GE Proficy Workflow

Proficy Workflow of version 1.5 has potential on assurance of changes allowing the companies owners to create safer working environment, to provide compliance to the legislation to considerably save time and to cut down expenses.

"Electronic signatures allow to create safer working environment as operators confirm with them any changes of the entered data, – Sheila Kester, the chief manager of group of software development for operational production management of GE Intelligent Platforms company says. – "The magazine of control" is necessary to facilitate ensuring compliance to legislative arrangements; he helps to confirm that you control the production process and you can trace as when it happened and who is responsible for it. This technology is obligatory to application in sferebiotekhnologiya and the food industry. In other industries she is also capable to reduce risks and to optimize production."

Assurance of changes in a system is performed by the electronic signature (the EDS, eSignature) for controlled data. The electronic signature is a unique identifier of the operator executing change. Besides, the electronic signature of other person confirming change as that is required by the algorithm of registration of actions provided by the Proficy Workflow system can be required. In addition to a trace of audit, Proficy Workflow gives an opportunity to generation of "audit reports" on controlled questions now and also reports on use of electronic signatures in technology processes.

Proficy Workflow 1.5 supports the 64-bit systems now and has the best scalability. Besides, adding of ISA-95 model allows to manage material stocks at the level of batches (lot) and sub-consignments (sublot). New service gives the chance to create, increase, reduce, request and to read out data, to change a status or location, to delete and liquidate batches and sub-consignments. Adding of ISA-95 model also allows to receive data on utilization for improvement of the business reporting, planning of material stocks and optimization of production processes. Version 1.5 has advanced models of reaction for accounting on use/resource consumption. It allows to register the actual number of personnel, the equipment and materials used by production process.

Proficy Workflow allows to organize flows of detailed up-to-date information for improvement of the business reporting, material resource planning and process optimization. Operators can deal with what occurs and to react to it with the consecutive, accurately regulated actions which became their daily rule.