Process control system provides efficiency upgrade

Proficy Process Systems features a common global namespace that provides simplified configuration and maintenance for the user.

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released Proficy Process Systems - Version 1.5.

Proficy Process Systems is a fully-integrated process control system that will provide customers with improved quality and reliability, increased throughput, performance and efficiency and reduced total cost of ownership.

Proficy Process Systems features a common global namespace that provides simplified configuration and maintenance for the user.

Tags in the system are defined once and then referenced and used throughout the system.

This global namespace capability can reduce system configuration time by 30%.

"One of the key features that Proficy Process Systems - Version 1.5 provides is dynamic changes to the global namespace", Mickael Desloges, Product Manager Process for GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Europe, said.

"The global namespace allows for tags configured with the process control function blocks in the controller to be seamlessly available throughout the system".

"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".

The foundation of Proficy Process Systems is a contemporary hardware and software infrastructure that offers the benefits of both traditional DCS and PLC/HMI systems, without many of the historic limitations of those approaches.

GE Fanuc's multidisciplined PACSystems controllers can handle process, discrete and motion control applications, giving users flexibility in their control system.

HMI/Scada and Historian technologies, coupled with Batch and a complete production management suite, allow customers to close the gap between automation and information.

The system is also packed with 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.

Customers can choose the fieldbus technologies they need for their applications because Proficy Process Systems provides an open fieldbus approach by supporting Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus DP and PA, HART, Ethernet and ASI.

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