"Proficy ifixes 5.0 has the characteristics of a variety of innovative and advanced functions, and for medicine, water, oil and gas industries, provide new value," GE Fanuc Proficy HMI/SCADA software product director, Claire Cerrato said, "our new look can make the company more efficient in terms of configuration, the reliability, failover charts and the integration of historical data analysis tool provides more than ever. The release of this new software, enabling users to believe that sensitive, advanced and reliable technology can ensure it to run on for a long time."

In Microsoft ® Fluent software User Interface (UI) technology, on the basis of ifixes 5.0 on the table and database manager with a completely new look - "N". The new UI technology USES the concept of the Ribbon Bar, allows the user to easily obtain configuration tool application development phase, get common tools by setting quick access toolbar. The new UI in the form of chart, integrates all the configuration tool, this paper proposes a all of the options at the same time running and reduce the user's "in time" point of view.

Proficy ifixes 5.0 operating system neutral, which means to use Microsoft XP Vista operating system user can use the software upgrade. This ability confirmed GE Fanuc for years for Proficy "open and hierarchical" commitment.

In addition, Proficy ifixes 5.0 new and improved the function of fault can improve the system reliability. This kind of technical ability gives users access to real-time data, mark every aspect of database tag and alert throughout the network. Data from the network synchronization to improve performance, data synchronization and distinguish of real-time SCADA networks, configuration, and allow it to set up the network order will become very easy.

"Factory needs a single version of the facts, only when the real-time data is provided to run the control room, or to provide production management system, it was set up." ARC advisory research director Craig Resnick said. "In the process of application, as in a pacs system run HMI/SCADA software of growing demand, redundancy and fault protection function will become the key important function, this is the terminal customers want. Proficy ifixes 5.0 design will meet the redundancy and fault protection function of these requirements, synchronization, real-time data.

"This is Proficy ifixes important release 5.0, in the research and development and testing phase has received lots of positive feedback." GE Fanuc ifixes product manager Prasad Pai said. "This product contains a lot of customer requirements and, on the basis of transformation to the main characteristics of the products and made some changes to the product. These important items include alarm management enhancement and easier to configure the network of the UI and the ifixes VBA command scripts support."

The real data management solutions

Proficy ifixes 5.0 introduces a new type of artistic drawing tools, expand the data show the ability of the software, such as X-ray Bar, R - Bar, S - Bar, histogram and logarithmic diagram, at the same time support the more traditional real-time and historical charts. Supports advanced CGI graphics and a wide range of surveying and mapping types, such as stripe, area, spline, and the most suitable curve, linear and display of new mapping tool to configure different style. Ideally combined with GE Fanuc Proficy Historian product, these new tools to implement advanced algorithm, is set to obtain and display data effectively, improve the overall performance of the system.

"Proficy ifixes 5.0 with GE Fanuc Proficy Historian has formed a strong combination", Pai said, "the two products provide users with a real-time data management solutions, in the true sense ifixes release of new products for ifixes and Proficy Historian database provides integrated configuration ability. The two products are closely synthetic synchronization database Settings, thus reducing the maintenance of product configuration."

In addition, for the configuration, Proficy ifixes 5.0 standard data connection can read Proficy Historian with a timestamp in the graph data and be included in the process, make it easier for users to obtain historical data and real-time data. Ifixes unique VisiconX tools, increased with Proficy Historian table interface directly, don't need to configure a complex SQL query can be realized the data on the graphics expression.

Alarm management is HMI/SCADA system is one of the most key aspects, ifixes 5.0 introduces a new tool, to sift through the alarm, display and notifies the user alerts to upgrade. Ifixes 5.0 introduces an escalation of alarm functions, such as a particular alarm has increased, it will generate an event, in the process of improve the abnormal notice.

Another new soft caused a rise, with more than 500 called "glyph" graphics object is established beforehand - contains the specific symbolic forms. These "glyph" support track any changes on the main picture operator. All the object supports dynamic link, therefore users can make any graphical objects on the glyphs updates. Because "glyph" has been built in ifixes, so their strong scalability and support animation.

Other features include: Proficy ifixes 5.0

Detection and automatic configuration function: allows the user to read from its PLC PLC configuration files, from a location easily configure drivers, databases, and Proficy Historian. Ifixes 5.0 detection and automatic configuration tool currently support rockwell for PLC5 RSLogix 5/500, SLC and Micrologix 500 series controller, controller for Siemens S7 series of Step 7 and is used to configure the third party equipment general OPC server client driver.

Graphical thumbnails function: Proficy ifixes 5.0 support in Windows explorer "thumbnail view" looking at pictures. This feature extends to ifixes Workspace, when sliding to graphics name, users can view graphics snapshots.

Custom analog data rate by introducing a custom analog data capacity, ifixes 5.0 to further strengthen the SCADA ability of the product. This feature allows the user to configure a label to the standard input and the original value according to the EGU proportion of a user wants to get the value of output data.

Load chunk: load the data block is a kind of special blocks of data, it is based on the needs of customers have been around for years. Traditionally, these data blocks can be used in the GE Fanuc Suppor website to download. However, Proficy ifixes 5.0 products CD will contain all the data block, users can easily extend it has very powerful database. For existing users, this will provide a seamless upgrade; And for new users, it will be for their database configuration to add more capacity.

"Proficy ifixes 5.0 has for almost every industry, on the earth in every corner of the customer provides the solution for decades." Claire Cerrato said, "in the update and improve products, GE Fanuc continues to ifixes that a large number of r&d, to keep the offer clients need most things - even when their business has changed."

(sinosam editor)