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Proficy* Historian 5.0

The foundation of enterprise operations data management,
delivering insight through information
Features At the core of GE’s Proficy* software platform, Improve Processes Across Your Business
• Enhanced SCADA integration with new Proficy Historian provides a high-performance
Proficy Historian ties together islands of
SCADA buffer foundation for enterprise-class solutions.
automation information without compro-
– Simple, intuitive configuration mising data resolution. It enables an
– True thin-client administration Proficy Historian from GE Intelligent Platforms
integrated view of your entire operations
– Support for virtualization is a powerful enterprise-wide data historian
with accurate, real-time information and
• Enterprise Performance that collects, archives, and distributes tremen-
instant access to historical data.
– 64-bit architecture| dous volumes of production information at
– Scales to 20 million data points and over 2000 extremely high speeds.
With Proficy Historian, you can compare
collectors per server
– Sub-second sampling past production runs, analyze the data prior
Increase Your Process Visibility
to a downtime event, and plot ideal produc-
• Open & Layered Compatibility Built specifically for the acquisition, storage tion runs against in-process runs. You can
– Full 32-bit compatibility
and retrieval of industrial process informa- easily generate reports and share informa-
– Wide range of collectors, including OPC A&E
– Embedded applications support via Microsoft® tion, Proficy Historian improves visibility, tion across your enterprise using standard
Windows® XPe provides context to raw data, and aggregates web browser tools.
– Highly compatible with third-party solutions islands of information–resulting in better and
faster decisions, increased productivity and Seamless Integration With the
• Standard Interfaces for Data Access
– Open access for ERP and MES applications reduced costs across your enterprise. Proficy Software Suite
– Application integration via OLE DB, .net API, Proficy Historian is part of GE’s award-
SDK, and OPC HDA Proficy Historian offers unique capabilities
winning Proficy software suite, the world
– Powerful new Collector Toolkit for dedicated and benefits for a sustainable competitive
interfacing
standard in high-performance industrial
advantage:
software solutions. The tightly integrated,
• Rich systems diagnostics with new • Built-in Data Collection comprehensive suite of world-class prod-
Windows Perf Mon Collector • Fast Read/Write Performance Speeds ucts and services includes HMI/SCADA,
– Fault tolerant architecture • High Data Compression advanced analytics, MES, work process
– Support for Microsoft Cluster Server • Quick Time to Value
– Redundant data collectors
management solutions built on the Proficy
• Enhanced Data Security SOA platform, and more—addressing a
– Enhanced data security
• Robust Redundancy for High Availability wide range of operations challenges across
• Advanced Data Management • Open & Layered Integration various industries.
– Powerful data management and systems
optimization with industry-leading Data Stores
– Designed to help customers comply with FDA’s
21 CFR Part 11 FOCUS FEATURES
– Calculation & server-to-server collection
Data stores are a powerful new concept The new SCADA Buffer embeds the
in Time Series data management allowing powerful Proficy Historian engine directly
for the partitioning and fit-for-purpose into the heart of our SCADA solutions,
optimization of Proficy Historian. Never enabling customers to easily collect
before have customers had so much information for real-time trending,
control over how their archiver performs, seamlessly move data into longer term
how data gets managed, and how system Historian storage, and take advantage
resources are allocated to reduce overall of all of the new Proficy applications
cost of ownership, improve performance, capabilities being built on the powerful
and enable compliance. Historian foundation.
Proficy Historian 5.0 – The foundation of enterprise operations management

Built-in Data Collection That Leverages in the way you need it. Its aggregation and to the automation layer, providing a single
OPC and Specific Built-In Drivers to retrieval methods would be difficult in other environment whereby you only have to
Legacy or Non-Standard Equipment database technologies. This capability enables configure tags once, and you can store
better responsiveness by quickly providing process data seamlessly in a secure, central
Proficy Historian includes built-in data
the granularity of data needed to analyze location. Through an intuitive interface
collection capabilities and can capture data
and solve intense process applications. and access to powerful configuration and
from multiple sensors and systems. It uses
archive management capabilities, you can
manufacturing standards such as Object
High Data Compression streamline system administration activities,
Linking and Embedding for Process Control
reducing overall cost of ownership. Impor-
(OPC), which facilitates communications by Proficy Historian comprises powerful
tantly, your system can grow efficiently
providing a consistent method of accessing compression algorithms, which enable you
and effectively as your solution scales
data across devices. to store years of data easily and securely
across the enterprise, allowing for expected
online—enhancing performance, reducing
changes without loss of information or
Instead of having to build custom software maintenance and lowering costs. For
complex and costly re-mapping of data.
for every type of data source as required for example, you can configure Proficy Histo-
other solutions, Proficy Historian does not rian without the active maintenance and
Enhanced Data Security
need to know any of the details regarding back-up routines that a relational database
the propriety data sources. It can instantly requires. Archives can be automatically Less vulnerable to attacks from hackers
connect to any OPC-enabled solution created, backed up, and purged—enabling and viruses such as SQL injection (or SQL
to collect data, providing flexibility, time extended use without the need for a data- insertion), Proficy Historian is designed to
savings and reduced costs. base administrator. enforce higher standards of data security. It
does not allow insert, update, or deletion of
Faster Speeds Quick Time to Value data through standard interfaces, and you
can implement security for historians at the
In contrast to the modest performance When installing Proficy Historian, you can
functional group or down at the tag level—a
of relational databases for large data “normalize” the implementation, using stan-
task that would be exceedingly difficult with
sets or associated periods of time, Proficy dard interfaces to decrease implementation
an RDB.
Historian provides much faster read/write time by approximately 50%. You don’t need
performance and “down to the millisecond” to manage or create data “schemas,” trig-
Proficy Historian tracks many of these
resolution for true real-time data. gers, stored procedures or views—resulting
changes by default and helps address strict
in quick installation and configuration
regulatory requirements such as the FDA’s
Proficy Historian is built to store, and more without custom coding or scripting.
21 CFR Part 11 through features such as
importantly, retrieve production/process data Proficy Historian has a pre-built interface
electronic signatures.

