based,
OPC-integrated HMI/SCADA suite; AlarmWorX(tm)32 Multimedia (MMX) alarm notification
system; ScheduleWorX(tm)32 calendar-based scheduling tool; ReportWorX(tm) Lite
reporting/charting/analysis software and several related communication protocols.
FacilityWorX also utilizes an all-new Web interface based on the Workbench
multi-functional, centralized configuration environment found in ICONICS' GENESIS64(tm)
64-bit HMI/SCADA suite.
"ICONICS has over 40,000 building control applications worldwide and this is a key
market for us," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "ICONICS understands
the need for a facility-centric HMI/SCADA solution. FacilityWorX combines several
ICONICS technologies built on industry standards to meet the visualization and
control needs of facility managers and staff."
ICONICS FacilityWorX helps to meet facility managers' key concerns such as reducing
costs, increasing security, decreasing alarm response times and achieving overall
better efficiency. This new software is meant to provide visualization and control
into multiple facility-based systems including those used for standard environmental
control, power/energy management, backup power/UPS/power generation, chillers,
boiler/furnaces, security/access control/video, and fire alarms, just to name a few.
"One of the key drivers for facility management has been to meet the new
'Sustainability' challenges," said Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory
Group. "Sustainability is the response to the increased pressure on the environment,
the rising demand for natural resources, energy, and the need for a socially
responsible approach to business. Sustainability will drive automation towards a
higher level of collaboration between systems, functionality that FacilityWorX
appears to leverage by combining visualization, alarm management, scheduling,
reporting and analysis on a common platform. Sustainability is a positive business
approach that has as much to do with delivering economic benefits as it has to do
with reducing the environmental impact."
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(r) Windows(r) operating
systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components
and products, GENESIS32(tm) Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP
Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server
2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS(tm) for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up
based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core(tm) framework. BizViz(tm) 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(r) Controls,
OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server(r)-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.
(c) 2008 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change
without notice. GENESIS64, GENESIS32, Pocket GENESIS, BizViz and their respective
modules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICS
Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
Web Site:
http://www.iconics.com/news/press_release_display.asp?Release=081015%5FFacilityWorX%2Ehtm
Contact Details: Tim Donaldson
Director of Marketing
ICONICS
100 Foxborough Blvd.
Foxborough, MA 02035
phone: 508-543-8600
fax: 508-543-1503
timd@iconics.com
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