Houston, TX, ISA ‘04 – October 5, 2004 — ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, today announced that John Pettit has joined ICONICS in the position of Vice President of Business Development. John has extensive management and sales experience in the industrial automation industry. In this role John will be directly responsible for ICONICS' OEM and strategic sales channels, reporting directly to Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. John has many years of experience managing strategic accounts at Applied Process Technologies and K-tron International.
After earning a BS in Electrical Engineering from Temple University, John held several positions within K-tron International, including Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Most recently John was president of Applied Process Technologies, a provider of consulting, design and engineering services. In John’s 27-year career he has focused on system integration, selling, consulting and P&L operations within the industrial automation industry. "John brings many new ideas, contacts, and experience to the business development efforts at ICONICS. He will help ICONICS share and accelerate our growth," states Russ Agrusa.
"We are extremely delighted to have John on the ICONICS team." ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 18 years, and has successfully deployed more than 125,000 solutions worldwide. For more information, please contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600 or info@iconics, or visit the ICONICS Web site at www.iconics.com .
About ICONICS
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, 95, 98, Millennium, and 2000, and Windows NT®. 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™, and runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. 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 50 countries, and has more than 125,000 product installations worldwide.
For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com .