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A Practical Guide to Assessing Your Digital Transformation Needs


This guide provides a practical method for assessing the best solutions to begin or advance a company’s digital transformation by applying the Smart Manufacturing Kaizen Level (SMKL) method established by Mitsubishi Electric. Specifically, this guide explains the SMKL method, illustrates how to use the SMKL method, walks through two typical customer...

Advanced 3D HMI SCADA Visualization


This whitepaper presents an overview of a powerful approach to visualization of manufacturing that greatly reduces the learning curve for developing HMI applications.

Air Quality Monitoring Solution with ICONICS and Sysinno


As part of ICONICS’ commitment to the wellbeing of our customers, we have partnered with Sysinno to create an air quality monitoring solution that will be described in detail in this article to serve as a blueprint for your air quality monitoring needs.

ARC: Deploying 64-bit HMI SCADA


Manufacturers are developing business cases that demonstrate how 64-bit HMI/SCADA software visualization can be easily adapted to the operator's needs while incorporating the manufacturing requirements for optimal operation.

ARC: Helping Oil & Gas Businesses Meet Today’s Challenges


To meet today's challenges, owner-operators in the upstream oil & gas industry need to be able to provide employees at all levels of the organization with effective data visualization, appropriate analytics, and other real-time decision support tools.

ARC: ICONICS’ New Industrial Mobile HMI Apps: Any Glass, Anywhere


New mobile HMI applications are beginning to gain traction in the industrial world. ICONICS' MobileHMI™ demonstrates many of the features and capabilities that will drive increasing user acceptance of these types of industrial apps.

ARC: Software Tool Helps Manufacturers Manage Energy as a Product Cost


ICONICS has combined new energy analytics software with its existing HMI software platform and connectivity options to create a solution for energy management, targeting discrete manufacturing industries, process industries, and buildings.

ARC: Water and Wastewater Utilities Optimized as Single Operational Systems


Many water and wastewater utilities continue to strive for improved efficiency, productivity, and the capability to meet newly specified sustainability goals for their operations, all while maintaining critical water quality and effluent requirements.

Augmented Reality and Wearable Devices


As mobile devices have become ubiquitous in industry and society, hardware and software vendors have begun creating new applications for this technology, including wearable devices and augmented reality. Both of these fit well into ICONICS’ product ecosystem, which already provides mobile-friendly solutions with its MobileHMI apps, touch input methods,...

BACnet Advanced Workstation PICS


ICONICS GENESIS64™'s Platform Services provides the ability to monitor and control BACnet devices over a BACnet/IP network, or through a BACnet router to any BACnet device.

Best Practices in Manufacturing Operations


Executives face numerous challenges in effectively managing global manufacturing operations. In today's economic environment, the number one driving force behind focusing on manufacturing operations is to "reduce the total cost of manufacturing." The new research presented in this whitepaper will show how the use of industrial automation software and a...

Combining IoTWorX and Azure Stream Analytics on Azure IoT Edge


Both IoTWorX and Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) have large sets of functions that can be programmed. However, many of those functions are supported in IoTWorX but not ASA, and vice versa. The combination of the two increases edge computing capabilities and can therefore support more complex intelligent edge scenarios. This white paper...

Connecting a Delta VFD to Microsoft Azure using ICONICS IoTWorX


Remotely monitoring and managing buildings has many benefits, from reducing operational costs to improving the experience of the tenants in the building. It is not only valuable, but in many cases essential, for example when the premises are distant and there are no local resources to address problems or optimize configurations. This whitepaper...

Connecting a FLIR thermal camera to Microsoft Azure using ICONICS IoTWorX


This whitepaper details an example of how to connect a thermal camera to a cloud-based monitoring system using IoTWorX and Microsoft Azure. The example here involves monitoring temperature readings and alerts from a thermal camera installed in a remote location. Learn how with this step-by-step guide.

Creating a Virtual Machine with an ICONICS Offer on the Azure Marketplace


ICONICS products can be easily hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform by creating a virtual machine using the ICONICS published Virtual Machine offering for your desired product version from the Azure Marketplace. The virtual machine offers by ICONICS on the Azure Marketplace contain the complete installation of GENESIS64™, Hyper Historian™, IoTWorX...

