ICONICS Blog - Technology Insights

A System Integrator or Systems Integrator (SI) is a person or company that specializes in bringing together a variety of hardware and software component subsystems with ICONICS software and hardware (like Mitsubishi Electric’s or another vendor’s) into a whole integrated system and ensuring that those subsystems function harmoniously...

Even in a market that is over 30 years mature, you might think that most SCADA systems deliver similar functionality, and that one SCADA is as good as the next. This couldn't be further from the truth. This blog highlights the top ten features to look for when choosing a SCADA system and also includes additional aspects of such a system to...

Digital transformation has brought about the advent of smart buildings. These high-performance, connected, and sustainable buildings are based on strategically captured data by using building automation software like ICONICS that can be shared to optimize operations and functions. The value of a smart building from the services it provides and...

Today, more than ever, the water industry faces serious challenges with an extremely outdated infrastructure and a lack of emergency preparedness and future resiliency. To know about the current prevalent challenges the water industry is facing and how automation technology can help solve these, I interviewed our very own Andy Gribbin...

Digitalizing your smart building with ICONICS software and Azure Digital Twins is in line with Industry 4.0 smart processes and operations. And this digitalization most definitely represents the future of industry. Being able to implement the core technologies that are fundamental to Industry 4.0 digitalization such as ICONICS GENESIS64 and...

Manufacturing companies approach ICONICS and our system integrator partners looking for improvements in their OEE and for some sort of predictive awareness. And an additional part of a manufacturing efficiency project is not just to find insights into current operational challenges to improve efficiency but to go beyond this for predictive...

Conversations about efficiency gains with customers typically center around the customer hoping for manufacturing gains/efficiency. They're not quite sure what it is they need, but they do know they need to improve efficiency, quality, performance, and uptime. These gains can be realized through Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to...

As part of its Transform 360 series, ICONICS hosted the “Learn from the SCADA Experts & Become a Power User” webcast. This practical and informative event covered pertinent background and areas: Scott Kiser, ICONICS Director of Global Partner Channel Development, provided an overview of ICONICS, the company and the software, and...

In one of ICONICS Transform 360 webcast series, “Hardening Your System Against Cyber Attacks”, experts in cybersecurity and remote connectivity explained how the threat of cybercrime is growing with increasing breaches that are resulting in substantial security-related and financial impacts. Additionally, the...

Having recently given his 10-year-old son an iPhone, Kyle noticed that the games his son downloaded are slight variations of the same game that are built with the same code base. And it struck Kyle that the industrial software market seems to be evolving like that of this particular game app market. Game creators are delivering super...