Aiding in the effort to extract more information from existing assets, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announced two applications that analyze process variations and offer what-if predictive analysis.
The company announced today the availability of Proficy Troubleshooter, software that analyzes process variations during manufacturing, and Proficy Cause+, a decision support tool that can address red flags with real-time corrective action.
The two new options depend on the company’s Proficy Historian, now in version 3.5, also announced today, that collects, archives, and distributes plant floor process information. Troubleshooter builds multivariate models based on time- or continuous process data, index-based discrete and/or batch process data, and simulation scenarios.
“In the past, we have had reporting tools that gave us an information baseline,” said John Leppiaho, product general manager for GE Fanuc’s Operations Management Software, in a statement. “Now we can apply analytics to that data and do ‘what-if’ scenarios to model the process for a solution more effective in driving real process improvement.”