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		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">Win7CsStudy</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Microsoft Windows 7 Case Study</title><description><![CDATA[A Microsoft publication on Windows 7 for Industrial Automation and manufacturing. Topics include light up features and how organizations are adopting Windows 7.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/support/whitepapers.asp</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:45:00 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">LrgstIndpWhitepaper</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>ICONICS is Largest Global Independent Supplier of HMI/SCADA Solutions</title><description><![CDATA[ICONICS, a global provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software based on Microsoft Windows operating systems, achieved the largest global market share of any independent HMI/SCADA supplier, according to the latest ARC Advisory Group HMI Software Worldwide Outlook Report.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/support/whitepapers.asp</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:25:00 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">Adv3dWhitepaper</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>ICONICS Receives Windows 7 Certification, Well Positioned For Pent-Up Demand</title><description><![CDATA[ICONICS is certified for Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. That will drive many end users and OEMs to not only migrate to Windows 7 from Windows Vista, but also those who held out on migrating to Vista and are still using Microsoft Windows XP.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/support/whitepapers.asp</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:22:00 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">Adv3dWhitepaper</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Advanced 3D Visualization for Manufacturing and Facility Controls</title><description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s manufacturing and building operations are faced with the need to reduce cost and be more competitive with the fewest of resources. Connectivity to different infrastructures for data gathering and the need to analyze and visualize data in real time is ever more important in today’s economic environment. Recently, visualization systems have taken a giant step forward incorporating advanced hardware accelerated 3D graphics into standard off-the commercial product. As a result, providing compelling 3D graphics applications and having access to plant data is the key to having a competitive advantage. This paper presents a whole new powerful approach to visualization of manufacturing that greatly reduces the learning curve for developing Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/support/whitepapers.asp</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2008 13:22:25 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">033A50E4-8FED-4B07-93B4-AFC39F3C1F2C</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Best Practices in Manufacturing Drive the Adoption of Windows Vista</title><description><![CDATA[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. This whitepaper will show how the use of industrial automation software and a Microsoft platform, across many of the process industries, can provide the basis for this data delivery and the fostering of communication and collaboration across the organization. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Manufacturing Executives, IT Professionals, Plant Managers, Process Engineers, or anyone looking to gain a competitive advantage for their operations by adopting Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/support/whitepapers.asp</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:02:56 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">DEBDA321-4506-4913-B61E-FC2FF8E84BAA</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Hyper Historian Performance</title><description><![CDATA[This document contains information on performance tests and the results of those performance tests that were run on ICONICS Hyper Historian V10.01. It may be of use to companies who are considering the purchase of the Hyper Historian. These benchmarks can be used to help determine which version of the Hyper Historian is needed for a particular application and what the most appropriate hardware for hosting the Hyper Historian may be. The performance tests include several sample test scenarios. The Hyper Historian CPU usage and Virtual Memory usage are measured for each test scenario. The control variables for the test cases include: 
<UL>
<LI>The number of tags being logged</LI>
<LI>The data types of the tags being logged</LI>
<LI>The speed/rate at which the tag values change</LI></UL><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel, anyone looking to use data historians/Hyper Historian and BizViz in real-time manufacturing environments.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:00:34 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">A74C7232-2385-49FB-9373-FAFE16B87654</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>OPC-UA Defined and How It Impacts Automation</title><description><![CDATA[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 environment for visibility and control across business and operating systems. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel and end users in manufacturing, public sector systems and facilities management.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:59:55 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">9F71A8BE-388F-4DEB-B6EF-241ED77A7CA0</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Strategies for Operational Excellence</title><description><![CDATA[Companies across the world face a variety of business problems including the integration of disparate systems and vendors' proprietary system formats, physical/data security concerns, global competition, IT bottlenecks, and constantly changing corporate priorities. Operational Excellence helps to alleviate these concerns and meet business-driven goals such as continuous improvement, unified visualization of data, real-time performance, flexibility/adaptability and plant floor connectivity. Implementing an Operational Excellence strategy helps lead to better collaboration from plant floor to the executive level and provides empowerment throughout the organization. <BR><BR>This whitepaper contains information on ICONICS' GENESIS32 Automation Suite and BizViz Manufacturing Intelligence Software Suite and their application towards achieving Operational Excellence. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel, anyone looking to apply Operational Excellence within their company and using GENESIS32 and BizViz in real-time manufacturing environments.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:59:35 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">D599E812-31AB-448C-A376-95B37B500A2E</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions</title><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing Intelligence provides a common basis for using manufacturing information from the plant floor to enterprise systems and business partners. Supporting the enterprise's information and visualization requirements goes beyond HMI software and places new demands on manufacturing management systems. <BR><BR>This whitepaper, authored by Craig Resnick of ARC Advisory Group, contains information on several ICONICS' and third-party solutions. An overview of ICONICS BizViz and other manufacturing intelligence suites is presented. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel ]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:59:10 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">96053A2E-F785-4998-84FF-40FA01BEF2C5</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>KPI, OEE and Downtime Analytics</title><description><![CDATA[Plant engineers and managers need to make informed decisions and implement best practices and may need to have some of the following questions answered: 
<UL>
<LI>Which machines need to be serviced, replaced, or decommissioned?</LI>
<LI>Have my production goals been achieved? Am I on target to achieve them?</LI>
<LI>Were the machine and station cycle times within design specifications?</LI>
<LI>Are certain production cells or stations bypassed during production?</LI>
<LI>What is the total performance and total availability?</LI></UL>Plant and operations personnel can make informed decisions using advanced downtime reporting capabilities. This white paper explains the ICONICS Downtime Analytics solution and the modules that comprise it. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel ]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:58:43 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">E36619CD-C4F7-4706-9B53-6350B92E3078</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>DataWorX32 - OPC Tunneling</title><description><![CDATA[OPC Communications has become the de facto standard for data exchange between industrial automation applications. ICONICS solutions allow OPC communications to be "tunneled" within other communications layers or technologies. This has proven to be a very effective approach that both eliminates the need for DCOM, and provides for a more open communications system, and one that evolves and improves along with OPC standards. <BR><BR>This whitepaper contains information on ICONICS solutions utilizing OPC Tunneling, such as DataWorX32, as well as an overview of the OPC Tunneling concept in general. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Engineers working on implementing OPC Communications over WANs, anyone desiring a better understanding of OPC Tunneling. ]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:58:18 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">52BFDC63-B3BC-4041-B127-B05783D39C23</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>DataWorX32 - Software Redundancy</title><description><![CDATA[DataWorX32 Professional provides support for redundant IO Servers (OPC DA), redundant Alarm Servers (AlarmWorX32 AE), redundant loggers, and redundant Historical Replay Servers. Configuring redundancy is easy, requiring only the entry of the node name (or address) of the backup node. GENESIS32's built-in MonitorWorX function continuously monitors the health of the primary and secondary servers of each redundant server pair. Built-in process point tags provide status of the redundant pairs and provide the ability to control failovers via logic. <BR><BR>This whitepaper contains information on DataWorX32 redundancy and how it can be applied to various redundancy schemes. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B>Engineers working on implementing fault tolerant solutions through redundancy, anyone desiring a better understanding of OPC redundancy.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:57:50 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">213B7EA3-CEAB-4F02-BD16-7DCA965D4EEC</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>SNMP Overview</title><description><![CDATA[Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows devices to expose useful information to other devices. Types of information can range from the CPU fan speed of a computer to the routing table of the router. Almost every network device answers to SNMP requests. SNMP gives Network Managers access to information from nearly every device connected to a network. <BR><BR>This whitepaper contains information meant to familiarize users with SNMP technology and user training. In addition to basic SNMP Protocol, it also provides assistance with creating a GraphWorX32 display that shows useful SNMP information carried on the network. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> System Integrators, IT professionals, plant engineers, or anyone desiring to have a better understanding and expand their knowledge of SNMP connectivity. <BR>]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:57:06 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">AE4560FE-EC3B-48CB-A62F-84C6D52FE35B</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Overview</title><description><![CDATA[FDA 21 CFR Part 11 covers the proper handling of recording FDA-regulated information electronically and applying "electronic signatures," such that they are considered by the FDA to be "equivalent" to that of handwritten signatures and documents. GENESIS32 contains several components that may be useful to companies wishing to comply with this regulation. <BR><BR>This whitepaper covers various sections within FDA 21 CFR Part 11 as well as relevant features within the GENESIS32 suite. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Engineers working on implementing FDA 21 CFR 11 solutions, anyone desiring a better understanding of this regulation, End-users seeking information on industrial automation software solutions within FDA-regulated environments.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:56:23 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">12B8A4E4-E61F-4381-85CE-4F602CD74525</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>SAP BAPI Connector</title><description><![CDATA[Plant engineers and managers need to make informed decisions and implement best practices. Many are looking for answers to questions such as “Which machines need to be serviced, replaced, or decommissioned?”, “Have my production goals been achieved and am I on target to achieve them?” or “What is the total performance and total availability?” Plant and operations personnel are able to make informed decisions using advanced downtime reporting capabilities. <BR><BR>This whitepaper uses Knowledge Point Indicators (KPIs), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Downtime to demonstrate the collection, analysis, and reporting of system data. ICONICS GENESIS32 and BizViz suites enable plants to significantly improve efficiencies by capturing detailed events, faults, and production information from equipment and operators for a variety of analytics with the ICONICS reporting, data management and visualization toolsets. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel, anyone desiring a better understanding of KPI, OEE or Downtime factors and analysis.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:51:58 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">DC8593D6-F3B3-43FF-9242-0E34592DC094</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>Fault Tolerance Redundancy</title><description><![CDATA[Reliability and uptime have become critically important because of the mission-critical functionality now concentrated in HMI/SCADA server applications. Improving the reliability and fault tolerance of applications that strictly monitor and view data can be done by simply adding a second or redundant PC workstation. Improving the reliability and fault tolerance for server applications requires strong initial planning. <BR><BR>This whitepaper contains information on several ICONICS and third-party products that may be useful for companies wishing to apply fault tolerance and redundancy to their GENESIS32 or BizViz system. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Engineers working on implementing fault tolerant solutions through redundancy, anyone desiring a better understanding of software features that support redundancy, End-users requiring information on using GENESIS32 and BizViz in redundant configurations.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:51:58 -0500</pubDate></item>
		<item><guid isPermaLink="false">5BCE830E-A8F9-48E7-A2F0-F125991E1A2A</guid><category>Whitepapers</category><title>MonitorWorX Quick Start</title><description><![CDATA[MonitorWorX is a new tool introduced in GENESIS32 V9. Its main purpose is to collect the runtime information from other modules and expose it, either via a GUI or as process points. <BR><BR><B>Intended Audience:</B> Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, SAP Specialists, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel, anyone desiring a better understanding of utilizing SAP in a real-time manufacturing environment.]]></description><link>http://www.iconics.com/whitepapers</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:51:58 -0500</pubDate></item></channel>
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