Company Blog - SCADA & Automation Software

Legacy HMI/SCADA systems are reaching end-of-life, making full replacement more valuable than incremental upgrades. This blog outlines a comprehensive checklist to guide your transition to a future-ready SCADA platform with modern security, scalability, and performance.

This practical guide explains how to properly size and scale GENESIS version 11 for your SCADA and digitalization projects. Learn what a node is, when to move from a single-tier to a multi-node or multi-tier architecture, and how factors like tag count, scan rate, and system load affect performance. Whether you’re building a small system...

Choosing the right data storage in industrial automation impacts performance and uptime. This blog compares process historians, time-series databases, and relational databases—highlighting reliability, performance, and data lifecycle differences. Learn why GENESIS includes an integrated process historian...

Kyle transformed from obese to fit by tracking his health metrics, proving that measurement drives improvement. Understanding the critical role of data, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions (MEIDS) made a bold move to embed an unlimited process historian into GENESIS version 11. Now our customers can deploy more intelligent data-centric...

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions (MEIDS) turns it up to 11 with version 11 to go above and beyond what automation software is today. Customers get unparalleled value with GENESIS version 11’s advanced visualization, data-centric design, extensibility, connectivity, rapid deployment, and so much more. And version 11 is...

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions (MEIDS) boldly takes its latest version of GENESIS – version 11 – where no automation software has gone before. With version 11, MEIDS bravely sets a new standard for SCADA software. Organizations will be able to deploy a diverse array of digitalization project solutions quickly and...

High performance HMIs have simpler designed graphic displays with standards-driven recommendations for navigation and presentation and monochromatic color schemes that provide clear and actionable information. Operators therefore do not waste time or make mistakes interpreting operational displays and in fact can do their job with more accuracy,...

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...

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 GENESIS suite by Mitsubishi...