New offerings in HMI/scada
GE Fanuc HMI/scada solutions, through the use of discovery and automated configuration, offer added value and easier setup on third party hardware than HMI/scada solutions from the vendors themselves. The Proficy HMI/scada discovery and auto-assembly component (DAC) is specially designed to identify field data and automatically configure both drivers and scada databases to use the information.
The new component – which is installed as standard to GE Fanuc Automation HMI/scada – iFIX 4.0 and in the future will include Cimplicity – delivers an easy to use interface for discovering tags from field-based devices like PLCs. This then allows the user to configure HMI/scada drivers to acquire data from those tags, and configure HMI/scada databases to use the data for alarming, logging and so on.
The DAC tool consists of three components:
* Discovery agents are specially developed for various data sources.
* Driver configurators offer the ability to configure a driver to acquire data from the field.
* A Database Configurator will configure the HMI/scada database to use the data from the driver.
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