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Proficy Process Systems

Proficy Process Systems is a state-of-the-art, scalable, fully integrated system for process automation and control. This unique technology is changing what’s possible in process, by delivering the Results your business demands, the Experience your challenges require, the Freedom you’ve been missing and the Contemporary Technology you’ve been waiting for.

Results

Your business is based on results, and Proficy Process Systems helps you deliver them – helping you to optimize operational performance, gain operational visibility and maximize uptime and productivity.

  • Improve Quality and Reliability
  • Increase Throughput, Performance and Efficiency
  • Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Experience

For over 20 years, GE Intelligent Platforms has been a leading provider of solutions to the process industries. Along with our qualified local system integrators, we can provide the domain expertise needed to solve your toughest control system challenges.

  • Expertise Serving Your Industry
  • High Quality, Local Support
  • Proven, Award-Winning Process Control Technologies

Freedom

In the past, control systems required you to adapt your business to their technology. With Proficy Process Systems, you have the freedom to design and implement your system as you see fit.

  • Choose the Fieldbus That Works Best for You
  • Scale to Meet Your Specific Requirements Now and in the Future
  • Gain Flexibility in Your Control Strategy Development

Contemporary Technology

Today’ process control systems are required to accomplish more than ever. Proficy Process Systems is designed to meet those challenges, by leveraging GE Intelligent Platforms’s proven technologies in a fully integrated system that adds up to even more than the sum of its award-winning parts.

  • PACSystems Controllers Handle Process, Discrete and Motion Applications
  • The Latest Versions of Our Leading Proficy HMI/SCADA Software Applications
  • Inherent Layering of Proficy Production Management Software

Unique Architecture

Learn more about the architecture that makes Proficy Process Systems so unique

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What's New in 1.5

Proficy Process Systems – Version 1.5

GE Intelligent Platforms is pleased to announce the release of Proficy Process Systems - Version 1.5. This new release brings the feature of dynamic updates for Ethernet Global Data exchanges, Run Mode Store Transfer List Changes, an upgrade to iFIX 4.5 and CIMPLICITY 7.5 visualization technologies, a new 3-state device control block, and an upgrade to the Batch option to Proficy Batch Execution 5.1.

Dynamic Ethernet Global Data Exchanges
With this release of the product it is no longer necessary to stop the controller to update the Ethernet Global Data (EGD) exchanges. With version 1.0, customers needed to create spare PPS blocks and exchanges ahead of time to handle making EGD modifications to their control strategies without the need to stop the controller. That restriction has been removed with this release of the product, allowing new PPS blocks and exchanges to be created and dynamically added to the controller without the need to stop the controller.

Run Mode Store Transfer List Changes
This release of the product provides for Run Mode Store Transfer List changes. The user will be allowed to add, delete, and modify transfer list entries in a run mode store. A transfer list entry can either be a raw address or a symbolic variable that has been designated for input and/or output transfer. When two redundant controllers are synchronized, the redundant transfer list can only be stored in a dual RMS. Dual RMS provides a way for customer to insure simultaneous activation of run mode store items across two controllers in a redundant system.

3 State Device Control Block
A new 3 State Device Control Block has been added to the system. The states can be configured by the user. As an example, the states for a three state motor could be forward, reverse, and off. The states for a three state valve might be closed, intermediate, and opened. Devices with three speed modes might have the states labeled as slow, fast, and off. Introduction of this new block adds to the power and flexibility of the system.

Upgrade to iFIX 4.5 and CIMPLICITY 7.5 Visualization Technologies
Proficy Process Systems provides you the option of either iFIX and CIMPLICITY as your visualization for the system. With this release, iFIX has been upgraded to the 4.5 release and CIMPLICITY to the 7.5 release.

As a reminder - Never upgrade a technology that is part of Process Systems separately. Example – a new version of iFIX or CIMPLICITY is released. You must not install this onto a Process Systems node. You must wait for the Process Systems version that includes it. Installing a separate product CD or DVD onto a Process System could seriously affect the operation of the system and is not supported.

Proficy Batch 5.1 Included on System DVD
GE Intelligent Platforms can provide customers with a complete and comprehensive Batch solution with our Proficy Process Systems and Proficy Batch Execution offerings. When combined, these allow a customer to create, maintain, schedule, and run their batch operations. To make the installation of Batch easier with Proficy Process Systems, the Batch Execution software is included on the Proficy Process Systems installation DVD. As a reminder, Batch Execution is still purchased separately as an option.

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