Maintworld Magazine 4/2021

PARTNER ARTICLE
Text and images: ICONICS, SHUTTERSTOCK
ICONICS, World Leading Automation
Software Provider & Trusted Partner in Digital
Transformation, to Exhibit and Present at SPS
The Smart Production Solutions (SPS) Trade Show will happen in Nuremberg, Germany
on November 23 – 25. And as a world leading automation software provider
and trusted partner in digital transformation, ICONICS will exhibit and present at SPS.
This will be our first major international in-person trade show since COVID, and we
are thrilled at the opportunity to see our customers face-to-face again and to help
them solve their operational challenges and meet their corporate sustainability goals.
THE SPS trade show aims at “bringing automation to life” and
“covers the entire spectrum of smart and digital automation”
technology topics. It is also an excellent chance to exchange and
discuss ideas on how to address operational and energy challenges
your company may be facing and spark the imagination for
connected factories, connected infrastructures, and a connected
front on sustainability initiatives.
ICONICS develops software to automate the monitoring and
management of manufacturing and industrial processes. We do
this to help companies reduce their operating costs, be more
efficient, detect faults, improve overall equipment effectiveness,
reduce response times, and so on. The common thread across all
these applications is to focus on specific, measurable factors, and
then connect to the devices, equipment, and environments to
collect the telemetry data. Once all of the data sources are connected,
the trick is to display it in ways that are meaningful to
operators, managers, engineers, and executives. It doesn’t matter
what industry you are in or what type of community you belong to;
we have the tools to display the data to give you real-time information
and real-time wisdom. With this information, you can then
diagnose what’s wrong, what’s happened, what’s inefficient, and
then what corrective measures to take.
The software at work in each of those cases is known
as the ICONICS Suite, and it is a combination of four
elements: GENESIS64, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX®, and
IoTWorX. There is a unique and singular platform service
connecting all of those elements together; not just for the
industry today in its current applications, but also for the
industry as it looks forward to future-proofing the elements
of its systems. And ICONICS Suite is a unified platform
that is competitive, flexible, scalable, and modular, as well
as customizable and extensible. In essence, ICONICS is the
“Switzerland of Automation” with the ability to connect to
virtually any equipment or device.
A key to realizing success in these automation projects
is to start with one specific challenge and then scale up and
out. Start economically and then use that as a baseline to
solve whatever problem you encounter next. And as you
probably know, there is always something else to uncover
once you get started.
Fortunately for the attendees, besides exhibiting at SPS,
ICONICS will also present. Business Development Manager
Sebastian Hohenhoff from our German team will talk on
Tuesday, 23 November from 14:40 to 15:00 about “How
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