Software offers VCR-like playback function.
Press Release Summary:
CIMPLICITY® HMI Plant Edition(TM) v6.0 offers CIMPLICITY SQL 2000 and screen playback capabilities, which allow users to play back historical logged data through graphic screens via virtual remote. View, alarm, and paging functions aid in database archiving and reporting, process analysis, and plant response time. Version 6.0 leverages Microsoft® technologies and provides infrastructure for data collection and visualization of aggregated data.
Original Press Release:
GE Fanuc Releases CIMPLICITY® HMI Plant Edition(TM) Version 6.0
New VCR Playback Function Speeds Process Analysis
CHICAGO - October 21, 2002 - GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., an affiliate of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces the release of CIMPLICITY® HMI Plant Edition(TM) Version 6.0. This new version of the award-winning CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition software features CIMPLICITY SQL 2000 and VCR-like screen playback capabilities as well as view, alarm, and paging enhancements to help improve database archiving and reporting, speed process analysis, and decrease plant response time to manufacturing crises. GE Fanuc is showcasing CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition Version 6.0 at the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation (ISA) Conference and Exhibition, Chicago, October 21-24, 2002, Booth #2440.
"CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition continues to be a cornerstone for innovative automation solutions," said Kevin Roach, vice president of the global solutions business at GE Fanuc. "This new version leverages the latest Microsoft® technologies and provides an infrastructure for data collection, visualization of aggregated data, and manufacturing intelligence to empower a manufacturer's workforce and reduce downtime and scrap while driving productivity."
Now available, CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition Version 6.0 offers a new option, Visual CIMPLICITY Replay (VCR). The VCR option allows users to play back historical logged data through their graphic screens via a virtual remote. The VCR option, combined with CIMPLICITY SQL 2000, can help users quickly analyze production and process problems for greater manufacturing uptime.
New alarming technology features a historical viewer, class enhancements, sound extension and dynamic value updates in the alarm display. Additionally, GE Fanuc has expanded view capabilities for point description visibility and thumbnail support. Other new features include: support for Windows XP(TM) Operating System, complete electronic documentation in HTML format, and OPC Client Communication enhancements.
About GE Fanuc Automation
GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., is a leading global supplier of automation solutions and is a joint venture between GE and FANUC, Ltd. of Japan. GE Fanuc products and services include CIMPLICITY® collaborative production management software, nano to high-end PLCs, a wide range of CNCs, motion control, operator interfaces, industrial computers, lasers, and a wide range of integration and customer support services. Headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., GE Fanuc is part of GE Industrial Systems. For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com.
About GE Industrial Systems
GE Industrial Systems spans the globe as an industry leader in integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. The business brings to customers the latest technological products used to distribute, protect and control electrical power and equipment, and provides innovative product and service solutions for commercial, industrial, residential and utility applications. Headquartered in Plainville, Connecticut, USA, GE Industrial Systems (www.geindustrial.com) is one of the major businesses of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE).
For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com or contact:
GE Fanuc Information Center
P.O. Box 8106
Charlottesville, VA 22906
Phone: (800) 648-2001
Fax: 434-978-5205
e-mail: gefanuc@gefanuc.com
CIMPLICITY is a registered trademark and Plant Edition is a trademark of GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
