ICONICS Blog - Technology Insights

Selecting the right SCADA is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your manufacturing and infrastructure performance, reliability, and overall success of your IT and OT systems. Factors to consider include performance, reliability, redundancy, technical support, northbound and southbound protocol connectivity, flexibility, proven...

Selecting the right OPC Server is a crucial decision that can significantly impact the performance, reliability, and overall success of your control system. Factors to consider include performance, reliability, redundancy, technical support, northbound and southbound connectivity, flexibility, proven track record, distribution, compatibility...

The ICONICS suite can be deployed on-premises, in private clouds/datacenters, and in public cloud environments. In addition, and for your convenience, ICONICS provides pre-configured solutions in Azure Marketplace that you can run on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. Our support for Azure lets you create a development system in the Cloud...

Given the serious and disturbing effects of climate change, we look to the EV industry and its suppliers as sustainability role models. It is therefore critical for these organizations to lock in sustainability in their manufacturing processes, and they can do this with modern advanced automation software like the ICONICS suite of products. With...

One way to ensure that the EV industry and its suppliers meet the rocketing demand for electric vehicles is to realize predictive maintenance. As a data-driven strategy that uses real-time insights to predict failures, predictive maintenance optimizes maintenance...

“Plug-n-play” no/low code SCADA systems have the necessary functionality and flexibility so that both system integrators and end users can manage and make the most out of these systems. More importantly, no/low code SCADAs benefit end users in many ways including ease of use, rapid development, lower costs, increased agility, and...

Digital transformation is the process, many call it a journey, of incorporating digital solutions, strategies, and advanced technologies into traditional industrial factories/processes to bring about smart industrial factories/processes with greatly improved operations, productivity and work efficiency. It's a game changer for...

Mitsubishi Electric and ICONICS make an impressive collaboration as both companies specialize in providing advanced solutions for industrial automation and control systems. The combined expertise and technologies allow both companies to offer customers a wider range of products and services, enhance their innovation capabilities to solve...

OPC is an extensively used interoperability standard for industrial automation that allows different automation systems to communicate and consequently has become a common denominator across HMI/SCADA solutions. As an influential adopter and major supporter of OPC technology, ICONICS chose the most open technological path and therefore leverages...

Key takeaways for achieving improved power management for data centers include: Match customers’ data storage needs with facility location and connectivity requirements; Use sustainable energy where possible; Upgrade to smaller and better designed equipment.; Look at total power consumption to measure facility efficiency.; and Leverage...