GE Fanuc manufacturing intelligence application

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced Proficy Real-Time Information Portal 3.0, designed to allow users to gain business insight from plant data in real time. It enables real-time decision support, continuous process improvement and enhances the return on current and future IT investments.

This release offers a tighter integration with GE Fanuc’s production management software, Proficy Plant Applications. The context of plant floor data is also improved with new tools to represent it, such as dials, gauges and a heat map. Version 3.0 also provides the ability to mine third-party databases with an enhanced statement builder and improved interaction with that data through enhanced forms capabilities.

A single web client combines content from other GE Fanuc software applications, such as Proficy HMI/SCADA — iFIX and data from across all online data sources within the plant and the organisation, allowing for real-time decision making at all levels. Proficy Portal’s graphical presentation rapidly communicates essential information from more complex data sets for notification of alerts, status changes and data summaries.

As the web client for the entire GE Fanuc software portfolio, Proficy Real-Time Information Portal provides a consistent set of tools for analysing and reporting disparate process, lab and shop-floor SPC systems, along with interfaces to off-line Six Sigma tools such as Minitab.

Proficy Real-Time Information Portal is a thin-client application that runs under the Microsoft IIS webserver and connects to plant floor technology such as OPC, HMI/SCADA, quality systems, production management systems and third-party databases. It provides self-service ad hoc reporting and presents data in its natural presentation form.