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A Practical Guide to Assessing Your Digital Transformation Needs

This guide provides a practical method for assessing the best solutions to begin or advance a company’s digital transformation by applying the Smart Manufacturing Kaizen Level (SMKL) method established by Mitsubishi Electric. Specifically, this guide explains the SMKL method, illustrates how to use the SMKL method, walks through two typical customer examples and one assessing a transportation need, and directs readers to specialists that can help companies achieve their digitalization goals.

[Italian] A Practical Guide to Assessing Your Digital Transformation Needs

This guide, translated in Italian, provides a practical method for assessing the best solutions to begin or advance a company’s digital transformation by applying the Smart Manufacturing Kaizen Level (SMKL) method established by Mitsubishi Electric. Specifically, this guide explains the SMKL method, illustrates how to use the SMKL method, walks through two typical customer examples and one assessing a transportation need, and directs readers to specialists that can help companies achieve their digitalization goals.

Fault Detection and Diagnostics eBook

Running buildings is getting tougher as costs rise, systems age, and ESG expectations grow. This guide explains how Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) helps cut waste, improve comfort, and streamline operations across your portfolio. Learn how FDD works, where it delivers ROI, and how to turn building data into actionable results.

Energy Smart Buildings Readiness Guide

The Energy Smart Buildings Readiness Guide provides valuable information on how to make and operate a smart building. This guide explains what is meant by smart building readiness. It also explains networking, open protocols, interoperability, documentation, and key performance indicators for smart building readiness.

GENESIS64 FDA 21CFR11 Capabilities

This paper provides useful info on features of several GENESIS64™ components that may be useful to companies wishing to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

High Performance HMI Guide

This whitepaper explains what a high performance HMI is, the drivers for establishing industry standards, and how these HMIs deliver the next level of user experience and operational efficiency.

Highly Secure HMI SCADA and Automation Systems

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' products have a history of installation in extremely critical and secure applications. These applications require our products to be designed for, and tested to, rigid requirements. GENESIS uses features such as encryption, certificate authentication, user and system encrypted passwords, and obfuscation to provide the highest level of security demanded of today’s systems without sacrificing system flexibility so all system-to-system and system-to-client interface parameters can be adjusted to work within a customer’s secure infrastructure. This document presents an overview of the many features and qualities of our applications that make these a good fit for a secure project.

Advanced 3D HMI SCADA Visualization

This whitepaper presents an overview of a powerful approach to visualization of manufacturing that greatly reduces the learning curve for developing HMI applications.

Air Quality Monitoring Solution with ICONICS and Sysinno

As part of ICONICS’ commitment to the wellbeing of our customers, we have partnered with Sysinno to create an air quality monitoring solution that will be described in detail in this article to serve as a blueprint for your air quality monitoring needs.

ARC: Deploying 64-bit HMI SCADA

Manufacturers are developing business cases that demonstrate how 64-bit HMI/SCADA software visualization can be easily adapted to the operator's needs while incorporating the manufacturing requirements for optimal operation.

ARC: ICONICS Software Solutions Can Help Oil & Gas Businesses Meet Today’s Challenges

To meet today's challenges, owner-operators in the upstream oil & gas industry need to be able to provide employees at all levels of the organization with effective data visualization, appropriate analytics, and other real-time decision support tools.

ARC: Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions’ New Industrial Mobile HMI Apps: Any Glass, Anywhere

New mobile HMI applications are beginning to gain traction in the industrial world. ICONICS' MobileHMI™ demonstrates many of the features and capabilities that will drive increasing user acceptance of these types of industrial apps.

ARC: Software Tool Helps Manufacturers Manage Energy as a Product Cost

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions has combined new energy analytics software with its existing HMI software platform and connectivity options to create a solution for energy management, targeting discrete manufacturing industries, process industries, and buildings.

ARC: Water and Wastewater Utilities Optimized as Single Operational Systems

Many water and wastewater utilities continue to strive for improved efficiency, productivity, and the capability to meet newly specified sustainability goals for their operations, all while maintaining critical water quality and effluent requirements.

Augmented Reality and Wearable Devices

As mobile devices have become ubiquitous in industry and society, hardware and software vendors have begun creating new applications for this technology, including wearable devices and augmented reality. Both of these fit well into Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions’ product ecosystem, which already provides mobile-friendly solutions with its MobileHMI apps, touch input methods, and location services. These scenarios demonstrate how users will achieve better results and improved ROI.

BACnet Advanced Workstation PICS

GENESIS64™'s Platform Services provides the ability to monitor and control BACnet devices over a BACnet/IP network, or through a BACnet router to any BACnet device.

Best Practices in Manufacturing Operations

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." The new research presented in 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

Combining IoTWorX and Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge

Both IoTWorX and Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) have large sets of functions that can be programmed. This white paper illustrates how to combine two applications, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' IoTWorX and Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics, on IoT Edge to create the possibility of very powerful solutions, beyond the capabilities of any one application.

