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Measure, manage, and operationalize your sustainability goals – including decarbonization, energy resources management, and reduced WAGES.
Achieve operations visibility and AI-based optimization, linking plant-floor actions to your enterprise sustainability initiatives.
A system of record to automate accurate GHG data collection, provide valuable insights, and identify ways to reduce carbon emissions
One modular solution to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Reduced operational costs and risks using Digital Twins, machine learning and predictive models
Increased network reliability
Advanced analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability and improved operations
Optimized asset performance to reduce risk and improve safety, reliability, compliance, and efficiency
Optimize assets and processes – from plant-level operations to the enterprise – with self-service process analytics software.
Minimized potential impact of anomalies
Comprehensive visibility of asset health for rapid situational adjustments with quality information
Streamlined mechanical integrity solution to reduce risk, maintain compliance and optimize resources
Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize asset strategies to effectively balance cost and risk
Operational visibility and analysis to reduce asset failures, control costs and increase availability
Performance Intelligence with APM Reliability is your partner in meeting your plant and fleet performance goals.
Predictive analytics software, helps prevent equipment downtime by detecting, diagnosing, forecasting & preventing emerging failures.
The AI-powered product automatically explores the space of operation of gas turbines, builds a machine learning model, and continuously finds the optimal flame temperatures and fuel splits to minimize emissions
BoilerOpt works within existing plant technology to improve boiler productivity and air-fuel ratios in a closed-loop system
Pre-built templates for equipment health monitoring, asset strategies, and process workflows
Operator rounds efficiency and operational impact
Secure and scalable data connectivity, analytics, and application services
End-to-end digital solutions reducing costs, empowering crews, and improving the passenger experience
Addressing fuel usage, carbon emissions, airspace efficiency, predictive maintenance, and more
Increased fuel efficiency and reduced waste
Early detection of aircraft and component degradation
Reduced costs related to disruptions
Visualizations and analytics to help airline decision makers identify waste in an airspace
Fuel efficiency reports, helping airlines operate at peak safety and efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint
Operational excellence and improved safety
Outcomes that move your business forward in fuel, safety, and predictive maintenance
Analysis of multiple flights, routes, and assets across years
Reduced environmental footprint
Services and solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect
Turnkey solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect assets and systems
A globally recognized benchmark for procurement of OT secure products.
Strengthened device security across the development lifecycle
Informed decision making with data and insights from across the enterprise
Native cloud service for a data historian.
Safe and secure management and orchestration of the distribution grid
Network-level optimization with high-performing distribution power applications
Overcome foreseeable load variations
Minimized disruption of service even in extreme weather conditions
Effective management and orchestration to unlock the power of renewables and DERs
AI/ML energy market recommendations to improve profit for renewables and thermal generation assets
Increased output and energy production at times of highest demand
A common network view to ensure electrical integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Accurately model your asset network, support traceability, help assure data completeness, & support integrity management
End-to-end network connectivity modeling and data workflow management
Software designed to help grid operators orchestrate the grid
Increased efficiency and reduced costs
Secure-by-design connectivity and certification management, and faster operator response
Faster operator response and increased efficiency
Centralized visualization and configuration, digitized processes and intelligence
Full visualization and control seamlessly across devices, including phones, tablets and desktops
Best practices and proven deployment learnings
In-depth understanding of how GE Digital software can help your operations
Holistic performance management for today’s connected enterprise
Management of fast-moving processes as well as slower moving, labor-intensive jobs
Cost savings with improved manufacturing overall equipment effectiveness
Batch automation, regardless of the underlying equipment
Data analysis for quick identification of defects and better optimization of processes
Unified manufacturing data from disparate systems to better meet changing consumer demands
Procedures managed in an electronic format for consistency and predictability
Optimized production with better planning
Improved throughput with greater efficiency and lower costs
Materials to help you better understand GE Digital software and its robust functionality
Integrated solutions for improved efficiency and sustainability while supporting business growth
Mobile operator access to essential on-site HMI monitoring and control functions
Enable remote staffing, flexible resourcing and centralized monitoring across facilities
Boost worker productivity, automate tasks, keep safety first
Energy management for the zero carbon grid
Reliable mobilization of network assets to ensure maximum transmission of energy from multiple sources
Integrated solutions suite for energy market management
Decentralized data collection, data volume handling, and remote management
Getting the most benefit out of digitization and industrial IoT
Services that deliver best-in-class results
Rapid digital transformation wins based on industry-proven value cases and ROI
Best practices for your industrial processes to help build and maintain operational resilience
GE Digital’s expert service and support teams create value and deliver on business objectives
Expert service and support teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
Improved efficiencies, optimized production and quality and reduced unplanned downtime
Increased reliability and availability, minimized costs, and reduced operational risks
Increased value from your equipment, process data, and business models
Facilitate documentation between airlines and lessors
Reduced costs related to disruptions with real-time visibility
The cornerstone of your journey to operational excellence
Operational excellence including improved reliability, reduced costs and managed risk
GridOS, the first grid software portfolio designed for grid orchestration
Reduced operational costs and risks using predictive models
Enhanced overall situational awareness
Field-connected operations and management
One modular solution that enables grid operators to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Operational efficiency and reduction in build costs while meeting regulatory regulations
Reduced operational and new build costs and improved field inspection productivity
A holistic picture of the grid, reducing cost and complexity from traditional inspection approaches
Optimized operations to best meet changing consumer needs
Reduced variability and improved operations.
