GE Digital Unveils Product Upgrades to Help Customers Unlock Industrial IoT Opportunities

Predix Essentials, Asset Answers and Webspace 6.0 help industrial companies to more easily access remote monitoring, predictive analytics, benchmarking and mobility capabilities

AUSTIN, TX – September 24, 2019 – At its user conference in Austin, TX, GE Digital today announced significant enhancements across its industry-leading software portfolio that make it possible for companies to more easily and effectively operate their plants, analyze industrial data and optimize their operations. 

The product updates include: Predix Essentials, which makes it easier for industrial companies to connect, visualize and analyze their data; Asset Answers, which helps customers understand the competitive potential of Asset Performance Management (APM) software, and Webspace 6.0 – a new HTML5 interface that seamlessly brings automation data to operators across any mobile device.

Providing Edge-to-Cloud Accessibility with Predix Essentials

Predix Essentials is an easy-to-use SaaS solution, helping companies connect to disparate data sources, monitor operations and leverage edge-to-cloud predictive analytics quickly and easily – reducing time to value for operational teams looking to reduce waste, lower costs and increase performance.  

Developed in partnership with a number of customers, including silicon chip manufacturer Intel,Predix Essentials is a natural first step for industrial businesses looking to leverage the power of cloud-based Industrial IoT technologies, providing the connectivity, visualization and analysis capabilities that are the cornerstones of a digital transformation journey, regardless of vertical or maturity.

Suitable for industrial companies of all kinds, Predix Essentials is also the foundation of GE Digital’s APM and OPM application suites, providing core functionality and bridging the entire software portfolio by connecting GE Digital cloud-based solutions to on-premises data from its Automation, MES and Historian solutions.

Identifying Maintenance Strategies with Asset Answers

Asset Answers is a powerful benchmarking tool that helps customers quickly import and assess data to better understand how their asset maintenance compares with similar companies in their particular domain, or even against their own internal performance across sites.

With this intelligence, customers can determine where best to invest in updating maintenance regimes or capabilities, and ultimately provide a seamless path to products like APM to manage and optimize assets across their business. Asset Answers is available for many sectors, including power generation, oil and gas and chemicals.

Improving Operator Mobility with Webspace 6.0

Webspace 6.0, a web and mobility solution, brings the full visualization and control capabilities from GE’s iFIX and CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA software seamlessly across devices, including smartwatches, phones, tablets and desktops.

Offering enhanced encryption and new zero-install HTML5 client, Webspace 6.0 improves the way that operators receive and react to operational insights, whether they are in the field, on the plant floor or at a desk, providing them the flexibility to make informed decisions and share their expertise, regardless of location. By dynamically extending automation solutions, Webspace 6.0 increases information sharing across teams, speeds the right operator actions, and improves agility with real-time visualization and control anywhere, anytime.

“GE Digital continues to release innovations that forge the way for industrial customers working on transforming their operations,” said Pat Byrne, CEO of GE Digital.

Predix Essentials, Asset Answers and Webspace 6.0 are generally available today as part of GE Digital’s portfolio of industrial software products covering HMI/SCADA, Historian, Asset Performance Management and Manufacturing Execution System applications. Today’s announcements build on a strong thread of recent investments in product innovations, all designed to solve a broad range of industrial customer challenges, including iFIX 6.0; Historian 7.2, Plant Applications 8.0 and Predix Manufacturing Data Cloud for the manufacturing sector; Grid Analytics for the power transmission and distribution market; and APM Integrity’s Compliance Management for the O&G and Power Generation industries.