Connecting a Delta VFD to Microsoft Azure using IoTWorX

Remotely monitoring and managing buildings has many benefits, from reducing operational costs to improving the experience of the tenants in the building. It is not only valuable, but in many cases essential, for example when the premises are distant and there are no local resources to address problems or optimize configurations. This whitepaper describes one example of how to connect a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) in a building to the Microsoft Azure cloud, and control it, using IoTWorX and GENESIS64.

Connecting FLIR thermal camera to Microsoft Azure

This whitepaper details an example of how to connect a thermal camera to a cloud-based monitoring system using IoTWorX and Microsoft Azure. The example here involves monitoring temperature readings and alerts from a thermal camera installed in a remote location. Learn how with this step-by-step guide.

Creating a Virtual Machine with a Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions Offer on the Azure Marketplace

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions (MEIDS) products can be easily hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform by creating a virtual machine using the MEIDS published Virtual Machine offering for your desired product version from the Azure Marketplace. The virtual machine offers by MEIDS on the Azure Marketplace contain the complete installation of GENESIS64™, Hyper Historian™, IoTWorX™ and AnalytiX® Suite, and are available starting from version 10.96 with the latest Critical Fixes Rollup.

Cyber Security Threats eBook

This whitepaper explains what you want and need in a secure system. Like all software and hardware, HMI/SCADA and industrial control hardware are a potential target. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are uniquely high-value targets as they are responsible for critical infrastructure. This paper will explain how to exactly distinguish one attack from another and what countermeasures you can leverage to protect yourself from each type of cyber-attack.

Fault Tolerance Redundancy

This document contains information on the features of several ICONICS products and third-party products that may be of use to companies wishing to apply fault tolerance and redundancy to their GENESIS32™ or BizViz™ system. An overview of HMI redundancy schemes and a summary on how they can be applied to the GENESIS32 and BizViz product families is presented. The intended audience includes engineers working on implementing fault tolerant solutions through redundancy, sales and marketing personnel desiring to gain an understanding of the product features supporting redundancy, and end-users looking for information on using GENESIS32 and BizViz in redundant configurations.

GENESIS Suite Section 508 Compliance and VPAT V1

This document helps towards choosing software to meet accessibility standards and produce accessible content. Compliance information is provided for most Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions products, in addition to a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) that details all the regulations of the U.S. Section 508 accessibility standard.

Hyper Historian™ Performance

Hyper Historian™ provides a High Speed, Reliable, Robust, Advanced Big Data Plant Historian for Any Application.

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions Sustainability Solutions Brief

This paper provides an overview of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions energy management and sustainability solutions that help customers reduce energy costs, cut consumption, curtail carbon emissions and significantly streamline facilities maintenance.

Improve Security of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions Virtual Machine from Azure Marketplace

With the availability of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions’ virtual machine offers on the Azure Marketplace, it is now incredibly easy and quick to create a Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions environment on Microsoft Azure. However, for applications that require an elevated security posture, this whitepaper outlines the recommended steps to take, post-deployment, to improve the security posture of the GENESIS environment.

Installing IoTWorX on IoT Edge

In this whitepaper, we show how to install IoTWorX on Azure IoT Edge, deployed and managed from our Azure cloud, resulting in reduced deployment and management efforts, and increased security.

Installing IoTWorX on IoT Edge on Windows using EFLOW

In this whitepaper, we show how to install IoTWorX on Microsoft’s IoT Edge, using Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) and managed using Microsoft Update. By installing IoTWorX on a Windows computer and analyzing device data locally, users can react to events quickly, and operate offline.

Integrating Cognian's Syncromesh IoT Network with GENESIS

The Internet of Things (IoT) is augmenting our understanding of the world around us by connecting the physical aspects of our environment with the digital platforms that simplify our lives. To realize the transformative power of IoT, a key infrastructure to have is a communication network that spans the environment, allowing easy integration of IoT sensors that communicate wirelessly. Australian patented Syncromesh is a wireless canopy device that turns every building into a smart building by enabling remote and autonomous control over smart building capabilities such as access, occupant capacity, heating/cooling, air quality, and lighting control. The integration of Syncromesh with Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' GENESIS combines the best of IoT connectivity with an enterprise grade monitoring and analysis platform, creating a robust and open IoT solution stack, ready to realize your IoT vision.

Internet of Things – MQTT Publishing Format for Consumption by GENESIS64

This whitepaper describes the JSON message schema configuration in ICONICS Suite to connect to any MQTT enabled sensor or other IoT devices.

IoTWorX™ Whitepaper

This paper discusses some opportunities that the Internet of Things brings to the process, factory and building automation industries in general. Additionally, it describes the steps that Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions is taking to leverage this new technology to integrate IoT into one of the world’s most advanced HMI/SCADA, Building Automation, Energy Management and Manufacturing Intelligence packages, along with the benefits that can be achieved. This paper also discusses IoTWorX, a complete IoT Automation Software Solution, that provides “off the shelf” scalable software applications that enable monitoring, visualization of data, real-time analytics and much more.

