Automation, process engineering and IT managers primarily representing the Life-Sciences and Automotive sectors were assembled at the Waterford Viking Ramada Hotel on Wednesday the 15th of November for Dataworks' seminar to share their experiences through case studies and discussions. After discussing how some of the local companies are working towards achieving operational excellence, ICONICS

Heathrow Terminal 5 building. In the afternoon Liam Curham, Dataworks’ technical director shared with the attendees some of the findings of his research, carried out in association with Enterprise Ireland, on future trends and key business drivers in the Life-Sciences industry. Cully Automation, the Irish ICONICS distributor in the Water/Waste Water treatment industry was also present on the day to launch the new version 9 of the ICONICS Industrial Automation Software Suites. We would like to thank all attendees for making this seminar a success and are looking forward to see you all back next year.

Pictured above are from left to right: Brian Robinson, Dataworks - Marc Roosli, Dataworks - Arjan Korzilius, ICONICS UK - Liam Curham, Dataworks - Clive Walton, ICONICS UK

Southeast-based leading toys and games manufacturer has recently selected the ICONICS Genesis32 V9 toolset to develop an Automated Plant Information Retrieval and Display System. Dataworks engineers will work in tandem with the customer's engineering team in setting up a pilot project on a portion of their process prior to rolling it out plant wide.

Last but not least the man himself called into our offices for a surprise visit over the weekend. Nothing was left under the Christmas tree but his picture and a URL! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Everyone. As per last year, we have decided to send a digital Christmas card and make a donation to charity instead of sending out printed cards.