GE Fanuc Emphasizes Commitment to Process Industry

The latest version (1.5) of Proficy Process Systems, less than a year from our launch last year, emphasizes GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms commitment to the process market space, says Steve Ryan, General Manager – Process Solutions.

“With the new added features of dynamic changes to the Global Namespace, run mode store transfer lists, iFIX 4.5 visualization technologies, and connectivity to our latest Proficy Batch 5.1 release, we have increased the capabilities to provide high availability solutions to our customers.”

One of the key features in Proficy Process Systems – Version 1.5 provides is dynamic changes to the global namespace,

"This dynamic 'configure once' capability provides a significant savings of development time over traditional HMI and PLC based systems. Now there is no reason for the controller to be stopped to make on-line changes to the system, says Ryan.

Global namespace allows for tags configured with the process control function blocks in the controller to be seamlessly available throughout the system. GE claims this global namespace capability can reduce system configuration time by 30 percent.

The system also has other control features including a comprehensive set of function blocks for advanced regulatory control. In addition, user defined function blocks can be created for the freedom and flexibility to define control algorithms as necessary, and system integrators can lock these blocks to protect their intellectual property.

The fieldbus technologies can be chosen according to applications because Proficy Process Systems provides an open fieldbus approach by supporting Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus DP and PA, HART, Ethernet, and ASI.