In-depth understanding of our software and its functionality
A clear a path to operational transformation
Maintain consistent quality and reduce cost per ton
Optimized costs and improved reliability while reducing risk to keep your teams and communities safe
Streamlined end-to-end operations driving high-volume, high-quality production
GE Digital software is the backbone of modern plant operations
Improved reliability, increased availability, and reduced O&M costs
AI/ML to make your gas turbine's fuel and air controls smarter
Increase energy production at times of highest demand without costly maintenance adders or adversely impacting the maintenance interval
Operate from anywhere with secure remote/mobile operator controls
Inclusive outsourcing services that deliver best-in-class results
Achieve digital transformation
Expert service teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
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Analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability & improved operations
A common network view to ensure integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Mission critical software to better operate, optimize and analyze your work to deliver results
Locate the best partners to meet your needs
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More efficient and secure electric grid, greater sustainability and waste reduction
Solutions for today, scale for tomorrow
Increased reliability and reduced reactive maintenance leading to higher efficiency and reduced costs
Using Digital Twin blueprints, GE's Industrial Managed Services team monitors 7,000+ global assets
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Understand how our software and services help our customers solve today's toughest challenges
Experienced team dedicated to customer success
Success stories and product updates from the world of Electrification Software
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White papers, product overviews, and other content to help you put your industrial data to work
Experience in leading edge software development and business working with best-in-class leaders
Understand how Electrification software and services helps our customers solve today's toughest challenges
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In today’s rapidly changing industrial landscape, manufacturers and utilities must embrace modern HMI/SCADA and digital transformation to keep up with the pace of change, meet growing operations challenges, and remain competitive. HMI/SCADA software runs industrial plants around the world, helping operators to make critical decisions to run machinery.
Operators using new, high performance HMI/SCADA software can spend less time navigating, find critical data faster, and increase productivity.
Technological innovations are reshaping the industrial landscape. These innovations include cheap sensors, a high-speed telecom infrastructure that can move huge amounts of data, unprecedented computation power, mobile and touch interfaces, and a standards-based open ecosystem for interoperability. This ecosystem includes web-based technologies, APIs for connectivity, machine learning, and Industrial AI.
Industrial organizations are also dealing with high rates of retirement of aging workers who have deep knowledge and expertise. These individuals are being replaced by younger workers who lack the same knowledge but are digital natives with skills and experience with mobile devices and web-based technologies.
Technology suppliers in the automation ecosystem have the challenge and opportunity to help industrial companies cope with these changes while achieving their desired outcomes. The starting point for many companies is the implementation of a modern HMI/SCADA software solution.
A HMI/SCADA is a category of software-based control system architecture that uses networked data to provide operators with a graphical user interface that allows them to monitor the performance of many pieces of equipment and issue process commands and settings. This can be accomplished from a dedicated screen, mobile device, or any PC connected to the control network through a web browser.
HMI/SCADA allows operators to improve situational awareness, the mobility of visualization anytime and anywhere, and important equipment control, which provides form a centralized view of operations.
