Fully Integrated Process Control System Offers Flexibility
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GE Fanuc Automation’s Proficy process-control systems are fully integrated and said to provide customers with improved quality and reliability as well asÌýincreased throughput, performance and efficiency. The foundation of the system is a hardware and software infrastructure designed to combine the benefits ofÌýtraditional distributed control systems (DCS) and PLC/HMI systems. The company’s multi-disciplined PACSystems controllers can accommodate process, discrete and motion-control applications to provide flexibility in users’ control systems.
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The architecture of the system is highly scalable both in system size and functionality, allowing users to implement applications of virtually anyÌýscope. The system’s Engineering Workstation provides an integrated development environment that centralizes project engineering, including control strategies, alarm and I/O configuration, process graphics development, historian configuration and system-change management.
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