The manufacturing domain has come a long way in bringing automation to the industry with smart machines, applications, and devices. The industry is no longer new to the concept of Machine Intelligence (MI) however; many firms with labor-intensive and repetitive manufacturing operations still rely on manual approaches. Additionally, the proliferation of platforms and connected devices hoarding large volumes of data is adding on to the complexities of manufacturers that can be addressed with the help of relevant analytics. When it comes to real-time data and analytics for driving operational excellence, “Manufacturing intelligence is evolving,” reveals Russ Agrusa, President and CEO, ICONICS. Addressing the need to achieve operational excellence with interconnectivity, ICONICS is a firm that offers MI suite of solutions to empower production line supervisors, shop floor and supply chain managers, as well as division leads with accurate, real-time information from across disparate enterprise systems.

Founded in 1986, the Foxborough based company’s enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) solution provides visualization, real-time data, and information to employees on the factory floor, processes, and applications, and allows connectivity for increased streamlined business efficiency and improved customer experience. The company’s EMI product portfolio includes BizViz™—a solution that helps gain actionable intelligence for deriving business decisions with the aid of manufacturing data from the plant-floor. ICONICS BizViz™ gathers data from disparate sources and processes and translates them into visual summaries, including dashboards, reports, and graphics. Powered by Microsoft .NET technology, BizViz™ seamlessly connects to critical data sources throughout the enterprise for delivering operation information in real-time.

BizViz™ taps into the various operational areas, from planning to production, quality assurance, and more to address the needs of higher productivity, reduced production cost and improved decision-making. The company’s EMI solution offers a powerful reporting tool— ReportWorX™, delivering the capability to create reports using data integrated from any source within a system. These reports can then be made available to distributed users with BizViz PortalWorX™, allowing users to create and manage manufacturing and business portals, and visualization dashboards for real-time business information and optimization of KPIs.