ge fanuc introduces proficy™ software to the rapidly evolving gulf market
New partnership with Hyperion, a globally experienced Solutions Provider with application expertise in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Metals and Utilities sectors
GE Fanuc Automation, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has launched the latest Proficy™ Software solutions in the Gulf Region. GE Fanuc Automation has been actively involved with the Control, Safety and Automation of the Oil & Gas, Utilities and manufacturing sector in the Gulf over the last 20 years. With the market transforming rapidly due to the increased inward investment from global companies, and local companies themselves expanding worldwide, the scale and complexity of the enterprise has grown manyfold. Managing the real time production information is key for these enterprises, to maintain competitiveness, to possess the agility to respond to changing scenarios and to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. The globally successful Proficy Software suite brings the proven, open and scalable software technology for such applications in a standard suite that can be configured to the requirements of the Industry or Enterprise, delivering results in the shortest time while improving quality, maximising efficiency and leveraging existing investments.
“Proficy Software encompasses an integrated suite of applications providing execution, logistics, quality, tracking, reporting and visibility throughout all of a company’s plant operations on any scale,” commented John Pritchard, President - GE Fanuc Automation Solutions Europe. “Companies in the Gulf region are now demanding the sort of consolidated information at CEO level that Proficy can deliver. We are expecting strong demand for this state-of-the-art software, which will help companies to optimise operational performance, gain operational visibility, and maximise uptime and productivity.”
“We have also entered into an agreement with Hyperion Systems Engineering to be a local solutions partner,” continued Pritchard. “Hyperion will focus in particular on its areas of expertise, in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Metals and other industries such as Utilities. We are delighted that Hyperion has agreed this joint initiative to expand the sales of our Proficy Software suite into the Gulf Region.”
“We at Hyperion are excited to be selected as a solutions provider partner for Proficy software in the region,” said Dr. Symeon Kassianides, founder and CEO, Hyperion Systems Engineering. “Headquartered in Cyprus, and well established in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other key locations around the globe, Hyperion is well placed to gain success with Proficy across a range of industries in the Gulf.”
The Proficy family of products includes: Proficy Tracker, Proficy Plant Applications, Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY and iFIX, as well as Proficy Historian, Proficy Change Management and Proficy Real-Time Information Portal. Pharmaceutical manufacture and Food and Beverage production are other examples of industries where tracking and quality assurance are key requirements, and thus will benefit from the introduction of Proficy.
Proficy™ Plant Applications 4.3 was recently awarded the prestigious ‘Product of the Year’ award from ‘Plant Engineering’ magazine. Proficy Plant Applications v4.3 focuses on Efficiency, Quality, Production Execution, Genealogy and Batch Analysis to enable visibility across process, discrete and hybrid environments. With Proficy Plant Applications, companies can gain clear insight into their operations to efficiently manage to peak performance. This latest version (4.3) is designed to help users deploy Production Management systems faster and easily expand existing systems to tackle business challenges – increasing quality, throughput and compliance while decreasing cost, time to value and risk.