Comparison of disk space efficiency

RDB vs. Proficy Historian

40 40
Effective bytes per sample

35
30
25
20 6
15 1.3
10
5
RDB Proficy Historian Proficy Historian
(No compression) (1% compression)
NOTE:
This data represents a specific test on 400,000 samples logged to a standard RDB and Proficy Historian.
Results will vary depending on the raw data set used and the RDB schema employed.

With no compression at all, Proficy Historian offers much higher disk space efficiency than an RDB.
When using a 1% dead band compression, it delivers even greater efficiency for enhanced performance
and reduced maintenance.
Robust Redundancy for High Availability
Proficy Historian offers clustering at the

Firewall
Web
data store much like a relational database, Clients
as well as another level of redundancy at IIS
the collector function. If there are mission- Historian
Proficy Portal Excel
critical data collection points, the collectors OLE DB OPC HDA Client
Applications Add-in
themselves can be configured in a redun-
dant fashion.

The solution also addresses network and

server disruptions through a “store and Cluster Server (Optional)

Applications
GE Proficy Applications
forward” capability, which buffers data at SDK

Custom
• Proficy HMI/SCADA A&E Data
the collector should a disruption occur. The • Proficy Plant Applications
• Proficy Troubleshooter Primary Backup
buffers are eventually uploaded when the Server Plant Server User API
Data
server comes back online with automatic
reconnection—ensuring no data loss.
IHA SQL Server
Open & Layered Philosophy Files Express
Archive Files
We recognize the significant investments
that manufacturing companies have made
in automation, information, and supervisory
control systems.
OPC Alarms Process Other Transformation File Data
& Events Data Historians
That’s why Proficy’s open and layered
approach provides an advantage—enabling
interoperability with third-party solutions Proficy Historian system architecture
for faster time to value. There’s no need for
expensive interfaces and customized code.

Proficy Historian can layer on many

different manufacturers’ controls and HMI/
SCADA platforms, and can even support
embedded applications—unlocking value
and providing the foundation toward a full
operations management solution.

With Proficy Historian, you have access to

an extensive portfolio of performance and
execution applications:
• Advanced visualization and powerful
analytical tools
• Broad range of industry- and application-
specific solutions
• Seamless integration with the full Proficy
platform to truly empower the enterprise

Proficy Historian is the foundation for optimized production and process operations. It offers seamless in-
tegration with a wide range of performance and execution applications within the Proficy software suite.
Proficy Historian 5.0 - The foundation of enterprise operations management

Specifications • Two 100 Mbit TCP/IP-compatible network interface APIs, and Non-Web Administrator, work as 32-bit
adapters for network communication and certain I/O applications on 64-bit Windows operating systems using
Historian Servers drivers (one for public network, another for cluster WoW64 emulation mode (Windows-on Windows 64-bit).
• An Intel Core 2.4 GHz or equivalent AMD CPU with heartbeat network) However, you can read and write data from a 64-bit
minimum 2 GB RAM for a 32-bit Historian Server and 4 Historian Server.
GB RAM for a 64-bit Historian Server NOTE: The configuration of each server added to the
• A DVD-ROM drive cluster must be identical to the other servers in the • Network interface software for network communica-
• 100 MBit TCP/IP-compatible network interface adapter cluster. For more information refer to Microsoft® tion. The TCP/IP network protocol required.
• 80 GB free hard drive space, for the data archives, Windows® Cluster documentation. • One of the following 32 bit or 64 bit SQL Server
message files, buffer files, and log files used by the systems to configure alarm and event archiving:
system – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard, Professional,
Software Requirements or Enterprise Edition
Data Collector nodes • One of the following operating systems, with latest – Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP2, Profes-
• An Intel Core 2.0 GHz or better computer with 1 GB RAM service packs or revisions: sional SP2, or Enterprise Edition SP2
• 40 GB of free hard drive space to store buffered data – Windows Server 2008 R2 – Microsoft SQL Server Express
• A DVD-ROM drive – Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) • One of the following 32 bit versions of SQL Server to
• TCP/IP-compatible network interface adapter for – Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit) use Historian as a linked server:
network communication and certain I/O drivers – Windows Server 2003 R2 – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard, Professional,
Microsoft Cluster service – Windows 7 Professional (32-bit or 64-bit) or Enterprise Edition
• An Intel Core or Xeon 3GHz (or 2GHz Core Duo) or – Windows Vista Professional (32-bit or 64-bit) – Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP2, Profes-
equal AMD CPU with minimum 4 GB RAM – Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit or 64- bit) sional SP2, or Enterprise Edition SP2
• 80 GB of local free hard drive space – Windows XP Embedded (32-bit) – Microsoft SQL Server Express
• 40 GB shared storage - SCSI hard drive with RAID • The Historian Excel Add-In requires installation of
preferred IMPORTANT: Historian 4.7 32-bit components such as Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, or Microsoft
Collectors, Excel Add-in 32-bit, Interactive SQL 32-bit, Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit/64-bit).

For more information, visit www.ge-ip.com/historian

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