- Proficy Trouble Shooter and Cause+ version 5.0 released.
New and improved feature include amongst other; A new Data Preparation engine, New Action Object Server, Matlab extension to allow Matlab code or DLLS.
- Proficy Portal v3.5 now available
The release adds some key functionality to the product including; Performance improvements and 64bit support, enhanzed display variable usage, parameterized data sources and renaming of pens to allow for user intuitive variables in charts and expressions.
- Proficy iHistorian 4.0 released
Whats new?
Major Scalability & Performance Enhancements
Proficy Historian scales to significant new levels, allowing customers to leverage data across their operations, both in plants or across global enterprises. By moving to a 64-bit platform, Historian 4.0 takes full advantage of all the memory in your 64-bit Windows operating system, boosting overall performance, security, and responsiveness. Across-board gains have been made in volume of information that can be collected per server, data throughput, and connectivity.
Improved Compatibility & Integration
Proficy Historian empowers administrators to reduce operating costs, with flexibility & agility to support dynamically changing business conditions. Key enhancements include support for latest Microsoft technologies (Windows 7, Server 2008, IE8), embedded applications support via Windows XPe, enhanced APIs for systems integration, and full backward compatibility with 32-bit operating systems.
Ease of Use and Reduced Overall Cost of Ownership
Proficy Historian empowers administrators to reduce operating costs, with flexibility & agility to support dynamically changing business conditions. Features such as enhanced archive management, support for modern, in-line backup technologies, tag renaming and overall improvements in system monitoring and management help our customers rapidly realize business benefit and sustain their advantage in a cost-efficient manner.
- iFIX 5.1 has been released
Whats new?
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Historical Data Visualization - iFIX 5.1 and Proficy Historian v3.5 team up to provide you easy access and visualization of your historical data. With iFIX 5.1 you can create pictures that include animations or charts which display the historical data driving instant situational analysis and more flexibility in your applications.
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New Failover Enhancements - iFIX 5.1 provides further enhancements to it's already proven and robust failover solution. New SCADA failover features for iFIX 5.1 include a remote maintenance mode which allows you to pause/Reset synchronization, monitor health of failover SCADA servers and auto tuning synchronization with the backup system.
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New Chart & Enhancements - An all new XY Chart that displays the relationship between two or more types of data enabling you to analyze your data and troubelshoot faster. In addition we've added Auto Adjust Interval for all trends using historical data which causes the intervals to automatically adjust based on the duration and number of points defined resulting in an evenly spaced data display.
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Global Time Control for Run Mode Viewing - The Global Time Control helps you to analyze multiple sets of data as represented in the pictures you created in run mode. It does so by time-synchronizing all open pictures, so that you can view what is happening in each of the pictures during the same time period. This feature makes it easier to visualize how the system is working as a whole and the impact of components on each other.
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iFIX 5.1 technology support
Microsoft Windows 2008 (32bit) Incl. Term Services
Proficy Historian v3.5
Existing support for Microsoft® Vista SP1, SQL 2005, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 (32bit) and Windows Server 2003
- 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.