KPI OEE and Downtime Analytics

This document defines and illustrates the collection and use of metric data in determining process efficiency and the reasons for the loss of time or process and specifically explains the GENESIS Downtime Analytics solution and the modules that comprise it. An efficient, flexible methodology using BizViz™ and GENESIS™ software suites is described. The GENESIS and BizViz products enable plants to significantly improve efficiencies by capturing detailed events, faults, and production information from equipment and operators.

Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions

This document contains information about the features of several Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions products and third-party products that may be of use to companies wishing to apply manufacturing intelligence solutions. Manufacturers recognize that each process provides a vital link to real-time data for the enterprise as a whole, which is especially critical with the move towards Real-time Performance Management (RPM) that uses dynamic performance targets to drive an enterprise to its optimum potential and competitive advantage.

Measuring Occupancy with Delta Controls O3 Sense, Azure IoT, and Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions

Monitoring the occupancy of spaces in commercial buildings and spaces has many benefits, especially for security, safety, and energy conservation. Accurate occupancy information is critical in a smart building solution. In this whitepaper, we describe an occupancy sensing solution that leverages Delta Controls’ unique multi sensor device connected to a Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions IoTWorX gateway, publishing real-time environment data to the Microsoft Azure cloud as part of a cloud based smart building environment monitoring solution.

Monitoring Building Air Quality

Monitoring the quality of the air inside or outside of buildings, and in particular the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulates (PM), is important for understanding the environment and for enabling building owners to provide a healthier place for people to live and work. Clearly, monitoring the air quality in and around the buildings is extremely important to understand what measures need to be taken to protect the health of the people living and working in them. This article describes an example of a simple data collection and visualization workflow, ultimately storing the data in a cloud database that can be queried by any 3rd party application.

Monitoring Building Power Consumption

Monitoring power consumption of buildings or equipment is an important component in understanding and therefore reducing operational costs and maintenance costs, and increasing sustainability. The workflow detailed in this whitepaper demonstrates one way of monitoring power consumption.

OPC UA Defined and How It Impacts Automation

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 GENESIS 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. The intended audience includes Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives, Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel and end users in manufacturing, public sector systems and facilities management.

OPC UA Defined and How it Impacts Oil & Gas

This paper defines the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) communications technology as it relates to applications within the oil and gas industry and its operations.

Real Time Solutions for Sustainable Energy and Facility Management

Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' Sustainability Software Solutions include the native capability to integrate across the enterprise to access and merge real-time info on energy and resource consumption, carbon emissions and causes of excessive consumption.

Recipe Management System

This paper outlines Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' Recipe Management System by providing examples that illustrate the capabilities of this tool in IGENESIS™, which can be used to manage and control real-time processes.

Renewable Energy Solutions Brief

The driving forces for the development of renewable energy consist of concerns for energy security, a global aversion to continued environmental degradation and possible climate change.

SNMP Quick Start and Introduction

This paper introduces basic info on the SNMP communications protocol, as well as how to create a display in GraphWorX™ that shows useful SNMP information coming from the network.

Strategies for Operational Excellence

This document summarizes recommended approaches for applying GENESIS software technology in automated operational environments that seek continuous improvement to approach a state of “Operational Excellence”. Discussed are methods to increase coordination of business systems with real-time controllers, to create unified views of machine-controlled and business applications and to better integrate intelligent systems to manage operational incidents.

Symphony of Software Saves Millions (Microsoft 88 Acres Story)

This document explains how a small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft applied an “Internet of Things meets Big Data” approach to invent a data-driven software solution based upon Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions COTS software. This solution is slashing the cost of operating the campus’ 125 buildings saving Microsoft millions of dollars. The application has been so successful that the company and its partners are now helping building managers across the world deploy the same solution. And with commercial buildings consuming an estimated 30-40 percent of the world’s total energy, the potential is huge.

Unified Data Manager Configuration Guide

This paper guides users through the capabilities of the Unified Data Manager (UDM), describing configurations that can be easily reproduced by first time users who have a basic understanding of OPC.

Using IoTWorX as a Gateway in Microsoft Azure Deployments

Thank you for your interest in Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions! Learn about the steps to using IoTWorX as a gateway in Microsoft Azure Deployments in this whitepaper.

Washington Athletic Club Cover Story

This reprint from Touch magazine provides an overview of Microsoft customer, Washington Athletic Club, and their installation of GENESIS software to monitor energy usage and regulate consumption in real time.

Writing to Devices from Microsoft Azure Using IoTWorX

This whitepaper describes how to set up IoTWorX to write values to devices such as setpoints, sensors, actuators, and more. The steps described are relatively simple – you create an application that connects to the Azure IoT Hub and sends the new values to the IoTWorX gateway device. Learn more by downloading today.