How to Make the Most of Production Data

ServiTecno distributes in Italy GE’s Proficy Operations Hub, a modern and centralised environment that allows you to quickly and easily develop industrial applications that simplify and improve the understanding of production data.

GE Digital’s Proficy Operations Hub, distributed and supported in Italy by ServiTecno, is a centralised environment for aggregating and visualising all relevant information for improving industrial operations. Thanks to this platform, companies can quickly and easily develop industrial applications that enable the typical processes of data-driven companies, i.e. the continuous improvement of production activities thanks to complete information that is easy to analyse and act upon, regardless of the location. The development tools provided by Proficy Operations Hub do not require you to write code and allow you to quickly and easily “assemble” high-performance web-based applications that aggregate production data and enable collaboration and continuous improvement. With Proficy Operations Hub, teams across all levels in an organization can increase operational efficiency and make better decisions based on real-time and historical plant-wide application data, including historian, MES, analytics, and third party.

A better collaboration between business departments

Proficy Operations Hub improves collaboration between different business departments by providing an easily accessible cross-departmental digital operations hub. With centralised visualisation, digitisation of processes, contextual data analysis and practical task lists generated in real time, the platform enables faster response to events and improved decision-making. In fact, Proficy Operations Hub also allows you to trigger automatic actions based on human events or data from production devices and systems. The design of screens to display operations data does not require any special IT skills, is simple, fast and, being based on web technology, allows responsive pages to be generated that adapt to the client device. The result is a significant reduction in time-to-market and in the cost of implementing and maintaining applications. Leveraging web technology and open standards such as OPC UA for interoperability, Proficy Operations Hub reduces deployment and maintenance time.

Increased performance is one of the highlights

The new version 2.0 offers 60% faster configuration with a more user-friendly interface. Data analysis capabilities have been enhanced by 40%, thanks to new widgets and improved trend analysis. Performance has been improved by 100%, thanks to improvements in the query interface and data distribution system. The number of clients that can be managed by a server has also been significantly increased: now up to 1,000 clients on a single server. Thanks to OPC UA support, the platform can integrate effectively and efficiently with third-party systems. Other new features of version 2.0 include tighter integration with the Proficy family of applications, more options for additional connectivity, including the ability to move pages between apps, and improved trend widgets. With Proficy Operations Hub 2.0 also comes Quick Start for Proficy Operations Hub, the service that enables all customers to accelerate the transition from a traditional user interface to a modern web-based visualisation, providing both plant personnel and management with quick visibility, timely understanding and immediately actionable information.