******************************************************************************** ICONICS NEWS - ISSUE 1 February 2005 ******************************************************************************** THE ICONICS UK LTD. NEWSLETTER Welcome to the New Look ICONICS UK Newsletter, we hope you will find this issue informative. This issue focuses on the release of our new BizViz V8 Manufacturing Intelligence products PortalWorX and BridgeWorX. Our Worldwide Customer Summit will be held March 21-23 in Orlando, Florida. The theme of this event is Increase Manufacturing Productivity with .NET Technology. The summit will feature many of our partners and customers. We will have numerous hands-on breakout sessions at this exciting event. We hope to see many of you in Orlando in March. Thank you for your continued interest and support. ******** CONTENTS ******** - ICONICS NEWS - SALES NEWS - TECHNICAL UPDATE - INDUSTRY NEWS - EVENTS - ICONICS TRAINING - OTHER NEWS ******************************************************************************** ICONICS NEWS ******************************************************************************** VCRWorX - View your process both now ....... and back in time! The powerful new application VCRWorX was recently introduced with the GENESIS32 V8 release. VCRWorX provides plant personnel with an innovative way to visualise historical data from the plant floor. From the friendly VCRWorX on-screen control, users can select a start time, playback speed, and step mode for viewing. Users can compare live views with historical views and make real-time set-point changes resulting in less waste. To find out more click here http://www.iconics-uk.com/products/pdf/vcrworx_pb.pdf GENEISIS32 V7 Service Pack 2 is released Genesis32 v7 Service Pack 2 is released and will be shipping to all current GENESIS32 7 SupportWorX Customers, System Integrators and Sales Channel Partners over the next several weeks. The GENESIS3 V7 SP2 installs without having to remove or uninstall GENESIS32 V7 or any components. The SP2 CD will also upgrade any International GENESIS32 V7 installation. The GENESIS32 V7 SP2 upgrade makes any GENESIS32 V7 application compliant with Microsoft XP SP2 and includes over 100 “hot fixes” including redundancy switchover for GENESIS32 Security server. Upgrading your application for Microsoft XP SP2 allows you to take advantage of the added Firewall and several security enhancements Microsoft has built into XP SP2. Click here to find out more information on Windows XP SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2 Register today to attend the ICONICS Worldwide Customer Summit Mark your calendars for the 2005 ICONICS Worldwide Customer Summit to be held at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort March 21–23, 2005 in Orlando, FL. The theme of the Summit is “Increase Manufacturing Productivity with .NET Technology.” The Summit will focus on solutions for improving productivity while reducing integration and operating costs. Summit attendees will gain extensive knowledge in bridging real-time systems and business systems, and will observe real-life examples of the latest technology for HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence, including GENESIS32 V8, BizViz V8, Microsoft .NET and much more. ICONICS' GENESIS32 and BizViz customers, system integrators, sales channel and OEM partners are invited. For more information & to register click here http://www.iconics.com/Summit2005 ICONICS introduces PortalWorX to the BizViz Suite PortalWorX V8 PortalWorX™, the newest software product in the ICONICS BizViz™ V8 Manufacturing Intelligence Suite, provides the ideal collaborative platform to easily create and manage custom manufacturing and business intelligence portals and visualization dashboards. Built on Microsoft® SharePoint™ and .NET technologies, PortalWorX provides everything necessary to create custom and personalized portals that seamlessly integrate real-time, historical plant and business information. Powerful single sign-on technology allows users to quickly log in to multiple HMI/ SCADA and business systems, increasing productivity by providing rapid overall system access. PortalWorX also includes a Layout Editor that enables users to create customized portal layouts. Using .NET Web parts, users can integrate information coming from anywhere in the enterprise. PortalWorX provides an extensive library of interactive Web parts, which provide HMI/SCADA, rich graphics visualization, trending, charting, alarming, and reporting. Web parts can easily be dragged and dropped to instantly create real-time manufacturing dashboards To find out more click here http://www.iconics-uk.com/news/pdf/portalworx_pb.pdf ICONICS introduces BridgeWorX to the BizViz Suite BridgeWorX V8 BridgeWorX™, also a new member of the BizViz V8 Manufacturing Intelligence Suite, provides unique data integration and interface management that requires no programming. Built on .NET technology, BridgeWorX provides powerful data-mining of virtually any real-time or corporate database. Simple function block configuration does all the work. BridgeWorX has many applications where the exchange of data is required, such as recipe management and moving blocks of information to and from