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Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY
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Why Proficy HMI/SCADA?Overcome Business
challenges

• Global Competition
• Cost pressures
• Regulatory Concerns

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Why Proficy HMI/SCADA?Overcome Production
Concerns

• Do you need to improve your shop floor
  operations?
• Reduce downtime and improve efficiency?
• Get your operators engaged in solving your
  production problems?
• Consolidate alarms from across your facility?
• Provide real time access to your process and
  production information? Over the web?
• Provide mobile access to information for
  operators or maintenance personnel?
• Meet internal or external regulatory requirements?

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Why Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY?

• Leverage and protect your current investments.
• Gain Insight into your operations.
• Optimize your performance.
• Meet Security and Regulatory requirements.
• Drive Results.
• Support your business globally

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What is CIMPLICITY?

• Data collection and aggregation.
• Visualization.
• Analysis and process improvement.
• Bridge the enterprise and the plant floor.

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CIMPLICITY Solution

• Industry Leading Flexibility and performance.
• Integration with Proficy family for complete
  solutions.
• Best in Class Configuration tools.
• True SCADA architecture.
• Reliability.
• Global Support.
• Built by manufacturers.
• Superior Channel support.
• Proven OEM and vertical solutions.

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Device ConnectivityDid you standardize on one
control vendor, or are there several types of
devices in your facility?

• CIMPLICITY connects to hundreds of the most
  popular plant floor control devices.
• OPC and Native High Performance Device
  Communications are available.
• Multiple and simultaneous device communications

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VisualizationDo you need dedicated displays, web
access, PDAs?

• Traditional Thick Client Viewers
• Multiple users easily added to system.
• Remote WebView Products
• Easy access to information over the Web.
• Mobile ThinView Products
• Access information while you roam your facility.
• Windows Terminal Services
• Remote System Administration.
• Alarm Pagers
• Quicken response time to issues.

With CIMPLICITY, you are always connected
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Connectivity to Other SystemsDo you need to
interface with other systems?

• Historian and Portal Connectivity to the Proficy
  Suite.
• Proficy SQL provides Microsoft SQL 2000.
• Oracle Support through standard ODBC.
• OPC Client, Server, and AE.
• API Interfaces allow custom integration.
• Basic Control Scripting Language allows for
  program integration.

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CIMPLICITY Software Architecture

• Scalable Client/Server Architecture
• High Level of Data Integrity
• Easily Share Data Between Nodes
• Superior Feature Set

• Easily Replicate CIMPLICITY Projects
• Fault Tolerant System Architecture
• Open Systems - Easily Integrate toEnterprise
  Systems

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Powerful Tools and Options

• Base System Tools
• CimEdit / CimView
• Configuration
• Database Logger
• Alarm Management
• Basic Control Engine
• Point Control Panel
• Point Cross Reference
• Dynamic Measurements
• Graphic Tools
• Quick Trends
• Trends
• XY Plots
• Symbols SmartObjects Library

• Options
• Action Calendar
• HMI for CNC
• Integrators Toolkit
• Marquee
• Multi-Processor Support
• Pager
• Recipes
• Redundancy
• SPC
• SQL
• System Sentry
• WebView
• ThinView
• Terminal Services
• VCR

Easier Development, Commissioning and Maintenance
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The ResultA powerful system that empowers your
workforce to be more productive!

• Plant Wide Alarming
• Powerful Graphics
• Live and Historical Trending
• Web access
• Mobile PDAs
• Powerful Options
• Integrated

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Key Customers
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CIMPLICITY Applied
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Nissan North America

• CIMPLICITY is a major contributor to making the
  plant the most productive car plant in North
  America, and were passing those benefits on to
  our new facility.
• Mike Head,Department Managerfor plastics and
  systems engineeringat Nissan.
• Benefits
• Faster inventory turns
• Greater productivity
• Shorter lead times
• Better quality control

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Metrolina Greenhouses
I have used many different vendors automation
hardware and software over the years, and I find
that GE controls are by far the quickest and
easiest to program and use William (Bill)
Durkee,Maintenance Engineering,Metrolina
Greenhouses

• 80 acres of heated greenhouse in Huntersville, NC
• Supplier to WalMart, Lowes, Home Depot
• System GE 90/30s and CIMPLICITY
• Benefits
• Automated movement of plant carriers and watering
  - Action Calendar .
• Mobility for growers to move throughout facility
  ThinView

When other people in my industry see the
level of automation I have here, they are amazed.
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JL Specialty Steel

• The results weve achieved by working with GE
  and the entire GE team have been staggering. The
  DRAP lines all-in-one design, combined with the
  benefits of automation and networking, have not
  only revolutionized our internal operation, but
  also produced a higher level of product quality
  and service that has become evident to our
  customers as well.
• Gary Urso
• Process Control and Automation Manager

• Manufacturer of high-quality, flat-rolled
  stainless steel.Direct Roll Anneal and Pickle
  (DRAP) Line Midland, PA
• Results
• 75 decrease in manufacturing time
• Faster delivery to customers
• Lower processing costs
• Less material handling
• Higher quality
• Data sharing between plant andbusiness systems
  for improved analysis

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Reliant StadiumUni-Systems designs and installs
the worlds first retractable roof for the NFL
When an announcer tells a stadium full of people
that its time for the roof to roll, it had
better roll on time, every time, not only for
show purposes but for safety reasons. GE control
system provides tremendous diagnostics
capabilities. If theres a problem, we will find
it right away.Lennart NielsenSenior
Electrical EngineerUni-Systems

• System
• GE 90-70 PLCs and CIMPLICITY
• CIMPLICITY screens show
• Roof operation
• Drill down for Genius I/O diagnostics

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ParkomatAutomated parking system

• Our client was confident that we could satisfy
  major aspects of concern which were safety and
  reliability of the control system
• General Engineers Israel

• System
• GE 90-30 PLCs and CIMPLICITY
• Benefits
• Reliable Control
• Quick Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

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TrimJoistMass produced wooden trusses

• The test machine that we developed using GE
  controls is extremely advanced and far more
  flexible than any other test machine used in this
  industry.
• Craig Snyder, P.E.
• Production Engineer
• TrimJoist Corporation

Results Substantial time and cost savings.
Significantly improved data collection and
analysisin real-time. Fast software
programming after brief training. Valuable
trending information via statistical database.
Decreased labor requirements. Improved quality
and designs.
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Hutchinson TechnologySuspension Systems for Hard
Drive Heads

• With the GE System, were able to monitor as
  many points as needed in an easy-to-use graphical
  environment.
• Jennifer Behm
• Controls Engineer
• Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
• Results
• Ability to meet tight manufacturing
  specifications.
• Downtime reduced by 30.
• Improved quality.
• More detailed manufacturing reports.
• Cost-effective, easy-to-use interface.
• Communication between plant and management
  software systems.
• Open controllers communication to machine
  subsystems.

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Why Select GE and CIMPLICITY?

• Software from a Proven Company
• GE is here to stay
• Global Resources
• A Successful and Proven Solution
• 20 Years of products
• Thousands of customers
• 200K Seats
• Technology Leadership
• Windows Client/Server Architecture
• Web / Thin Client / Wireless
• Advanced Value Add Options