iFIX 2024 – February 8, 2024

New generation HMI/SCADA for Connected Workers, faster centralized configuration & flexible deployment

• Enhance visualization with aspect ratio-based scaling and click zones
• Save time with centralized license management and central registration improvements
• Speed the right actions with improved alarm management: up to 80% reduction in alarm generation & distribution time during alarm floods, Workspace startup performance enhancements for up to 80% improvement, security areas flexibility, alarm counters evolution, and alarm analytics

Proficy Smart Factory (MES) 2024 – February 22, 2024

Proficy Plant Applications 2024, Cloud OEE & Cloud MES

Find out why four analyst firms named us a Leader in MES, as we help manufacturers meet sustainability requirements, overcome supply chain disruptions, and converge OT/IT to fuel digital transformation.

• New enterprise-level multi-site capabilities, and backend modernization for the ultimate scaling ability as well as built-in high availability (SaaS edition)
• Optimize across your enterprise with improved scale via Kubernetes support for backend and web client front end for Cloud (SaaS edition)
• Ease administration with web-based Configuration Hub plugin, gain compatibility with the 64-bit Excel Add-In (available now via the Support Community), and capture manual data more efficiently with a new Autolog
• Achieve faster time to value: faster troubleshooting with integrated Elastic Search, Downtime widget and Activities operator “to do” list widget for Operations Hub
• Improve discrete manufacturing with new out-of-the-box capabilities:  Engineering Change Order to ensure accurate and approved changes to new and in progress work orders, operator qualifications on operations, tool traceability during order execution, NCM extensions, ability to define downgraded material, and more
• Decrease downtime with new predictive analytics capabilities: Predictive Downtime and True Root Cause Downtime

Proficy Historian 2024 – March 7, 2024

OT Data Management from the Plant & Enterprise to Cloud

• Improve scale and security with enhancements to horizontal scalability, collectors, security, APIs, and cloud hyper-scalability
• Ease administration and implementation with Configuration Hub enhancements, enterprise model support, and ETL performance benchmarking
• Optimize operations with Sparkplug B-MQTT enhancements to leverage IoT, predictive trending, Quicksight Q interface in AWS, and more

Proficy Operations Hub 2024 – March 21, 2024

Enable the Connected Worker with contextual & composable OT visualization

• Reduce costs with containerized Proficy Operations Hub on AWS
• Optimize operations with analysis enhancements including external time and pen selections for trending
• Enhance visualization with HMI aspect ratio-based scaling and click zones
• Ease administration with central management

CIMPLICITY 2024 – April 11, 2024

New generation Enterprise SCADA reduces costs, increases visibility, and improves cybersecurity

• Improve visualization with enhanced HTML5 HMI through Operations Hub
• Optimize operations with new analytics capabilities including alarm analytics and PID control loop health monitoring
• Speed the right actions with: improved alarm viewer performance, alarm state persistence parameters, and reduced process startup time
• Boost security, uptime, and scalability with remote project, active update, and event manager enhancements
• Save time with centralized licensing, Configuration Hub, Global Class Library, and more

Native HTML5 with Operations Hub layered with CIMPLICITY means less installation and maintenance effort, easier mobility, responsive design, added value with modern web functionality, secure by design, and rich information where and when you need it on the device of your choice.

 

Proficy CSense 2024 – April 25, 2024

New Comprehensive AI/ML enabled Cloud-Based or On-Prem Industrial Analytics

What is the value of a 10% performance improvement in your plant or enterprise? With Proficy CSense, you can optimize asset & process performance in your manufacturing plants with proven, easy-to-use industrial analytics.

• Improve operations with five comprehensive analytics capabilities in one software solution: analysis, monitoring, prediction & forecasting, simulation, and optimization
• Extend your existing Proficy software with integrated Proficy analytics and AI/ML innovation
• Increase ease of use with a NEW modern look and feel
• Supercharge performance with a NEW 64 bit CSense  – analyze larger datasets, analyze more datatypes, utilize any 64-bit open-source Python modules, and deploy more powerful analytics, algorithms, AI/ML models, and more
• Designed for AI/ML: NEW array datatypes now enable processing of data sets in a single execute, and mixing of real-time stream and batch data set processing in a single real-time analytic. For example, training an AI/ML model, and using it in real-time for high-speed predictions or closed loop control.

Recipe Management – May 9, 2024

Better manage production recipes across their lifecycle and speed product changeovers

Efficiently and centrally develop, manage, store, and remotely download recipes to manufacturing equipment without affecting the production process on the individual machines themselves.

• Accelerate the preparation, approval, and download of a list of recipes to selected process systems – any time, any place
• Comprehensive recipe management across entire lifecycle including central recipe storage
• Create workflows that lead stakeholders through the recipe lifecycle for approvals and actions
• Compliance: ISA-88 standards – enables class-based recipes; FDA and EudraLex guidelines for software products (21 CFR Part 11, GMP Annex 11)
• Compatible with your devices of choice – desktop/laptop, tablet, or phone
• After recipe transfer, machines can operate autonomously
• Support for: generic (class-based) recipes, recipe versioning, standard uploads and downloads, full-line security, audit trail, and multiple simultaneous downloads of class-based recipes, and more