Cyber Security Threats eBook


This whitepaper explains what you want and need in a secure system. Like all software and hardware, HMI/SCADA and industrial control hardware are a potential target. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are uniquely high-value targets as they are responsible for critical infrastructure. This paper will explain how to exactly distinguish one attack from...

DataWorX32™ Configuration Guide


This paper quickly guides users through the capabilities of DataWorX32™, the configuration of which can be easily reproduced by first time users who have a basic understanding of OPC.

Energy Smart Buildings Readiness Guide


The Energy Smart Buildings Readiness Guide provides valuable information on how to make and operate a smart building. This guide explains what is meant by smart building readiness. It also explains networking, open protocols, interoperability, documentation, and key performance indicators for smart building readiness.


Fault Tolerance Redundancy


This document contains information on the features of several ICONICS products and third-party products that may be of use to companies wishing to apply fault tolerance and redundancy to their GENESIS32™ or BizViz™ system. An overview of HMI redundancy schemes and a summary on how they can be applied to the GENESIS32 and BizViz product families is...

GENESIS64™ FDA 21CFR11 Capabilities


This paper provides useful info on features of several GENESIS64™ components that may be useful to companies wishing to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

High Performance HMI Guide


This whitepaper explains what a high performance HMI is, the drivers for establishing industry standards, and how these HMIs deliver the next level of user experience and operational efficiency. This document also provides essential considerations and constructive recommendations for designing and deploying high performance HMIs.

Highly Secure HMI SCADA and Automation Systems


ICONICS products have a history of installation in extremely critical and secure applications. These applications require our products to be designed for, and tested to, rigid requirements. ICONICS uses features such as encryption, certificate authentication, user and system encrypted passwords, and obfuscation to provide the highest level of security...

Hyper Historian™ Performance


This paper provides the results of ICONICS Hyper Historian™ data historian performance tests, including both the Standard and Enterprise editions.

ICONICS IoTWorX™ Whitepaper


This paper discusses some opportunities that the Internet of Things brings to the process, factory and building automation industries in general. Additionally, it describes the steps that ICONICS is taking to leverage this new technology to integrate IoT into one of the world’s most advanced HMI/SCADA, Building Automation, Energy Management and...

ICONICS Suite Section 508 Compliance and VPAT V1


This document helps towards choosing software to meet accessibility standards and produce accessible content. Compliance information is provided for most ICONICS products, in addition to a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) that details all the regulations of the U.S. Section 508 accessibility standard.

ICONICS Sustainability Solutions Brief


This paper provides an overview of ICONICS energy management and sustainability solutions that help customers reduce energy costs, cut consumption, curtail carbon emissions and significantly streamline facilities maintenance.

Improve the Security of an ICONICS Virtual Machine from Azure Marketplace


With the availability of ICONICS’ virtual machine offers on the Azure Marketplace, it is now incredibly easy and quick to create an ICONICS environment on Microsoft Azure. However, for applications that require an elevated security posture, this whitepaper outlines the recommended steps to take, post-deployment, to improve the security posture of the...

Installing IoTWorX on IoT Edge


In this whitepaper, we show how to install IoTWorX on Azure IoT Edge, deployed and managed from our Azure cloud, resulting in reduced deployment and management efforts, and increased security.

Installing IoTWorX on IoT Edge on Windows using EFLOW


In this whitepaper, we show how to install IoTWorX on Microsoft’s IoT Edge, using Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) and managed using Microsoft Update. By installing IoTWorX on a Windows computer and analyzing device data locally, users can react to events quickly, and operate offline.

Integrating Cognian's Syncromesh IoT Network with ICONICS


The Internet of Things (IoT) is augmenting our understanding of the world around us by connecting the physical aspects of our environment with the digital platforms that simplify our lives.

To realize the transformative power of IoT, a key infrastructure to have is a communication network that spans the environment, allowing easy...

Internet of Things – MQTT Publishing Format for Consumption by GENESIS64


This whitepaper describes the JSON message schema configuration in ICONICS Suite to connect to any MQTT enabled sensor or other IoT devices.

