Iconics Delivers Automation Suite for Windows CE

Microsoft calls them the showcase company for Microsoft in the industrial automation arena. Its booth at National Industrial Automation is buzzing with activity (and cappuccino). And its "OPC to the core" mantra is giving it the ability to be the first to market with a suite of automation software for the Windows CE platform. Who is it? The company is none other than Foxborough, MA-based Iconics, a developer of industrial automation software tools.

Iconics announced in Chicago, Pocket Genesis CE, a suite of OLE for Process Control (OPC) compliant applications for factory automation that can run on Hitachi SH3, MIPS and Intel processors. According to Russ Agrusa, president of Iconics, Pocket Genesis CE is the first suite of applications to include Industrial DCOM capabilities. "Industrial DCOM provides full TCP/IP and remote networking capability for wiring factory floor embedded, industrial HMI and mobile HPC devices," he says.

Via Industrial DCOM, Pocket Genesis CE can interface with virtually any third party MES or MRP systems. "Windows CE is the technology that enables users to take full advantage of enterprise integration," says Agrusa.

The Pocket Genesis CE suite includes applications for HMI, SCADA and Web server. The first product, Pocket TrendWorX CE provides historical data query directly to and from native Microsoft SCL Server and Access databases. According to Iconics, this is the first industrial automation trending and historian product to run on Windows CE.

Two additional products in the suite, Pocket GraphWorX CE and Pocket AlarmWorX CE, provide both high performance HMI and remote alarming capabilities using the OPC Data Access and OPC Alarm and Events standards.

Stop by Iconics booth (6240) for an excellent cup of cappuccino and a taste of what Microsoft's DNA for Manufacturing holds in store for the industrial automation market.