The first spreadsheet dates back to 1978, but the first real version is from 1985: exactly 30 years ago.

Today it is still used in some realities for the production of reports and for archiving data, but it is clear that there are new solutions for data management and related reporting/analysis in the INDUSTRY 4.0 era.

GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian, is a solution that allows you to acquire, archive and distribute the numerous information relating to the industrial process with extreme simplicity. Proficy Historian contextualize the raw data and aggregates them into islands of information, offering the possibility to make informed and fast decisions, to increase productivity and reduce costs.

The solution offers easy access to Big Data and information from across the manufacturing environment and an integrated and accurate view of all manufacturing activities. Instant access to historical data allows you to compare past data and production cycles, analyze data prior to downtime and trace an ideal production cycle. The new 6.0 release of Proficy Historian is enriched with new features: distributed processing, no longer tied to a single server; Possibility of duplicate data (mirroring) on ​​different nodes; administration console accessible from the web with dashboard for diagnostics; interactive configuration management; language expression support Python in data collectors; ability to read and write data from Proficy Historian on programs written in Java.

read…THE 6 MOST COMMON USES OF HISTORIAN

The add-on Profitable Historian Analysis offers the possibility of doing remote analysis for data aggregation, export and sharing with a completely renewed interface based on HTML5.

 

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