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.
Cimtec Automation Blog
Manufacturing facility managers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their production lines and identify bottlenecks in their operations. One of the metrics that managers can use to characterize the performance of their organization is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Managers that examine data on their production performance in an efficient manner and can correlate events with causes in real time can gain more control over their operational procedures and ultimately increase the quality and performance of their facility.
OEE is a factor that is used by production managers to evaluate performance and effectiveness of a process, whether that process takes place at a single workstation or across a complete factory. OEE takes in several individual measurable metrics and normalizes them in such a way that OEE can be compared to other production lines or even other industries. OEE is often used as a key performance indicator (KPI) for manufacturing operations, particularly those focused on lean manufacturing. OEE also allows companies to benchmark their individual manufacturing lines against other plants within their organization and across their industry.
There are three basic metrics that are used to calculate OEE:
OEE is therefore Availability X Performance X Quality. So, if a machine has 95% Availability, 85% Performance, and 93% Quality, then OEE = 0.95 X 0.85 X 0.93 = 0.75, or 75%. Because it is nearly impossible to achieve a perfect OEE, as even small reductions are multiplied through the equation, a target OEE of 85% is a common goal for many manufacturing operations. However, many manufacturing operations are thought to have actual OEE levels of 40-50%.
While it is possible to track OEE through manual data recording and collection, it is far more efficient to automate this data collection. Manual data collection is more prone to operator error, so, OEE values calculated with manually collected data is less accurate than if it is calculated using data collected automatically. Manual data collection is also slow, and it takes time to gather and analyze hand-written or hand-entered data.
GE Intelligent Platforms's Intelligent Platforms' Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency is a tool that can help facility managers get a handle on their current OEE, and plan methods to improve OEE. Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency can automatically collect the data from each manufacturing line needed to calculate OEE in real time, so managers can monitor line performance from shift to shift, looking for disparities in OEE and implementing effective solutions. Proficy Efficiency allows manufacturing facilities to leverage their existing manufacturing and automation systems by connecting with many different kinds of applications.
When a manufacturing facility deploys an OEE tracking system effectively, the facility can get a better handle on production and performance metrics. These metrics can help managers make faster and more informed decisions about optimizing manufacturing processes. Managers can track downtime, production levels, and waste, and can determine causes or effects of system events in real time, allowing them to respond faster, and in turn improve OEE. Performance can be compared shift by shift and hour by hour, or product to product.
If OEE can be improved, facilities can increase their profit while maintaining operational costs:
Profit = Plant Sales x Plant Gross Margin x % Increase in OEE
For example, consider a plant producing $10M in product sales per year with a plant gross margin of 50% and a plant OEE of 60%. If the plant can realize a 10% increase in OEE from efficiency software & focused performance improvement efforts, this would result in an increase in profits of $300,000.
By implementing an automated method for measuring OEE, such as GE Intelligent Platforms's Intelligent Platforms' Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency software, companies can identify and take action on negative factors such as equipment bottlenecks, unexpected downtime, and production losses caused by shortages in materials or resources. Manufacturers that identify these negative conditions and take action can increase equipment utilization rates, providing them with a distinct and sustainable advantage over their competitors.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Proficy Cimplicity and Windows 7
Many of our customers have a corporate IT initiative to move to Windows 7. In other cases they purchase new hardware and notice that Windows 7 is the only OS available. Cimplicity version 8.1 provides full support for Windows 7. Automatic configuration upgrades with Cimplicity are the best around. We've converted version 3 to version 8.1 with no manual touch ups.
Don't get caught with an old system that is not easily replaceable due to hardware availability. Older Cimplicity versions (4,5) typically run on Windows NT machines and versions 6 and 7 run on XP. Both these platforms are hard to find these days, so in the case of a hardware failure, buying a new PC and simply re-installing existing software may not be an option. The best option is to upgrade proactively now while the older system is still functioning and you can do a side by side migration.
Don't get caught with an old system that is not easily replaceable due to hardware availability. Older Cimplicity versions (4,5) typically run on Windows NT machines and versions 6 and 7 run on XP. Both these platforms are hard to find these days, so in the case of a hardware failure, buying a new PC and simply re-installing existing software may not be an option. The best option is to upgrade proactively now while the older system is still functioning and you can do a side by side migration.
Calculate Return on OEE Improvement
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Improving Production Performance
Manufacturing facility managers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their production lines and identify bottlenecks in their operations. One of the metrics that managers can use to characterize the performance of their organization is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Managers that examine data on their production performance in an efficient manner and can correlate events with causes in real time can gain more control over their operational procedures and ultimately increase the quality and performance of their facility.
What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness?
