News | April 16, 2008

ICONICS Enhances BizViz With Productivity Analytics

Foxborough, MA - ICONICS released Productivity Analytics, which complements the existing BizViz products including ReportWorX, BridgeWorX, PortalWorX, MobileHMI and Alarm Analytics products.

Productivity Analytics empowers decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with real-time and accurate information to help drive global efficiency and strengthen competitive market advantage. Users are able to gain insight into operations through real-time data aggregation and connectivity to multiple data sources, presented in an intuitive and intelligent manner.

Features include thin client Web-based configuration, configurable KPIs, automated, on-demand reporting, intuitive Web-based user interface, real-time alert notification, alarm performance benchmarking, OEE delivered to wireless devices, role-based, secure dashboards, and flexible shift scheduling.

BizViz Alarm Analytics provides rapid analysis, visualization, reporting and management of alarms, resulting in improved plant reliability, faster response times and deeper process understanding. Users are able to improve efficiency by uncovering alarm patterns, events and response times via an OSHA-/EEMUA-compliant solution.

BizViz suite of Manufacturing Intelligence/Business Visualization and Analytics solutions visualizes and integrates the plant floor to the top floor, taking maximum advantage of Microsoft.NET technology. BizViz connects the factory floor to the enterprise using .NET, Web services, ASP.NET, SNMP, OPC-UA and other Web-enabling technologies.

"ICONICS has added a Productivity Analytics solution to its BizViz suite of Manufacturing Intelligence products," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "With this powerful suite of applications, customers can take maximum advantage of the time-saving, reporting, bridging, Web portal, mobility, alarm analysis and productivity analysis features to capitalize on data between manufacturing and corporate business systems."

"The introduction of Productivity Analytics combines with the existing Alarm Analytics solution," said Melissa Topp, Product Marketing Manager at ICONICS, "to provide an advanced ‘BizViz Analytics' manufacturing intelligence platform that emphasizes lean concepts and methodologies to help drive improvements directly to your bottom line."

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 industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 21 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000 solutions worldwide.

SOURCE: ICONICS