September 06 newsletter  

 

Dataworks newsletter - 23rd edition

Welcome to the 23rd edition of our newsletter. In this issue: Dataworks secures contract with major global beverages manufacturer , new MES implementation to start near Boston, Dataworks awarded research funding by Enterprise Ireland, ICONICS celebrates 20 years in business and releases V9 of their award-winning suites Genesis & BizViz and finally - a date not to be missed - the 15th of November 2006, Dataworks will host its 'Realising Operational Excellence' seminar in Waterford.

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A major global beverages manufacturer has recently selected Dataworks as their software development partner of choice to assist them in the development and support of their in-house MES applications.

Following a trial period of 3 weeks on-site in the North-West of Ireland, Dataworks will bring its MES expertise to complete and assist the company's internal team in developing a series of MES applications. The new applications developed in C#.NET will provide better integration between shop-floor applications and the business layer and support the company's on-going operational excellence innitiatives. The project will be carried out both on-site (~30% of the time) and off-site (~70%).

 
Dataworks 2006 Seminar:
Realising Operational Excellence
November 15th 2006 - Waterford

Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet with the Dataworks staff, catch-up with your peers in your industry and learn all about about the new technologies that will help you realise operational excellence.
 
 


October will see the start of a new implementation of a bespoke MES system in the Life Sciences industry. After successful roll-outs for a leading global medical devices manufacturer in Ireland, Scotland, France, Florida and NY State; their Boston Plant have now selected the system as the way forward towards achieving operational excellence.

The latest installation in Florida has received great praise internally, having extensively contributed to yield rates improvements of more than 130 percent.


Dataworks was recently awarded funding support from Enterprise Ireland, the Irish state development agency focused on transforming Irish industry whose mission is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.

Dataworks will be carrying out research in association with the help of Enterprise Ireland over a 3 month period to determine the key business drivers in the Life Science industry behind Shop Floor Data Collection, Visualisation and Automation. Particular focus being placed on the Engineering and IT road maps for the use of automation in the areas of compliance, LEAN initiatives and cost reduction programs.

In this capacity, some of our readers
have been contacted already whilst more will be contacted over the coming weeks to setup fact-finding meetings. These meetings are an essential part of our research programme and the feedback to-date has been very good as both parties learn a lot from each-other's experiences in the process. We would like to thank everyone who have already participated in our fact-finding missions and would like to thank new contacts in advance for your precious input.
 


Special Feature: ICONICS is celebrating its 20th anniversary

ICONICS, celebrating 20 years of providing Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, today announced the release of GENESIS32™ Version 9 & BizViz™ Version 9 suite of manufacturing intelligence software products.

GENESIS32 is a complete suite of powerful HMI/SCADA applications providing real-time visualization, alarm management and plant historian functionality for industrial automation systems.

BizViz provides real-time manufacturing intelligence from the production floor to the boardroom, turning data into your competitive advantage.

Version 9 Releases:

GENESIS32 V9 is centered on integrating information easily and reliably from the most popular communication infrastructures. Today's core sources of information affecting manufacturing include IT infrastructures monitored by SNMP, the plant floor infrastructure communicating OPC, and enterprise infrastructures through real-time, intelligent data mining. The GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA software suite incorporates these infrastructures to provide the most flexible connectivity and scalability for our users. GENESIS32 V9 also incorporates powerful data-mining and integration technology that enables viewing and reporting of real-time or enterprise data sources, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, plant historians, and OPC real-time data.

"GENESIS32 Version 9.0 integrates several new capabilities and products-such as DataWorX32™ OPC Tunneling, OPC Data Redundancy, a Unified Data Manager and ScheduleWorX™ - that tie information for building control and manufacturing into a common, Web-enabled dashboard, " states Russ Agrusa , President and CEO of ICONICS. "GENESIS32 Version 9.0's new data-mining technology allows automation and IT professionals to integrate real-time manufacturing and business information into a common, Web-enabled visualization dashboard."

"The market is demanding solutions that provide a real-time visualization connection to databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MSDE, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access, as well as the integration of real-time manufacturing and business visualization," says Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. " ICONICS' newest HMI/SCADA visualization product incorporates several unique capabilities that address this market demand."

The core of ICONICS' new BizViz suite of applications includes its new data-mining and Web portal technologies. BizViz, which is written from the ground up to take advantage of Microsoft .NET 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Services, allows for collaboration of plant and business information. ICONICS' BizViz suite bridges virtually any industrial or corporate database and integrates information from different data sources, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, OPC UA and SNMP. The BizViz suite contains five applications: ReportWorX™ , Alarm Analytics™ , BridgeWorX™ , PortalWorX™ , and MobileHMI™ .

The newest BizViz product, Alarm Analytics, enables plant personnel to visualize, analyze, and manage alarm information in accordance with industry best practices. The push for operational excellence in the manufacturing industry is driving the need for more effective alarm analytics. Proper analysis of alarms and events in a manufacturing plant can reveal significant opportunities for improving current operations and mitigating abnormal situations

"BizViz is a shrink-wrapped, out-of-the-box product designed from the ground up on Microsoft .NET 2.0 technologies and that incorporates Microsoft SharePoint Portal Services," states Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "BizViz incorporates revolutionary Data-Mining and Integration technology, which allows the data-bridging, viewing and reporting of any real-time or enterprise data source, including Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, plant historians, OPC real-time data and more. BizViz is an ideal solution that will be showcased at events for Microsoft's Manufacturing Peak Performance Initiative."

Read more about the new features at: http://www.iconics.com/news/press_release_main.asp

 

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