Announcing Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX 5.5

Drive results faster by building and enhancing your HMI/SCADA solutions more rapidly than ever!

Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX 5.5 includes over 20 new features that deliver faster development, superior performance, enhanced reliability, expanded Proficy integration, new runtime options and more. With version 5.5, iFIX continues to deliver more core features, which enable you to build simple and/or comprehensive intelligent control and achieve high-visibility solutions for your operations.

What is Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX?

Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX is a client/server-based HMI/SCADA solution offering scan driven operation. iFIX is an ideal solution for all applications while offering enhanced operation in large process oriented environments. iFIX offers special fit functionality for applications and industries including: Water and Waste Water, Pharmaceutical, BioTech, Oil and Gas and Power Distribution.

iFIX has been delivering solutions to customers in nearly every industry and every corner of the globe for decades. GE Intelligent Platforms has continued to invest heavily in the updates and improvements that keep iFIX delivering on what our customers need the most – even as their businesses have changed over that time. 

The robust iFIX SCADA engine makes it ideally suited to process-oriented applications requiring consistent performance and known response times. It provides advanced 21 CFR Part 11 capabilities for regulated industries. Based on an advanced Client/Server distributed and open architecture, it easily and quickly integrates with your existing operation and offers a broad range of additional features. 

Building on a track record of success and continual enhancements, the latest release of Proficy HMI / SCADA – iFIX from GE Intelligent Platforms is here and takes SCADA to the next level! iFIX is a superior proven real time information management and SCADA solution that is open, flexible and scalable which includes impressive next-generation visualizations, a reliable control engine, a powerful built in historian and more! Like never before, this best-in-class supervisory monitoring and control software enables you to drive better analytics and leverage more reliability, flexibility and scalability across your enterprise. 

Why iFIX?

• iFIX is a proven scalable solution which can operate on a single node or scale up to 200+ nodes
• Although iFIX has the ability to connect to most any device via a third party OPC server, most major brands of PLC's do not require a third party OPC server because of iFIX's built in drivers
• iFIX is completely hardware independent and provides the flexibility of communicating with multiple makes of hardware from a single server.
• The new v5.0 Fluent Ribbon User Interface in the development 'WorkShop' environment enables you to deploy solutions faster then the competition
• VBA Scripting enables easy connections to IT level systems and VBA is one of the most used computer languages in the world
• Out of the box, you get the best in class full featured SCADA system along with enhanced failover and historian integration that is simple to develop and easy to maintain
• You can upgrade from previous iFIX versions with ease
• E-signature functionality is the best in the business

iFIX delivers:

1. Flexibility and reliability of connecting and presenting data
2. Scalability from isolated sensor to company-wide integration
3. Best in class information analysis
4. Real-time data management and control
5. Adherence to compliance and industry standards for improved consistency and quality


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