GE Fanuc Announces Roadmap for Upgrades and Releases
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-GE Fanuc Automation Americas Inc., a unit of GE Infrastructure, announces a roadmap of upgrades and releases for its Proficy Automation and Production software family which spans from programming and control to HMI/SCADA to historian and manufacturing execution system to a real-time information portal. This year, the company announces a major upgrade to Proficy, with a data-model and event-based platform based on the Proficy Historian and Proficy Real-Time Information Portal technologies. The new platform will allow users to standardize on a single manufacturing IT platform for managing real-time operations. The Proficy platform will include packaged integration with enterprise systems and Proficy HMI/SCADA applications as well as provide an extended library of tools and published APIs for third-party development of applications.
"A year ago, GE Fanuc launched the Proficy family as a vision for Integrated Production Management-from control to ERP (enterprise resource planning)," says Bernie Anger, vice president of software technology for GE Fanuc Automation. "In 2004, we strengthened Proficy with a dozen new releases across all Proficy applications and have plans to launch another 15 releases in 2005. Our core focus in 2005 is to enhance the fundamental infrastructure of Proficy with a data-model centric platform for managing production operations that will take our customers' productivity to the next level."