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Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX 5.8: GE Intelligent Platforms

The document summarizes new features in iFIX 5.8 and 5.9 including: 1) iFIX 5.8 enhances performance, reliability, and security with improvements to failover, maintenance mode, encryption, and newer OS support. It also adds dynamic graphics resolution and efficient rendering. 2) iFIX 5.9 introduces a new graphical engine with anti-aliasing, Microsoft Office 2016 themes, time lapse playback of historical data, and Windows Server 2016/SQL 2016 support. 3) Both versions offer licensing options, updated tools, and documentation.

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Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX 5.8: GE Intelligent Platforms

The document summarizes new features in iFIX 5.8 and 5.9 including: 1) iFIX 5.8 enhances performance, reliability, and security with improvements to failover, maintenance mode, encryption, and newer OS support. It also adds dynamic graphics resolution and efficient rendering. 2) iFIX 5.9 introduces a new graphical engine with anti-aliasing, Microsoft Office 2016 themes, time lapse playback of historical data, and Windows Server 2016/SQL 2016 support. 3) Both versions offer licensing options, updated tools, and documentation.

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Proficy HMI/SCADA – GE Intelligent Platforms

iFIX 5.8

For GE and Authorized Partners Only


Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX
5.8 At a Glance

Main Customer Benefits Reliability & Security

Product Core enhancements that deliver: Failover Enhancements


• Speed of Alarm Distribution on Failover
• Enhanced Performance & Scalability
• Maintenance Mode improvements
• Greater Reliability & Security
• Support for I/O Driver Access timeout on Failover
• RtOI Ready
• Newer OS Support Security Enhancements
• Encrypted Authentication key for iFIX Network
• Support for 256-bit Encryption for Webspace
Enhanced Performance & Scalability Sessions
• Sandboxing feature for Webspace sessions
Dynamic Resolution Support for iFIX Graphics
• Support for deploying iFIX Graphics on Wide Screen RtOI Ready
monitors, LCD TVs and different aspect ratio Screens
• SCADA publishing to the Model
• Ability to move iFIX graphics from one resolution
• Support for Read/Write to iFIX from Workflow
to another
Efficient Rendering of iFIX Run time Graphics
• Reduces the CPU usage of iFIX Graphics Newer OS Support
• Reduce CPU usage of Background Graphics

For GE and Authorized Partners Only


iFIX 5.9

For GE and Authorized Partners Only


What’s new with iFIX 5.9 at a glance

New Graphical Engine! New Capabilities! Richer Options!

• New Picture SmoothShapes • Time Lapse Playback of historical • Server tiers added to licensing
Property provides anti-aliasing data options (1500, 10K, 30K)
• Microsoft Office 2016 Themes • All High Performance graphics • Bundled with Historian 7.0
available via Quick Access from 5.8 SP2 and other SIMs Essentials
toolbar and refreshed ribbon bar installed
icons • Web HMI 2.0 support
• New FIX VBA properties and
methods • Updated third-party tools
included
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
& Microsoft SQL 2016 support • Updated documentation

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4
Installer Updates

• Full program installation - Silent


installation option now available
• Productivity Pack now an option
- post installation
• Historian Essentials on the
same or a different machine

Note: Workflow trigger removed from ISO for 5.9

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Workspace Options – Office 2016 look and feel

• To access, launch Workspace Button and select


Options
• Select Popular, and chose from:
– Color scheme
– Accent color
– Background
– Screentip style

• Setup menu shortcuts with Quick Access


• Access GE Resources

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Completely updated menu tool bar icons

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New Picture Property for anti-aliasing

SmoothShapes Property
• Set to true for all new pictures for anti-aliasing (line smoothing)
• Open old pictures in 5.9 and you can toggle to True and re-save
• Allows you to test layouts before accepting

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Global Time Control – Added Historical Playback Mode

You can “playback” a


historical event in R/T
mode

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Global Time Control – Enabling Historical Playback Mode

1. Use Historical dynamo and link to a Historian 2, Use any Historian Mode EXCEPT Current Value
tag

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Global Time Control – Enabling Historical Playback Mode

3. From Run Mode, select Historical, then 4. Select Enable Playback and pick Start and
Configuration, and Select Enable Playback End Time OR Define Duration.

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Global Time Control – Enabling Historical Playback Mode

5. Select either By Speed and pick a 6. By Frame Size and Adjust


speed from drop down list OR your frame size

Whatever you pick, when you move your


cursor and change focus, the control
provides feedback on what you will see in
terms of:
• # of frames you will see
• Frame size (Historical length of time for
each frame)
• Playback time (how long in real-time
each frame stays current before it is
updated with a new query to Historian)
• Total Time (based on your Time
Definition above)
• And Speed (same as By Speed)

For GE and Authorized Partners Only


Historian & iFIX on Separate Nodes

Historian client tools 7.0 are required to


be installed on the iFIX SCADA and view
nodes to gain connectivity to a remote
Historian.
You may also find it useful to install the
Historian Administrator on your iFIX node.

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