CIMPLICITY from GE Digital

What’s New in CIMPLICITY 11

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GE Digital portfolio
Build Operate Maintain Service

Automation MES OPM APM FSM

Manufacturing Operations Asset Performance Field Service
Execution System Performance Management Management
Management

• Delivers • Tracks, • Provides visibility • Processes assets’ • Manages the

Supervisory Control documents, and to operational and real-time data for service delivery
And Data manages the key business predictive analytics process (e.g.,
Acquisition manufacturing indicators • Optimizes schedule, dispatch,
(SCADA) process • Optimizes maintenance routing)
• Provides human • Provides visibility production and strategies across • Provides service
machine interfaces into conditions on operations assets and sites technicians with
(HMI) the plant floor asset information

Edge-to-Cloud, Extensible, Scalable Industrial Application

Platform
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The Proficy Family
Digitizing processes & democratizing digital tools to enable collaboration & continuous
improvements
Visualization
Dashboard, Analytics &
Analysis
enabled
Predix
time-series
across all
Predix MDC levels and
roles for
Business
Intelligence
Proficy Operations Hub

Proficy Plant Tracker

Dream Proficy Proficy
Applications (Discrete, repetitive ROB-EX
Report for automated Historian Workflow
(Hybrid, repetitive
Conveyor-based Scheduler
Proficy
Proficy

process
process)
Complex assembly
process)

Proficy
Proficy Operations Hub
Webspace

CIMPLICITY Proficy Batch

WIN-911
HMI/SCADA Execution

I/O Drivers – IGS

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Proficy HMI/SCADA: proven multi-purpose, multi
industry
Collect, analyze, share real-time production
•
information
HMI/SCADA • High performance User Full data collection
Interface • Supervisory Control
(iFIX/ • Open, extensible, and scalable client-server
• Real-time and historical trends
CIMPLICITY) • Powerful alarming strategies architecture
• TCP/IP & OPC communications
Dream Report for
Reporting Connectivity IGS Drivers
HMI/SCADA Proficy
Extended WIN-911, Alarm
Alarm Notification Work process mgt Proficy Workflow
Capabilities Cast
Web HMI, Proficy
Remote/mobility Operations Hub (Q2 Local data storage Proficy Historian
‘20)

Dynamic Routing Tracker Batch managementProficy Batch Execution

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CIMPLICITY Applied
Diverse Installed Base: Process, Discrete, Hybrid
Infrastructure Manufacturing
• Transit Systems/Airports • Large Automotive
• Jail Systems • Semiconductor
• Rail Systems • Appliances
• Tunnels • Metals
Facilities • GE Manufacturing plants
• Large University Campuses (Power, Aviation and more)
• Automated Parking Systems Oil and Gas
• Data Centers • Station HMI
• Critical Power • Control Room
Power • Compressor Control
• Large Energy Producers OEM for Industry Solutions
• Mining Industry – Power Gen, • Marine Applications
Transmission/Distribution • Cranes
• Balance of Plant – Steam • Port Management
Water/Wastewater • Packaging Machines
• Large Scale Water systems • Off Shore Drilling
• Municipalities

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CIMPLICITY from GE Digital
Proven multi-purpose, multi-industry HMI/SCADA
Efficient Operations
• Alarm Management and escalation
• Work Process Management
• Production Tracking
• SPC, Recipe, Incident Playback (DGR)
• Device Connectivity
• High Availability
Powerful Development Tools
• Design Library
• Database Model based design (Classes/Objects)
• Extensibility (VB, .NET, Rich APIs)
• Open Standards (ISA, IEC, OPC)
Highly Scalable
• Small systems to large (>500K) point count, enterprise server

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Tracker by GE Digital
Assembly Manufacturing: Automotive, Appliances, Electronics

• Affects the production of 65% of the cars

manufactured in North America
• Has 40,000+ users in the Automotive
manufacturing
• Build to Sequence rates of 99% for 400,000
vehicles per year at just one US
Nissan/Infiniti site.
• At Jaguar Land Rover manages production
of 250,000 vehicles / year, & 10 plants
• Is implemented at 7 automotive
manufacturers & 30 plants in China
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Tracker by GE Digital, key features & benefits

High level features Benefits

• Routing & Tracking • Facilitates a Build to Order/Build to

• Order Management Sequence Environment
• Broadcast • Ensures building it right the first time
• Sequence Management • Collects genealogy and traceability data
• Substitution Management for audit trails and regulatory compliance
• Hold Management • Enables lean manufacturing
• Manages WIP inventory control
• Helps finding critical jobs
• Help meet production schedules
• Optimizes manufacturing resource
utilization
• Handles defect containment
• Supports hold management

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 HMI/SCADA Themes

Rapid Application Development Intelligent User Interface IIoT Technology

Improve Time to Value Eliminate Human Error Unlock

optimizations

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IIoT Technology
A standard-based open ecosystem for interoperability

