- New Proficy Industrial Gateway Server (IGS)
GE's Proficy Industrial Gateway Server (IGS) 7.5 provides robust and efficient connectivity with the latest OPC DA standards to enable fast, reliable communications with thousands of mixed vendor devices and instruments.
Featuring more than 100 protocols for GE's Proficy HMI/SCADA, MES, EMI and Workflow software—as well as third-party solutions—the included IGS 7.5 drivers deliver comprehensive connectivity to your devices for control, data acquisition, and visualization.
GE and FANUC has announced that the two companies after 23 years have completed an agreement to dissolve their joint venture.
The final agreement was signed on Dec. 11, 2009, and the businesses previous conducted under the joint venture will now operate independently with immediate effect as GE Intelligent Platforms and FANUC LTD.
GE retains the Software and Services, Embedded Systems and Control Systems businesses globally, as well as services for the Americas CNC portfolio. These businesses are part of GE Intelligent Platforms.
FANUC retains the global CNC businesses.
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- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Launches Advanced Analytics Software Solutions
Charlottesville, VA, September 1, 2009 GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced advanced analytics solutions for its software portfolio that are designed to maximize the information that already exists in production operations, extract knowledge from that information and identify the opportunities to solve potential production issues before they impact the process. The introductions of
Proficy® Troubleshooter and
Proficy Cause+, the updated release of
Proficy Historian version 3.5, and the market leadership position of Proficy’s HMI/SCADA products combine to provide companies with unprecedented intelligence they can use to enhance process performance.
This powerful combination of solutions enables:
- better understanding of the causes of variation and problems in the process as well as the real-time impact of the process on production assets
- learning the relationships between disconnected data, extracting knowledge and building business cases with benefit estimations
- preventing unnecessary conventional ‘alarm bursts’ with more intelligent alarms that work in multivariate space, indicating causes of problems and providing corrective actions
- expert knowledge capture for making modelling and expert system technology available to all users.
- KPSM Solutions welcomes Mika Keskitalo to it's team in Australia
Mika (pronounced meeka) joins in Nov 09 as our new Solutions Manager.
Mika began his career in 1990 as a software engineering graduate developing, implementing and supporting MRP systems for manufacturers in Scandinavia.
Since 1995 he has worked internationally as well as Australia wide predominantly with managing systems implementation and development projects and system life cycle management particularly in the fields of
Service and Asset Maintenance Management.
- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Proficy® HMI/SCADA - iFIX WebSpace Providing “Real-Time Data For Everyone”
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms today announced Proficy® HMI/SCADA – iFIX WebSpace, a new full-featured web client for the company’s iFIX visualization solution that enables informed decisions from anywhere, anytime -- "real-time-data-for-everyone." iFIX WebSpace enables full control and visualization capabilities over a company’s intranet or Internet system without the need to change or alter the iFIX application. iFIX screens and functionality are delivered seamlessly into a web browser requiring no additional development effort and can be set up within minutes.
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