“Our new look and feel enables companies to be more efficient in their configurations, enhanced failover provides increased reliability, and charting and Historian integration offer more analytic tools than ever before.”
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Overall, this release gives iFIX next-generation visualization, control and real-time information management functionality for multiple industries, including pharmaceuticals, water, and oil & gas,” said Claire Cerrato, director of GE Fanuc’s Proficy HMI/SCADA software products. This gives users much greater functionality.” “I can also create a snapshot of an SPC chart that shows a zoomed view of a particular trend and send it, share it, etc. Now, they can take a sample and have it be charted right there,” he said. “That’s usually means going into a different environment. They can compare a setpoint and output trend to see if things are operating properly,” said Pai.Ĭustomers also like to do runtime SPC on their products, said Pai. “Customers have asked to be able to embed a chart next to critical parameters in the field that means operators don’t have to go off screen to get trend information for PID tuning, for example. It expands the software’s capability to display X-Bar, R-Bar, S-Bar, Histogram and Logarithmic charts, in addition to the more traditional real time and historical charts.
The charting tool in iFIX 5.0 supports advanced graphics (CGI) cards. “It creates SQL query, some users want to use it for on-demand reports.” “Users wanted us to extend to create reports from Historian tables, “said Pai. In addition, VisiconX, an enterprise-wide analytical tool based on ActiveX controls, lets users connect to a database without knowing SQL. Each program looks for existing tags in the other and populates itself. Tags created in iFix can configure Historian tags, and there is a continuous, two-way link between the two. Proficy Historian is now integrated with iFIX, and the installation uses one CD for both products. From that spreadsheet I can add data to the Historian as well,” said Pai. It lets me choose the attributes I want to populate in my iFiX database and eliminates retyping. “It supports an OPC agent and lets me open an EAS file from a Rockwell PLC, for example, and populate a spreadsheet. A new converter wizard to converts older custom Dynamo preconfigured objects to the newer linking technologyĭiscover and Auto Configure 3.0 reads PLC configuration data from third-party PLCs, including Siemens PLC 7 and Rockwell Automation PLC 5, SLC 500 and Micrologix. IFIX 5.0 comes with more than 500 new graphics, all with the dynamic linking function introduced last year in V4.5. “The product includes many Voice of Customer requests which have translated into major features and minor enhancements.”Ĭhanges to alarm functionality helps users know when an alarm was acknowledged and if it was escalated once action was takenĪ library of loadable function blocks-blocks created by customers and system integrators-is now included on the product CD, instead of just on the Support website.Įvent trapping is supported for iFIX’s VBA scripting commands. “This major release of iFIX has received a tremendous amount of positive feedback throughout its development and its Beta program,” said Pai. “The synchronization network can be separate from the SCADA network, and I can prioritize network cards, so synchronization also has failover capability,” added Pai. This capability enables users to synchronize real-time data, including every aspect of the tag database and alarms across the entire network. IFIX 5.0 “ribbons” are new, more intuitive toolbars based on Microsoft Fluent technology.īeyond the new interface, said Pai, important technological advancements in this release include failover enhancements and new database synchronization. iFIX 5.0 is operating system neutral, meaning that users operating on any Microsoft platform, from XP to Vista, can take advantage of the upgraded features. The Microsoft Fluent user interface technology follows the Ribbon Bar concept, which allows users to easily access tools during application development, and configure Quick Access Toolbars to access frequently used tools. It gives more a more efficient and fresher look to someone who is configuring applications.” Its ribbon toolbars change when you go through different options. “We’re updating the look and feel with the Microsoft Fluent interface. “This is a major release within a year’s time, and provides a new image for iFIX,” said Prasad Pai, GE Fanuc’s iFIX product manager.
Charlottesville, VA – With newly available iFIX Version 5.0, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has updated the look and feel and provided nine other classes of improvements to its Proficy HMI/SCADA software.
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