New software release answers the question, "What's hidden in your data?" Analytics tools ride the early part of the new wave in manufacturing software.
{mosimage}GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, this week announced the introductions of Proficy Troubleshooter and Proficy Cause+, the updated release of Proficy Historian version 3.5. The two new applications are designed to work with Proficy Historian in order to provide advanced analytics and to enable actions.
“Everyone not only needs some method for archiving plant data and a system for supervisory control and data acquisition, but also an effective way of doing rapid process troubleshooting and other continuous improvement initiatives utilizing its real-time plant data,” said John Leppiaho, product general manager for GE Fanuc’s Operations Management Software. “GE Fanuc’s Proficy Historian is already proven in industries all over the world for collecting, storing and retrieving mission-critical data. The addition of Proficy Troubleshooter and Proficy Cause+ gives users advanced analytics and control of their processes to drive operational excellence.”
Proficy Historian 3.5 is a plant-wide data historian that collects, archives and distributes real-time plant floor process information at high speeds. Proficy Troubleshooter is an off-line, value-add product to Proficy Historian that analyzes process variation. It is used to identify causes for production problems and identify the opportunity for preventing these problems in the future. Proficy Troubleshooter acts as a bridge between Proficy Historian and Proficy HMI/SCADA obtaining relationships between process variables and preparing benefit estimations for real-time deployment.
Proficy Troubleshooter contains multivariate modeling and data-mining techniques, yet does not require a background in advanced statistics or modeling. It also provides a clear path to real-time solutions for the user – deploying insights as a real-time intelligent monitoring and advisory solution in Proficy Cause+, with outputs displayed in Proficy HMI/SCADA and web-based reporting.
The components of Proficy Troubleshooter are:
Proficy Continuous Wizard for troubleshooting time-based and/or continuous process data
Proficy Discrete & Batch Wizard for troubleshooting generic index-based, discrete and/or batch process data
Proficy Architect for data preparation, simulation and solution development
Proficy Cause+ wires in the real-time data and introduces alarms based on causal relationships within the process. It extracts more value from real-time data, in the form of likely causes of process or asset-related problems and variation in real-time, with pre-configured corrective actions to the operator if alarm-conditions are triggered.
Proficy Cause+ is a value-added decision-support solution to the Proficy HMI/SCADA iFix and Cimplicity products that also provides reporting on causes over specified periods of time for production management and process engineers. It enables real-time causes of process problems (e.g. bad batches), real-time corrective actions to address process problems, wizard-based and custom development and simulation of a real-time solution before deploying it within Proficy HMI/SCADA, model- and rules-based cause identification, web-based reporting of causes over user-defined periods, causes-based intelligent alarming, and capturing of expert knowledge for real-time expert system use.
Proficy Cause+ enables production engineers, and process specialists, to generate real-time causes for production process deviations. During such real-time Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) deviation, in-depth process knowledge is delivered to an operator to provide specific actionable message guidance for correction. It is a real-time application by which production process variation is identified, and whereby root causes for such variation is visualized. Proficy Cause+ is a value-add component, which is deployed directly in existing HMI SCADA/DCS systems. Proficy Cause+ is therefore mostly used by plant Operators.
“Progressive companies are achieving even greater benefits by extracting and applying knowledge from historical and real-time data with advanced analytics,” said Tom Fiske, Senior Analyst ARC Advisory Group. “Traditionally, the use of advanced analytics required high domain expertise to apply effectively. This is no longer the case. Solutions such as those offered by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms brings the power of real-time visibility and advanced analytics to the masses.”
The core Troubleshooter and Cause+ software were developed by CSense Systems, headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa, and are sold and supported globally by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. According to Derick Moolman, president of CSense Systems, “GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has collaborated with CSense Systems to address current market requirements. Our solution is achieved through providing a new more intelligent Historian and HMI/SCADA, aimed at the general broad user base, providing off-line and real-time analytics with the option to scale to Advanced Process Control for ready clients, all on an integrated technology platform.”
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