Proficy Historian
Proficy* Historian from GE Intelligent Platforms is a powerful, enterprise-wide data historian that collects, archives and distributes tremendous volumes of real-time production information at extremely high speeds.
Improving Processes Across the Business
Proficy Historian ties together islands of automation information without compromising data resolution. It enables an integrated view of your entire operations with accurate, real-time information and instant access to historical data. With Proficy Historian, you can compare past production runs, analyze the data prior to a downtime event, and plot ideal production runs against in-process runs. You can easily generate reports and share information across your enterprise using standard web browser tools.
Built-in Data Collection That Leverages OPC and Specific Built-In Drivers to Legacy or Non-Standard Equipment
Proficy Historian has built-in data collection capabilities and can capture data from multiple sensors and systems. It is ideal for capturing data from sensors and other real-time systems because it uses manufacturing standards such as Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control (OPC), which facilitates communications by providing a consistent method of accessing data across devices.
Faster Speeds
In contrast, a plant-wide historian provides a much faster read/write performance over a relational database and “down to the millisecond” resolution for true real-time data. This capability enables better responsiveness by quickly providing the granularity of data needed to analyze and solve intense process applications.
Higher Data Compression
The powerful compression algorithms of Proficy Historian enables you to store years of data easily and securely online, which enhances performance, reduces maintenance and lowers costs. You can configure GE Intelligent Platforms’s Proficy Historian without the active maintenance and back-up routines that a traditional RDB requires. Archives can be automatically created, backed up, and purged—enabling extended use without the need for a database administrator.
Robust Redundancy for High Availability
Proficy Historian addresses high availability in three areas. First, clustering at the data store much like an RDB, as well as another level of redundancy at the collector function, which is a critical component. If there are mission-critical data collection points, the collectors themselves can be configured in a redundant fashion. Proficy Historian also addresses network and server disruptions through a “store and forward” capability, which buffers data at the collector should a disruption occur. The buffers are eventually uploaded when the server comes back online with automatic reconnection ensuring no data loss. With these levels of redundancy, Proficy Historian offers the highest level of availability.
Enhanced Data Security
Proficy Historian is designed to enforce higher standards of data security. You can implement security for historians at the functional group or down at the tag level. Furthermore, is tracks just about all changes by default, including user access, configuration changes, security violations and system alerts; they even keep a copy of original tag values if altered.
Quicker Time to Value
When installing a Proficy Historian, you can “normalize” the implementation, using standard interfaces to decrease implementation time by approximately 50%. You also don’t need to manage or create data “schemas,” triggers, stored procedures or views—resulting in quick installation and configuration without specialized services such as custom coding or scripting.
Data Governance
Data Governance is a quality control discipline for assessing, managing, using, improving, monitoring, maintaining, and protecting organizational information. Proficy Historian is designed for high availability and to be fault tolerant to insure the proper collection, storage and accessibility of important production data.
The latest 4.5 release of Proficy Historian expands on the unparalleled power of our 4.x series Enterprise Historian platform with significant scalability, performance, and functionality improvements. This release allows our customers to fundamentally change the way they use Historian to aggregate and accelerate information across their enterprises.
For customers new to the product, this is an ideal opportunity to take advantage of Proficy Historian as a foundation for operational excellence, and for our existing customers, a chance to upgrade their Historian implementations and take advantage of the powerful new features. Start thinking about the expanded role Proficy Historian can play in improving your competitive advantage!
The following outlines the high level benefits of the latest version 4.0 release:
Major Scalability & Performance Enhancements
Proficy Historian scales to significant new levels, allowing customers to leverage data across their operations, both in plants or across global enterprises. Across-board gains have been made in volume of information that can be collected per server, data throughput, and connectivity.
Expanded Functionality
New functionality required to deliver next-generation solutions in a wide range of operating environments, including condition-based collection, unsolicited tag compression timeout, and a new hybrid retrieval mode for enhanced data analysis.
Improved Compatibility & Integration
Proficy Historian empowers administrators to reduce operating costs, with flexibility & agility to support dynamically changing business conditions. Key enhancements include a powerful new client access API, enhanced application examples,embedded applications support via Windows XPe, continued support for the latest Microsoft technologies, and full backward compatibility with 32-bit operating systems.
Ease of Use and Reduced Overall Cost of Ownership
Proficy Historian empowers administrators to reduce operating costs, with flexibility & agility to support dynamically changing business conditions. Features such as enhanced archive management, improvements in system monitoring and management, and enhanced support for intermittent/low-bandwidth networks help our customers rapidly realize business benefit and sustain their advantage in a cost-efficient manner.
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