HMI/SCADA collects data from RTUs (Remote Terminal Units), PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), and other control devices such as flow meters and temperature controllers. This data is presented to an operator using a Human Machine Interface (HMI). The HMI allows the operator to see what is going on in the plant in real time, including custom mimic displays, alarms, trends, etc., to make decisions to adjust any machine controls or settings.
HMI/SCADA can also be connected to other technologies, such as a data historian to allow for historical trending and other analysis. In fact, the foundation starts with capturing industrial data, combining it with other meaningful data sources for context and managing a historic record. It is data, turned into information, that provides the basis for meaningful outcomes.
Modern HMI/SCADA, including data historian and centralized visualization technologies, empower users to unlock the value of their data. The outcome is a high-productivity development and visualization environment that enables optimized plant operations, supported by faster development, a democratization of tools and capabilities throughout a plant, improved operational performance, lower costs, a changed mindset among employees, and a culture of continuous improvement.
The modern HMI/SCADA lets you guide newer operators through the right steps to take. And you can enable mobility and remote monitoring for greater efficiency. Welcome to the modern HMI/SCADA system—where machines, data, insights, and people are connected.
The advent of connectedness has brought about incredible opportunities for industry. Today, industrial machines and equipment are connected seamlessly to create and share a wealth of data.
Operators in manufacturing environments often have oversight over many pieces of equipment. HMI and SCADA solutions allow them to precisely monitor, control, and visualize every aspect of their operations in a centralized manner. With a quick glance, operators know what's important and the right actions to drive increased efficiency and reduced costs.
HMI/SCADA provides faster response for operators and faster development for engineers.
With the increased visibility that HMI/SCADA affords, there are many applications for its use. Industrial processes such as those in manufacturing or power generation, infrastructure processes like water treatment or oil and gas pipelines, and facility processes like those that control heating and ventilation are all good uses for HMI/SCADA.
Subaru is the America’s fastest-growing auto manufacturer. They leverage their HMI/SCADA solution to give them visibility into real-time data across the plant, which has led to significant improvements around uptime and efficiency. By broadening their use across the supply chain, Subaru is continuing to multiply the impact from their HMI/SCADA use.
The City of Haverhill Water Division provides drinking water to 58,000 residents and businesses and produces and average of two billion gallons of water each year. The water plant is manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure the highest quality water is delivered. What began as manually documented processes have been transformed into a much more efficient software-based mobile operation powered by HMI/SCADA. This has given the plant much more flexibility as the team is able to see everything that’s happening at the plant from a remote location and be alerted to changes in the water operations without a strain on human capital. In addition, they’ve seen great efficiency gains and an immense performance improvement over their documented processes.
Copersucar, the largest Brazilian exporter of sugar and ethanol, is redesigning their processes, reformulating their operation, and facilitating decision making to keep their operations modern and efficient. For the company’s products to reach customers in multiple countries, it is necessary to have a complex logistics infrastructure, integrated by their own and contracted shipment terminals and storage, in addition to an extensive outsources road, train, and sea transport network. With automation technology and the collection of historical data and the integration of the systems made the teams use their time in a more efficient way. The terminal operators could focus on the guarantee of operational efficiency, instead of spending their time collecting and the analyzing manual data as previously required. Operators now work in much more organized and logical physical and operational environment. This increases productivity and operational safety.
In today’s connected industry, HMI/SCADA is just one of many industrial technologies adding value to and enhancing industrial capabilities. With HMI/SCADA, industrial companies can precisely monitor, control, and visualize every aspect of their operations for intelligent control. I invite you to learn more about the high-performance HMI/SCADA technology in iFIX and CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA, part of the Proficy portfolio. With a quick glance, operators know what's important and the right actions to drive increased efficiency and reduced costs.
Global Marketing Manager - Proficy, GE Digital
A well-known thought leader and speaker in industrial software, Bernard Cubizolles has worked with hundreds of companies around the world, helping them use OT systems to achieve real value from the Industrial Internet. With software and mobile solutions, Bernard believes infrastructure and manufacturing executives can transform big data into actionable information and knowledge. He has served at GE, Siemens and other leading companies and holds a PhD in Applied Physics.
Java-based HMI/SCADA systems offer an OS-independent product. However, some Java-based HMI/SCADA systems do come with disadvantages. Understand the potential risks of Java-based HMI/SCADA versus solutions such as GE Digital's iFIX and CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA.