ICONICS Announces Partnering Agreement With ISA Automation

Foxborough, MA - March 13, 2003

ISA Automation in Rouyn-Noranda, Canada, is a software tool development company that is focusing its products on HMI environments. Founded in 1998, ISA developed a software product called Only U. The Only U solution was designed in response to the fact that "user accountability" was a difficult issue to address in manufacturing plant floor operations. Conventional user names and passwords are often misused, written on scraps of paper near the operator input terminal for sharing between users, and have become unacceptable in critical applications where absolute user identification is required. Only U uses fingerprint identification technology that makes it possible to accurately and instantly identify a user within an application at the time of data entry, using a Biometric reading mouse.

In integrating the Only U solution with ICONICS' GraphWorX™32 OPC-based HMI visualization software, ICONICS and ISA Automation believe that they are pushing user accountability to a higher level. This technology also addresses the strict regulations imposed by the FDA, namely 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries, for electronic document control and electronic signatures on documents.

"We are excited to introduce this new capability with our HMI visualization products based on Biometric technology and feel that this is the ultimate answer to user identification," says ICONICS President and CEO Russ Agrusa. "By working closely with ISA Automation, we are able to leverage their investments in new Biometric technology software and computer mouse integration in order to create industry-leading products for the manufacturing and automation industry."

For more information, please contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600 or info@iconics.com, or visit the ICONICS Web site at www.iconics.com.

ICONICS Background Information

Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32™ Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS™ for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core™ framework. BizViz™ is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX® Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server®-based data logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.

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