Available within Proficy Flashcards

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What is available within Proficy?

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  • HMI/SCADA
  • Historian
  • Manufacturing Executing Systems (MES)
  • Workflow
  • Enterprise
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What is available within HMI/SCADA?

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  • iFIX
  • CIMPLICITY
  • Change Management
  • Batch Execution
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What is available within Historian?

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  • Historian
  • Pulse
  • Cause+
  • Troubleshooter
  • Real-time Information Portal (a.k.a Portal)
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What does MES stand for?

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Manufacturing Executing System.

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What is available within MES?

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  • Proficy Plant Applications
  • Datamart
  • Maintenance Gateway
  • Scheduler
  • Tracker
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What is available within Workflow?

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  • Workflow

* SOA

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What does SOA stand for?

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Services Orientated Architecture.

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What is available within Enterprise?

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  • Open Enterprise
  • S95 Support
  • Cluster and 64-bit OS Support
  • Enterprise/Region/Local Management
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What is iFIX?

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Proficy iFIX is a robust HMI/SCADA solution, providing process visualization, data acquisition, analytics and supervisory control of your process. It is well suited to monitoring continuous and batch processes. It gives you the power and security to precisely monitor and control every aspect of your process, as well as your equipment and resources.

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What are the core tasks of iFIX?

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  • Data Collection
  • Supervisory Control
  • Historical and Real-time visualization
  • Data provider for other Proficy components
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Who are the core users of iFIX?

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  • Operations
  • Maintenance
  • Engineering
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What are the benefits of using iFIX?

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  • Faster response to production or process issues
  • Less waste
  • Improved quality
  • Faster time-to-market with new products
  • Increased profitability
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What is CIMPLICITY?

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CIMPLICITY provides superior HMI and SCADA functionality and establishes a solid foundation for your digitized production and process operations. CIMPLICITY is very well suited to all applications in discrete manufacturing and machine control.

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What are the core tasks of CIMPLICITY?

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  • Data Collection
  • Supervisory Control
  • Historical and Real-time visualization
  • Data provider for other Proficy components
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Who are the core users of CIMPLICITY?

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  • Operations
  • Maintenance
  • Engineering
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What are the benefits of using CIMPLICITY?

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A true client/server architecture and an open system design offer fast, easy integration with the ability to grow from a single computer node to a plant-wide monitoring and control system, providing real-time information from the factory floor to all levels of the enterprise.

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What is Change Management?

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Proficy Change Management is a powerful solution for managing your automation systems and protecting your software and engineering investments. It insures that your automation systems continue running safely and efficiently.

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What are the core tasks of Change Management?

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  • File access management
  • Scheduled backup
  • Disaster recovery
  • Version control
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Who are the core users of Change Management?

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  • Operations
  • Maintenance
  • Engineering
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What powerful capabilities does Change Management include?

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  • Security
  • Version Control
  • Audit trails
  • Central Storage
  • Automated backup and recovery
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What is Batch Execution?

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Proficy Batch Execution delivers all the tools you need to build a complete monitoring and control solution for batch applications. It has a robust set of tools, an open architecture and an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

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What are the core tasks of Batch Execution?

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  • Data collection
  • Batch Process Control
  • Historical and Real-time visualization
  • Data provider for other Proficy components
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Who are the core users of Batch Execution?

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  • Batch Operations
  • Maintenance
  • Engineering
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What is the benefit of using Batch Execution?

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Proficy Batch Execution can help you transform your production processes into a powerful competitive advantage.

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What is Proficy Historian

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Proficy Historian is the foundation for intelligent production management; it is a versatile, reliable and scalable method for managing your production data.

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What are the core tasks of Historian?

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  • Historical data collection and archiving
  • Data compression
  • Data provider for historical and analytical applications
  • Data provider for other Proficy components
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Who are the core users of Historian?

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  • Operations
  • Engineering
  • Analysts
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What benefits are there to Proficy Historian?

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  • It can seamlessly connect to virtually any HMI/SCADA application, legacy plant database or directly to plant floor devices.
  • It can be easily integrated into your current production environment.
  • It can be scaled to keep pace with your growing business.
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What is Proficy Cause+?

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Proficy Cause+ is a modeling and analysis application that integrates tightly with Proficy Historian and Proficy HMI/SCADA to identify likely causes for problems in real time.

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What benefirts does Cause+ provide?

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  • It enables an intelligent form of proactive alarming and decision support so operators can correct issues before a problem occurs.
  • By adapting your workforce’s knowledge into the Cause+ real time engine, you enhance the system’s ability to predict disruptive events and alarms.
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What are the core tasks of Cause+?

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  • Analysis of historical data
  • Root cause analysis
  • Problem avoidance and correction
  • Real-time feedback and visualization via HMI/SCADA
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Who are the core users of Cause+?

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  • Operations

* Engineering

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What is Proficy?

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Proficy from GE Digital, is a platform to enable the following:

  • Collection and visualization
  • Historization and
  • Analysis of data, and for
  • Execution, and
  • Integration