OEE is a factor that is used by production managers to evaluate performance and effectiveness of a process, whether that process takes place at a single workstation or across a complete factory. OEE takes in several individual measurable metrics and normalizes them in such a way that OEE can be compared to other production lines or even other industries. OEE is often used as a key performance indicator (KPI) for manufacturing operations, particularly those focused on lean manufacturing. OEE also allows companies to benchmark their individual manufacturing lines against other plants within their organization and across their industry.
How to Measure OEE
There are three basic metrics that are used to calculate OEE:
- Availability - Availability is the percentage of time that a machine is available for operation. Availability is the same as “uptime”, and is calculated as a ratio of available time divided by schedule time.
- Performance - Performance compares the operational speed of a machine to its designed speed. Performance is calculated by multiplying the number of parts produced by the ideal cycle time, then dividing by the available time.
- Quality - Quality measures the percentage of quality or “good” parts out of the total part run. Quality is calculated by dividing the number of good parts created by the total number of parts created.
OEE is therefore Availability X Performance X Quality. So, if a machine has 95% Availability, 85% Performance, and 93% Quality, then OEE = 0.95 X 0.85 X 0.93 = 0.75, or 75%. Because it is nearly impossible to achieve a perfect OEE, as even small reductions are multiplied through the equation, a target OEE of 85% is a common goal for many manufacturing operations. However, many manufacturing operations are thought to have actual OEE levels of 40-50%.
Tools for Tracking OEE
While it is possible to track OEE through manual data recording and collection, it is far more efficient to automate this data collection. Manual data collection is more prone to operator error, so, OEE values calculated with manually collected data is less accurate than if it is calculated using data collected automatically. Manual data collection is also slow, and it takes time to gather and analyze hand-written or hand-entered data.
GE Intelligent Platforms's Intelligent Platforms' Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency is a tool that can help facility managers get a handle on their current OEE, and plan methods to improve OEE. Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency can automatically collect the data from each manufacturing line needed to calculate OEE in real time, so managers can monitor line performance from shift to shift, looking for disparities in OEE and implementing effective solutions. Proficy Efficiency allows manufacturing facilities to leverage their existing manufacturing and automation systems by connecting with many different kinds of applications.
Benefits of Tracking OEE
When a manufacturing facility deploys an OEE tracking system effectively, the facility can get a better handle on production and performance metrics. These metrics can help managers make faster and more informed decisions about optimizing manufacturing processes. Managers can track downtime, production levels, and waste, and can determine causes or effects of system events in real time, allowing them to respond faster, and in turn improve OEE. Performance can be compared shift by shift and hour by hour, or product to product.
If OEE can be improved, facilities can increase their profit while maintaining operational costs:
Profit = Plant Sales x Plant Gross Margin x % Increase in OEE
For example, consider a plant producing $10M in product sales per year with a plant gross margin of 50% and a plant OEE of 60%. If the plant can realize a 10% increase in OEE from efficiency software & focused performance improvement efforts, this would result in an increase in profits of $300,000.
By implementing an automated method for measuring OEE, such as GE Intelligent Platforms's Intelligent Platforms' Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency software, companies can identify and take action on negative factors such as equipment bottlenecks, unexpected downtime, and production losses caused by shortages in materials or resources. Manufacturers that identify these negative conditions and take action can increase equipment utilization rates, providing them with a distinct and sustainable advantage over their competitors.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Proficy Historian 4.0
FEATURES
Easy Configuration and Administration
Unparalleled, Enterprise-wide Performance
Open and Layered Compatibility
Standard Interfaces for Data Access
Highly Reliable System Architecture
Advanced Data Management
Wide Range of Performance and Execution Applications
Easy Configuration and Administration
- Simple configuration
- True thin-client administration
- Support for virtualization
Unparalleled, Enterprise-wide Performance
- Sub-second data collection
- Ultra-efficient data compression
- Collect up to 2 Million data points per server
- Manage up to 1000 collectors per server
- Precise time stamp resolution
Open and Layered Compatibility
- Wide range of collectors including OPC Alarms and Events
- Highly compatible with 3rd partysolutions
- Leverages 64-bit architectures,with full 32-bitcompatibility
- Embedded applications support via Windows XPe
Standard Interfaces for Data Access
- Open access for ERP and MES applications
- Full featured SDK
- OLE DB
- User API
- OPC Historical Data Access (HDA)
Highly Reliable System Architecture
- Fault tolerant architecture
- Support for Microsoft Cluster Server
- Redundant data collectors
- Supports multiple time zones and Daylight Savings Time
Advanced Data Management
- Designed to help customers comply with FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11
- Calculation and Server-to-Server Collector
- Powerful data management and system optimization tools for Enterprise level administration
Wide Range of Performance and Execution Applications
- Access to advanced visualization and powerful analytical tools
- Wide range of Industry- and Application- specific solutions
- Empower the enterprise through seamless integration with the full Proficy platform
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