• OPC UA, MQTT: Discovery, Configuration & Data

Exchange
• ISA 18.2, ISA 101: Operator performance & safety
• Web-based technologies, Cloud, Docker: Deployment,
Product updates, Accessibility/Mobility, Collaboration &
IT Cost
• APIs (REST, OPC UA, MQTT), Custom Widgets:
Extensibility, Integration, Bridging
• Machine Learning/AI: Prescriptive Intelligence

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Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Enable rapid development of customized solutions through tighter

integration with 3rd party sources and GE Digital products providing
easier and better:

Configuration &
Connectivity Security Deployment
Build Tools

REDUCTION OF BUILD/DEPLOY TIME FOR THE ENGINEER

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CIMPLICITY 11 overview Asset 1
• Model
(OPC UA) Asset 2
• Model
(OPC UA)

• Tags • Tags
• Alarms • Alarms
• Mimic data • Mimic data
Rapid Development Tools reduce Time To Solution
• Reduce build time Web-based Enhanced mimic building tools & libraries
– Classes/Objects browser for animations and expressions
– Improved Smart Object Building capabilities using reduced scripting enhancements

• REST APIs for remote configuration

Tracker Enhancements
• Ad hoc distributed queries
• SQL Always On support
New CIMPLICITY IOT version
Technology Updates
• Proficy Historian Array Support
• Threadpooling for Scripting
• Server 2019, SQL 2017 support
• System Logs to SQL

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CIMPLICITY 11: OPC UA auto-discovery

• Connect securely to OPC UA servers utilizing GDS (Global Discovery Server)

• Web based browsing of UA server namespace
• Multi-selection of variables to create CIMPLICITY database in offline or dynamic
mode
• Save significant development time on database creation from OPC UA data sources

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Reduce or eliminate scripting in your applications

• Open/Overlay screen variable assignment by value

• Text animation supports writing to a variable - useful for
creating forms
• Variable Assign Procedures
• Function to retrieve Terminal Services Session Id
• More faceplate options
(remove system menu, pinning)
• Tooltip enhancements
(justification, multi-line, rounded corners)
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Enhanced expression functions

• Time functions
• Shape functions
• Text Formatting functions

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Class browsing for expression building

Browse directly to your classes and objects to build class

graphics, procedures
• Reduce manual entry
• Reduce time to build Web HMI compatible screens

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Tracker SQL Always On support
A high-availability and “disaster recovery” solution
for SQL Server
• SQL Server AlwaysOn provides. It makes use of
existing SQL Server features, particularly Failover Clustering,
and provides new capabilities such as availability groups. ...
It aims to provide more granular control to achieve High
Availability.
• Tracker 11 has been tested and supports SQL Always On
setups
• Non-TADB (Tracker Attribute Database) Tracker has been
tested.
TADB is not supported at this time.
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Script execution threading option

CIMPLICITY 11 adds the option to run your scripts in a thread

pool
You can control the size of the thread pool
Manage both memory and performance of your CIMPLICITY
scripting to increase overall system performance!

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Other Enhancements

Alarm Setup Enhancements

• Wildcard expressions to filter alarm display
Change Approval
• User Interface shows current and new values
CIMPLICITY online help
https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/cimplicity/

Database storage for status logs

• Allows for searching and filtering to identify problem areas
and improve maintainability and performance LOG

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 UX Enhancements
CIMPLICITY 11 at a glance Webspace
6.0 HTML
CIMPLICITY 5
Database Show Current and New
/ MODEL point values during Change
OPC UA Browse and approval.
Security
Create
enhancements

Technology updates
• Collect CIMPLICITY arrays
to Proficy Historian arrays
Arrays • EMRP Threadpool
New Expression Rapid Development Tools • Store status log in SQL
Browser including Proficy • Upgraded Windows and SQL
Classes
Historian 8.0 Support
Alarm Setup / Filter
Enhancements
+ Point description
Enhanced Smart Object support -
New expression functions replace Tracker enhancements
scripting • Ad hoc distributed queries

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• Tracker SQL Always On support

REST
CIMPLICITY online help
REST API for https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/cim
plicity/
remote
configuration
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Complementary Products
Added capabilities
CIMPLICITY Added capabilities

Dream
Proficy Proficy IGS
Report for
Webspace Historian Connectivity
Proficy

Driving more outcomes for our customers

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Proficy Webspace from GE Digital

Full-featured HMI/SCADA on the

Web
• Native HTML5 – no plug-in
• Zero client configuration for fast
deployment
• No re-design of graphics
• No graphic, scripting or 3rd party
restrictions
• Multi-instance support
• Can scale big (up to 70 clients for
iFIX, 120 for CIMPLICITY)
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 Architecture Options* incl. Load Balancing & High
Availability
Option Ordering & Licensing Deployment

Single – Not on SCADA • One (1) Stand-Alone Independent Stand Alone Independent
Independent Stand- Webspace Server (license includes one Webspace Server
1
alone Webspace Server SCADA client) with required number of
clients and desired options
Independent
Single – on SCADA • One (1) Independent Webspace Server Webspace Server
2 Independent Webspace with required number of clients and
Server desired options

Load Balanced • Two (2) Dependent Hosts either on Dependent

Application SCADA Node or with SCADA Client. Webspace
3 Requires two (2) Desired Webspace Client Count Servers
Relay Server
Dependent Hosts and one • One (1) Relay Server. No SCADA, No
(1) Relay Server Webspace Clients
Relay Server
Load Balanced + High • Two (2) Dependent Hosts either on
Availability SCADA Node or with SCADA Client. Dependent
Webspace
Requires two (2) Desired Webspace Client Count Failover (Backup) Servers
4 Dependent Hosts and two Relay Server
• Two (2) Relay Servers, one as Failover
(2) Relay Servers (Backup license). No SCADA, No
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*Webspace 5.0 and above required
What is Proficy Historian?

