GE Intelligent Platforms is pleased to announce the availability of CIMPLICITY Version 8.1, the latest addition to our family of HMI/SCADA products. Version 8.1 maximizes the power of your information with new innovative for both the development and runtime environments. Change Approval/eSignature - Achieve regulatory compliance, avoid regulatory penalties and conform with good manufacturing practices by using the new change approval feature. This feature delivers an audit trail, approval before operating, multi-signature and commenting capabilities. Alarm variable association - CIMPLICITY 8.1 brings a new ability to easily log up to 6 additional points when an alarm occurs or changes state. This information can be easily viewed in the A&E table and in the historical alarm viewer which enables instant analytics for quick operator resolution. More flexible classes - 8.1 introduces enhancements that enable more flexible classes which speed new product developm...
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Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition What is SCADA? It is supervisory control and data acquisition in which automation is done from remote locations. It is partial controller it is always used with PLC, which is main controller. PLC is located on the site but with the help of SCADA we can monitor and give command to the PLC. Why do we use SCADA in automation? In PLC we cant see the actual process ongoing in the industry for that SCADA is used in which we get animated view of that process. Using SCADA we can supervise as well as control the process. Advantages of SCADA: 1. Increase in productivity. 2. Improves quality. 3. Increase in safety. 4. Flexibility. 5. Increasing efficiency. 6. It is versatile. Elements of SCADA: 1) Object 2) Properties 3) Tags Object: - In SCADA we need some shapes to represent the actual machines e.g.tanks, pipes, ...