GE Proficy Plant Applications

GE Intelligent Platforms announced the new version of Proficy® Plant Applications providing the advanced functionality and system performance at the global level including more developed user interface and control of observance of the set standards. Plant Applications expands powerful intellectual opportunities of a software platform of Proficy and helps the companies to increase efficiency due to production process optimization.

Proficy automates and integrates functions of information processing for management of production and performance control, including management of parameters of quality and control of admission, loading of actual data about processes and events on production and also extraction of valuable information from a flow of the raw data, providing complete awareness on a situation on the scale of real time. Besides, Proficy facilitates data analysis, necessary for decision making and generates standard reports for services of external control and audit. Automation of these functions gives the chance of "management by exception", expanding knowledge of personnel of the current situation and allowing it to be focused on initiatives of further improvement of processes.

Proficy offers intellectual production managements that means providing on the scale of real time of information on different aspects of production operations. Proficy creates the information environment inseparably linked with production. It allows to control and optimize labor productivity, product quality and processes, compliance to requirements for security and environment protection, accomplishment of plans and also to reduce the volume of incomplete products, to trace genealogy of products, etc. With Proficy users can:

Manage business objectives using for their achievement such means as production schedules, work instructions, specifications of quality, the material requisition, setup of machines and recipes.

Avtomatichseky to trace a real production yield with a minimum load on operators through such means as quality data, conditions of technology process, energy consumption, waste and idle times, harmful emissions and other negative events.

Organize the automatic notification using pop-up disturbing messages or mailings by e-mail for the purpose of the fastest taking measures to prevention or elimination of problems for maintenance of product quality and labor productivity.

In details to analyze the reasons and measures for elimination of undesirable events, such as idle times, quality degradation, deviations from the diagram, etc.