KPI OEE and Downtime Analytics


This document defines and illustrates the collection and use of metric data in determining process efficiency and the reasons for the loss of time or process and specifically explains the ICONICS Downtime Analytics solution and the modules that comprise it. An efficient, flexible methodology using the ICONICS BizViz™ and GENESIS32™ software suites is...

Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions


This document contains information about the features of several ICONICS products and third-party products that may be of use to companies wishing to apply manufacturing intelligence solutions. Manufacturers recognize that each process provides a vital link to real-time data for the enterprise as a whole, which is especially critical with the move...

Measuring Occupancy with Delta Controls O3 Sense, Azure IoT, and ICONICS


Monitoring the occupancy of spaces in commercial buildings and spaces has many benefits, especially for security, safety, and energy conservation. Accurate occupancy information is critical in a smart building solution.

In this whitepaper, we describe an occupancy sensing solution that leverages Delta Controls’ unique multi sensor device...

Monitoring Building Air Quality


Monitoring the quality of the air inside or outside of buildings, and in particular the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulates (PM), is important for understanding the environment and for enabling building owners to provide a healthier place for people to live and work. Clearly, monitoring the air quality in and around the buildings is...

Monitoring Building Power Consumption


Monitoring power consumption of buildings or equipment is an important component in understanding and therefore reducing operational costs and maintenance costs, and increasing sustainability. The workflow detailed in this whitepaper demonstrates one way of monitoring power consumption.

OPC UA Defined and How It Impacts Automation


This document defines the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) communications technology as it relates to applications within industrial automation and business process control. Also included is a discussion of how ICONICS scalable software products may be applied in a Microsoft framework as a strategy for coordinating disparate systems into a unified...

OPC UA Defined and How it Impacts Oil & Gas


This paper defines the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) communications technology as it relates to applications within the oil and gas industry and its operations.

Real Time Solutions for Sustainable Energy and Facility Management


ICONICS' Sustainability Software Solutions include the native capability to integrate across the enterprise to access and merge real-time info on energy and resource consumption, carbon emissions and causes of excessive consumption.

Recipe Management System


This paper outlines the ICONICS Recipe Management System by providing examples that illustrate the capabilities of this tool in ICONICS GENESIS32™, which can be used to manage and control real-time processes.

Renewable Energy Solutions Brief


The driving forces for the development of renewable energy consist of concerns for energy security, a global aversion to continued environmental degradation and possible climate change.

SNMP Quick Start and Introduction


This paper introduces basic info on the SNMP communications protocol, as well as how to create a display in GraphWorX32™ that shows useful SNMP information coming from the network.

Strategies for Operational Excellence


This document summarizes recommended approaches for applying ICONICS software technology in automated operational environments that seek continuous improvement to approach a state of “Operational Excellence”. Discussed are methods to increase coordination of business systems with real-time controllers, to create unified views of machine-controlled and...

Symphony of Software Saves Millions (Microsoft 88 Acres Story)


This document explains how a small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft applied an “Internet of Things meets Big Data” approach to invent a data-driven software solution based upon ICONICS COTS software. This solution is slashing the cost of operating the campus’ 125 buildings saving Microsoft millions of dollars. The application has been so...

Unified Data Manager Configuration Guide


This paper guides users through the capabilities of the Unified Data Manager (UDM), describing configurations that can be easily reproduced by first time users who have a basic understanding of OPC.

Using IoTWorX as a Gateway in Microsoft Azure Deployments


Thank you for your interest in ICONICS! Learn about the steps to using IoTWorX as a gateway in Microsoft Azure Deployments in this whitepaper.

Washington Athletic Club Cover Story


This reprint from Touch magazine provides an overview of Microsoft customer, Washington Athletic Club, and their installation of ICONICS software to monitor energy usage and regulate consumption in real time.

Writing to Devices from Microsoft Azure Using IoTWorX


This whitepaper describes how to set up IoTWorX to write values to devices such as setpoints, sensors, actuators, and more. The steps described are relatively simple – you create an application that connects to the Azure IoT Hub and sends the new values to the IoTWorX gateway device. Learn more by downloading today.