Industrial Automation Software Suite facilitates viewing of plant floor data.

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Utilizing OPC Unified Architecture and 64-bit multi-core hardware platforms, GENESIS64 suite v10.5 helps simplify connectivity from plant floor to corporate business systems. It is certified for Microsoft Windows® Vista(TM), Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 and lets users integrate real-time manufacturing and business information into common, Web-enabled visualization dashboard. Features include Silverlight v3.0 support, redundancy, and support for Multi-touch Connectivity.



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GENESIS64 v10.5 Packed with Game Changing Technology



Supports Silverlight, Windows 7, Redundancy and much more

Houston, TX - ISA '09 October 7, 2009, Today, ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year, and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, announced the availability of GENESIS v10.5.

Designed from the ground up utilizing OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) and 64-bit multi-core hardware platforms, the GENESIS64 suite includes several modular solutions that simplify connectivity from the plant floor to corporate business systems. Certified for Microsoft Windows® Vista(TM), Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, it allows plant operators and IT professionals to integrate real-time manufacturing and business information into a common, Web-enabled visualization dashboard. The GENESIS64 suite is comprised of GraphWorX(TM)64, TrendWorX(TM)64, AlarmWorX(TM)64, EarthWorX(TM) and the Workbench Web-based development, deployment and operations products.

"ICONICS works closely with Microsoft, and being a managed Gold Certified Partner allows us to always remain at the cutting edge of technology for the good of our industrial automation/building controls customers," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "GENESIS64 is helping customers to better visualize their business applications and truly lights up the rich visual features that is available with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7."

GENESIS64, certified for Windows 7 and designed from the ground up for 64-Bit computing takes advantage of 3-D hardware acceleration, Windows Presentation Foundation, Multi-touch and more resulting in an increase in productivity for users.

GENESIS64 offers the following new features:

  • Silverlight 3.0 support, view your data in IE, FireFox, Safari, Opera, and more
  • High-availability redundancy
  • Support for Multi-touch Connectivity
  • Cover Flow Navigation Technology and Customizable Ribbons
  • New AlarmWorX64 Multimedia for sending multimedia alarm notifications
  • New Workbench "Project Pack and Go" for easy project backups and deployment
  • One click support for adding multiple trending data points to Historian or TrendWorX64
  • Seamless integration with Microsoft Bing Maps via ICONICS EarthWorX(TM)
  • New GENESIS64 OPC-UA Redundancy - Supporting DA and Historical Data
  • Support for importing COLLADA objects with Kinematics into GraphWorX64 3-D
  • New Pre-configure Connection to Remote OPC-UA Servers

    "It was critical to ICONICS' strategy to be an early recipient of Windows 7 certification to fully leverage GENESIS64 as a .NET 64-bit product, taking advantage of the convergence of 64-bit-based computing machinery, the newest Microsoft operating systems and technologies, and customer requirements for 3D visualization of both manufacturing and business processes", according to Craig Resnick, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group. "Windows 7, running on computers with new 64-bit processors, will further enhance ICONICS real-time visualization and control solutions used to provide 360-degree views of the plant floor, along with leveraging features such as Multi - Touch and Silverlight."

    ICONICS Background Information
    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(TM) Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. GENESIS64(TM) takes advantage of 64-bit processors running 64-bit optimized Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. 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® 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 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.

    © 2009 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. GENESIS, 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.
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