GE Vernova is a global leader in automation and manufacturing IT software and solutions, offering users a wide range of reliable, secure and open products and solutions that comply with automation and manufacturing IT standards and are developed using state-of-the-art technologies.
Proficy iFIX
Proficy iFIX is a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software tool that includes all standard functionalities for process visualization, manual process control, data storage, display and alarm management.
Key features include:
- Reliability of operation
- High functionality and robustness
- Openness
- Scalability in architecture (from standalone nodes with a small number of IO signals in the processor base to large systems with over 1000 nodes in distributed server-client architectures)
- The ability to produce complex graphical displays
- Integration with MS Office components
- Connectivity to relational databases
- Protected data access, configurable at the individual IO point level
- Advanced alarming, configurable by individual IO points and areas
- Flexibility and support for technologies and standards such as OPC UA, HTML5, VBA, Terminal Server, SQL/ODBC, ActiveX, COM/DCOM, etc.
- Extended Audit Trail and electronic signatures, making it suitable for regulated (e.g. pharmaceutical and food) industries
Wide global usage, demonstrating the tool’s reliability and versatility.
Proficy WebSpace
Proficy WebSpace allows users easy access to process displays via web browsers, smartphones or tablets. It is a fully functional web client that extends and enhances existing HMI/SCADA systems, offering full process control and visualization over local intranets or the internet, without modifying the original iFIX application.
Proficy iFIX WebSpace provides:
- Access to SCADA data via multiple clients (web browsers, smartphones or tablets).
- Quick insights into SCADA systems from the field.
- Fully HMI/SCADA functionality in a web environment.
Proficy Operations Hub
Proficy Operations Hub is a centralized, web-based environment for aggregating, visualizing and contextualizing process data. With Proficy Operations Hub, departments across the organization can enhance operational efficiency and make better, faster decisions based on real-time or historical data, including data from SCADA systems, Process Historians, MES systems and more. The Operations Hub allows users to view, control, manage or perform analysis within standard web browsers, utilizing HTML5 standards and secure web application mechanisms.
Solution developers can leverage the powerful development tools within Operations Hub to quickly build web applications without the need for coding. Operations Hub integrates seamlessly with GE Vernova software solutions and other established Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) protocols, such as OPC UA, MQTT and RESTful services.
With Proficy Operations Hub, companies gain a critical tool for insights into the operational performance of their processes, as well as into the productivity and efficiency of various workflows. This is a key step towards digital transformation.
Proficy Historian
Proficy Historian is a dedicated process database that enables optimized and efficient collection, archiving and distribution of process data in real time. The server stores the data, monitors the system, records interventions and changes made to the archive and provides secure access to the data using domain or local users. Proficy Historian consists of four basic components:
- An archive of process data.
- Collectors that capture process data.
- A system administration component.
- Clients and technologies that allow archived data to be analyzed or queried directly from information systems.
Proficy Historian is used as a central repository for process data in automation systems or as the basis for Plant Intelligence Infrastructure systems, where “real-time” data is transformed into actionable information to enhance business decisions.
Proficy Dream Report
Proficy Dream Report is a report creation, generation and automatic sending tool that allows users to easily create reports without the need for programming knowledge, making it suitable for various user profiles.
Reports can be generated as PDF or MS Excel files, either automatically on a set schedule (e.g. daily, weekly) or on demand (manually or via a script). Reports can also be automatically printed or sent to selected email addresses.
Users can create report templates to simplify and speed up the report production process. Reports can include data directly from the Proficy Historian process database, Proficy iFIX SCADA systems, or any standard OPC sources (OPC DA, OPC AE, and OPC HDA), as well as from CSV and MS Excel files or local and remote relational databases (e.g., SQL, MS Access) via standard interfaces (ODBC or OLE-DB).
This enables users to combine data from various sources for a more comprehensive view of the systems or processes they are monitoring, with reports accessible via a web portal for viewing from browsers and mobile devices.
Proficy Workflow
Proficy Workflow is a software tool for managing workflows in automated and non-automated processes.
Proficy Workflow enables:
- Interactive operator routing,
- Ensuring that all steps in the process correctly executed, and
- Logging actions and events.
Using graphical building blocks, steps and events can be defined for the workflow. Custom user interfaces can be created for operators, as well as interfaces to connect to equipment and machines. Integration with automation systems (e.g., Proficy SCADA, Proficy Historian) or information systems can be achieved with ease.
Proficy Workflow provides greater manageability and control over processes while reducing the potential for operator error. It increases process efficiency and product quality and reduces costs.
Proficy CSense
Proficy CSense is designed to provide a better understanding and analysis of process data and the relationships between them. Using built-in analytical methods, Proficy CSense can identify possible causes of process issues, variations, inadequate batch quality, and simulate process behavior under various conditions.
Proficy CSense is an online tool for monitoring process data, detecting and analyzing adverse process events, and suggesting preventive and corrective actions in real time.
Proficy Plant Applications
It includes the following main functionalities for managing production processes:
- Production management and efficient use of production resources
- Product and process quality management
- Traceability
- Performance management
- Linking production and business systems
Proficy Plant Applications consists of four stand-alone modules:
- Efficiency: managing bottlenecks, calculating, and displaying key production indicators.
- Quality: monitoring of key process (technology) data and quality parameters.
- Monitoring and traceability (Production): implementation and monitoring of the production process based on work orders, genealogy.
- Batch analysis: analyzing and generating reports.
Proficy Batch Execution
Proficy Batch Execution is a software environment that provides comprehensive support for batch process management. The tool enables the modelling of physical equipment in the process, the creation of technological recipes and the management of the batch process based on the international ISA S88.01 standard.
Proficy Cimplicity
Proficy CIMPLICITY HMI is SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software from GE Vernova. It includes all standard functionalities for process visualization, manual process control, data storage, display and alarming. The Proficy CIMPLICITY HMI tool is particularly effective in discrete manufacturing environments, such as automotive, CNC machines and semiconductor industries.
Acceleration Plan (GlobalCare)
The GE Acceleration Plan is a support program that offers users top-tier technical support and the opportunity to upgrade to new product versions free of charge during the contract period.
Proficy Acceleration Plan support also includes:
- Access to free technical support, allowing users to contact the support center by phone, email or online,
- Online access to a support center with advice, a knowledge base and technical solutions,
- Access to forums where users and experts share knowledge and experiences,
- Free access to drivers and SIM (Software Improvement Module) via the internet, with email notifications,
- Access to expansion modules via the internet,
- Unlimited free upgrades to new versions of all products covered by the Proficy Acceleration Plan during the contract period.
With the Proficy Acceleration Plan, you can choose between three options – Standard, Premier and Enterprise.
Industrial Software Sales Manager
Aljaž Stare, PhD.