A software that
CONNECT
collects industrial data
at very high speed, OPTIMIZE COLLECT

stores it securely,
distributes it and
allows for fast retrieval PREDICT ARCHIVE

& analysis
A foundational ANALYSE
MONITOR
(VISUALIZE
&

element of your Digital CONTROL)

Transformation

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Proficy Historian main capabilities

Collect Data Store & Normalize Distribute

1
0

• Time-series • Scalable from small • HMI/SCADA clients,

process data and to large: Millions of Web HMI, etc.
alarms & events tags • HTML5 client
data from industrial • High Availability • S95 Model Support
equipment and
• Data compression • Native API &
processes
• Native collectors • Secure storage Methods to move
data to HDFS &
• Store & Forward Predix
capability
• Big data on-ramp
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Proficy Historian Add-on

• CIMPLICITY 11 includes Proficy Historian

Historian
Essentials
CIMPLICITY tag Essentials
Historian Essentials – now Version count permanent tag
SCADA Buffer
(200 days) tag
8.0 count
count
75 100 2500
• A separate activation key allows for 150 100 2500
provisioning on or off SCADA node 300 100 2500
700 500 2500
1500 500 2500
5000 1000 2500
10000 1000 2500
35000 1000 10000
Unlimited 1000 10000

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Dream Report for Proficy (version 5.0 available)
A professional Designer-Friendly™ reporting software for industrial
automation
Open & direct connectivity
• Real-time connectivity to HMI/SCADAs, PLCs, ...
• Connectivity to databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, ...)
• Direct connectivity to proprietary historians
Easy-to-use
• No programming or scripting
• No programming skills required to design reports
• Quick learning curve
Scalable All-In-One Solution Templated reports for specific
• Simple installation, not resource intensive
vertical applications!
• Output can be PDF, Excel, Web page, Database • 21 CFR Part 11 • Batch
• Automatically Send to Printer, e-mail and Browser • Water / Wastewater • ISA 18.2 Alarm
• Building Automation Management
• Heat Treatment

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Industrial Gateway Server (IGS)
Robust, flexible connectivity Options to drive connectivity Technical updates
further
• Full featured connectivity • Basic protocol families • MS Server 2016,
solution include solutions for 2012R2
Modbus, OPC, ODBC,
• Enable communications • Windows 10, 8.1, 7
Allen-Bradley, GE,
to 1000’s of devices
Honeywell, InTouch, • Latest in vendor
• Saves time through Mitsubishi, Omron, firmware
seamless integration Siemens, Yokogawa and
• Media Level
more
• All Basic Protocol families Redundancy is included
are now included on the • Premium drivers for
license for one price. industry/vertical specific
Premium drivers ordered applications like power, oil
separately & gas, and water
• OPC UA and tunneling
support
• IoT Gateway Option
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Architecture
 HMI/SCADA Architecture & Technology
Cloud (FUTURE)

MONITORING, ANALYTICS

Web HMI / CLOUD

• Using Predix Edge
Operations Predix
connectivity for control to Hub* HMI
cloud WebSpace PREDIX EDGE GATEWAY
• Cloud Micro-App and
Microservices Built on APM MONITORING, CONTROL, ANALYSIS
framework, leveraging Web HMI /
Web HMI HMI
Asset and Dashboard. Operations
Hub*
WebSpace CLIENT-SERVER
HMI HMI COMMUNICATIONS
Thick Thick
Client Client DATA, ALARMS, CONTROL,
COMMUNICATIONS
On Premise

•
Windows-based Servers and SCADA
Thick Clients
SCADA Web
• Java-based HTML5 Web
Server Server DATA ACQUISITION,
Client CONTROL
• Mobile (iOS and Android)
support PLC, DCS, RTU, etc.

• Multi-protocol support (OPC, Plant Floor Devices

OPC UA, DNP3, Modbus, EQUIPMENT
etc…)
* Proficy Operations Hub 2.0 available Q2 2020
Inputs / Outputs

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Multiple Client Options
CIMPLICITY
CIMPLICITY Viewer Advanced OPC
CIMPLICITY Viewer
• Standard Viewer

• Advanced
• Development SCADA PLC
Server
Terminal Services
Device Connectivity
Proficy Webspace Native Drivers and OPC

Proficy Web HMI (Proficy Operations Hub*)

Remote Viewers,
WebSpace or Terminal
Services
PLC

* Q2 2020

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Questions?