real-time plant systems to corporate business systems. Information can be bridged from many different data sources, including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, ODBC, OLEDB, MSDE, Oracle®, and OPC historical, alarm, and real-time data. BridgeWorX also data-mines applications or databases via Web services technology. Based on a unique graphical transaction technology, BridgeWorX configurations are easy to set up. A transaction represents a logical flowchart of data transfer and business logic tasks executed in a user-configured order. Transactions can be scheduled to trigger based on time, date, alarms, events, OPC tags, and database values. Users can be notified of transaction status by e-mail and other methods. To find out more click here http://www.iconics-uk.com/news/pdf/bridgeworx_pb.pdf Example some text click here now nowhere ******************************************************************************** SALES NEWS ******************************************************************************** SUCCESS STORIES Town of Tonawanda Tonawanda, NY The Town of Tonawanda formed in 1836 is located north of Buffalo, with a population approximately 80,000. The Water Resource Department operates and maintains hundreds of miles of water and sewer lines. Each year billions of gallons of water drawn from the Niagara River are treated, distributed, collected and cleaned in order to serve their residents. The name Tonawanda, “Swift Waters” was given to the area by Neuter and Eric Indians, the original inhabitants. Click here to read more... http://www.iconics-uk.com/success/pdf/SS-Water-Tonawanda_Water.pdf United Biscuits UK Quality is a primary concern for McVitie’s, part of United Biscuits (UB). At their plant in Tollcross, Glasgow, they have developed a control technology, which puts them in the front line on this point, as well as reinforcing the approach to innovative solutions encouraged across the business. Click here to read more... http://www.iconics-uk.com/success/pdf/SS-Food-United_Biscuits.pdf ******************************************************************************** TECHNICAL UPDATE ******************************************************************************** LATEST KNOWLEDGE BASE ARTICLE(S) 221 - Configuring ICONICS Security ICONICS provides a powerful security tool that can be configured to allow and disallow access to all components and features by utilising a user name and password system. It can be used to configure users and associate those users with specific Groups. These Groups can be given varying degrees of access to sensitive or plant critical operations thereby ensuring specific users only have access to those functions that are necessary. Click here to read more... http://www.iconics-uk.com/kb/sa.php?ID=221 PATCHES WebHMI Versioning Utility (version 7) download... /downloads/patches/webhmi-28-2-2005.zip ******************************************************************************** INDUSTRY NEWS ******************************************************************************** OPC Complex Data: New Capabilities Maximize Object-Oriented Systems Control - December 2004 The OPC Complex Data specification, released in December 2003, describes a new way to pass data from one OPC DA server to another, making it easier for vendors, OEMs, machine builders and end users to connect new, smarter devices together. The current DA specification requires data items to be simple types or arrays of simple types, so OPC DA servers represent data as a sequence of bytes. Under the current specs, there is no way describe the structure of these bytes. Clients receiving structured data are unable to interpret it unless the OPC server provides the data as items or arrays of simple data types. Read more of this article... http://www.iconics.com/news/article_display.asp?Article=Ctrl1204%5F1%2Ehtm ******************************************************************************** EVENTS ******************************************************************************** WEBCASTS APRIL 2005 Tue 05th 17:00 - Reporting for the Real-time Enterprise Fri 15th 14:00 - OPC DA 3.0 and OPC XML Standards Wed 20th 17:00 - HMI/SCADA for Today's Automation Wed 27th 14:00 - Manufacturing Portals and Visualization Dashboards MAY 2005 Tue 03rd 14:00 - Building Robust Alarm and Trend Applications Fri 20th 17:00 - Understanding OPC’s New Unified Architecture More about ICONICS webcasts... http://www.iconics.com/events/webcast.asp How to participate in webcasts... http://www.iconics-uk.com/events/Webcast%20App%20Note.pdf SHOWS ******************************************************************************** ICONICS TRAINING ******************************************************************************** MAY 2005 Mon 23rd - Wed 25th Standard GENESIS32 JUNE 2005 Mon 06th - Tue 07th Standard BizViz JULY 2005 Mon 04th - Wed 06th Standard GENESIS32 SEPTEMBER 2005 Mon 19th - Tue 20th Standard BizViz To book a training session... http://www.iconics-uk.com/support/training.php ******************************************************************************** OTHER NEWS ******************************************************************************** ICONICS UK Ltd. 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