GE F Automation

GE Fanuc Automation is preparing for the launch of CIMPLICITY® Version 7.0, the latest addition to our family of HMI/SCADA products. CIMPLICITY 7.0 will help you improve your business performance through powerful new features and increased integration with our Proficy family of products.

We have focused on improving security, disaster prevention and recovery, simplified project development, and improved connectivity to CNCs. With CIMPLICITY 7.0 your development costs will decrease and your day to day operational performance will improve.

One of the key ways CIMPLICITY can help you improve your business performance is through the integration with other products in the Proficy family. Unique to the industry, GE Fanuc has integrated its Change Management product with CIMPLICITY to provide you with revision control of your projects.

HMI/SCADA and Change Management WebCast on November 1
GE Fanuc and Control Engineering are hosting a webcast entitled "Change Management: The 'Undo' Button for HMI/SCADA Projects". This webcast will highlight the major advantages of incorporating change management functionality within an HMI/SCADA application.

The event will feature Craig Resnick of ARC Advisory Group and will be moderated by Renee Robbins, Editorial Director of Control Engineering.

Register now for this event, at www.controleng.com/changewebcast.

CIMPLICITY 7.0 can be integrated with our Portal product, providing you with the ability to analyze your current and historical data into meaningful information is critical to improving your operations. Enhancements have been made in CIMPLICITY 7.0 that now allow you to host Portal screens within your CIMPLICITY screens, or CIMPLICITY screens within your Portal screens. You now have even further insight into your operations than ever before.

Historian has been integrated in CIMPLICITY 7.0. When using historical trends in CIMPLICITY, Historian provides a significant performance enhancement over SQL, in many cases over a 10X increase in the speed for retrieving and charting the data. SQL is still supported and in fact we support logging to both SQL and Historian at the same time. This allows you to enhance your system at your own pace.

We have also enhanced the integration between CIMPLICITY and Machine Edition View by supporting the passing of array points between the products.

We’ve also made enhancements to OPC in Version 7.0. We now include the CIMPLICITY OPC Server at no charge. The OPC Server allows you to provide information that CIMPLICITY has gathered or generated out to other OPC capable systems. In addition to this we’ve added some features and enhancements to the OPC configuration and event handling.

Security has been improved with the ability to integrate with Change Management to limit who can make changes and track and roll back changes if required. In addition, we’ve added the ability to specify that a password must be entered to start or stop a project. Privileges for Privileges for Right Mouse Menu Actions and Password enhancements have also been added.

We’ve also improved our connectivity to the latest series of our CNC controllers.

CIMPLICITY 7.0 also adopts the common Proficy software licensing allowing one licensing method for all of your GE Fanuc software. Based on hardware keys, you will see several benefits including:



* Out of the box, up and running – With the hardware based keys you no longer have to call in to register your software. You can install your software and are immediately licensed to use it. No more reading off or typing in long hexadecimal authorization codes.
* Easily Updated – When you update your system in the future you will receive a new file that allows you to re-burn your key. You do not need to return your original key and wait for a replacement.
* Extreme High Reliability – The hardware keys are highly reliable and have a very low failure rate. When compared to the issues hard disk failures caused with software based licenses, hardware keys offer a huge improvement in reliability. To protect your system and your operations we have designed the CIMPLICITY software so that it will not shutdown should the hardware key fail or be accidentally removed from the system. In the rare case where a key is damaged or fails, simply call GE Fanuc and we will provide you with a temporary software key that allows your system to run until the damaged key can be returned or replaced.
* Freedom – Freedom to easily move your software license from one computer to another. With the new hardware keys you can easily move the license to the machine you want to use it on without having to call GE Fanuc to re-register your system. It’s your key, move it and use it as you like.

Make sure your GlobalCare contract is up to date and get ready for this new and exciting release of CIMPLICITY. Please contact your CIMPLICITY sales representative for further information.