Proficy HMI/SCADA –

CIMPLICITY
Maximizing the power of your information, Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY
helps you visualize plant floor operations, perform supervisory automation
and deliver reliable production data to higher-level analytic applications.

Key Technical Benefits CIMPLICITY is a client/server reduced waste, improved ­ llows users to perform devel-
a
based HMI/SCADA s­ olution quality, faster time-to-market opment online, including build-
Easy application that collects and shares and increased profitability. ing graphics and adding points
real-time and historical data to local or distributed servers.
­development
across all business levels Features and
and deployment and provides ­actionable 6 CIMPLICITY Advanced
Functions
­visibility to monitor and Viewer is an option on the
Seamless scalability ­control plant processes, CIMPLICITY Viewer that offers
equipment and resources. Flexibility and Scalability
with a true client/server direct connection to OPC data
CIMPLICITY is highly flexible sources—allowing for point
architecture and can be applied as a small
Its process visualization, data solutions and the ability to
acquisition and ­supervisory solution or can be architected visualize OPC data without
Tight integration with control provide a solid and to provide a high-performance configuring the server.
Proficy software suite reliable data foundation enterprise solution.
for digitized operations 6 Proficy HMI/SCADA –
Open system design ­management. 6 The Proficy HMI/SCADA – ­ IMPLICITY WebView is a thin
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to protect your current CIMPLICITY Viewer is the CIMPLICITY client solution for
CIMPLICITY provides operators standard CIMPLICITY client. distributing information to
investments
and engineers with the power Serving as a traditional PC- many users—enabling you to
and security to precisely based client, it is installed locally send CIMPLICITY information
Change-based monitor and control every and accesses data from a local and view operator screens
execution architecture aspect of their manufactur- or remote server. ­Applications over the Internet or Intranet
ing environment, equipment you can run include real-time with no Internet server setup
and resources. The result is a graphics, trending, alarming or deployment effort.
faster response to equipment and reporting. A CIMPLICITY
operation issues—enabling ­Development Viewer option

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 CIMPLICITY
Viewers

CIMPLICITY
Advanced Viewer

OPC

OPC

Cable redundancy
for devices

Mobile Viewers
ThinView

CIMPLICITY Servers
Simple or Redundant

Device Connectivity
Remote Viewers, WebView Native Drivers and OPC
or Terminal Services

CIMPLICITY is a highly scalable solution that can run in a simple or redundant architecture with a wide variety of viewer or client options to offer flexibility when
architecting your solution, providing you with more control over how and where you view your data.

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­ IMPLICITY ThinView is a
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CIMPLICITY client solution that
allows you to display CIMPLIC-
access to their screens and the
CIMPLICITY Server with full use
of CIMPLICITY Viewer technol-
ogy, ActiveX controls and third-
plication so you don’t need to
start with a blank page, saving
you hours of setup time.
“ Dell needs a measure
of closed-loop control, but the
business logic is too complex
to reside completely within

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ITY screens on a PDA or smart party content. 6 Screen Navigation helps the SCADA layer. CIMPLICITY
phone device, providing the operators easily locate the had the components to meet
ultimate in remote viewing Development Productivity – correct screens. Using a drag- the challenge.
capability. Reduced Time to Solution and-drop interface, you can
Richard Brown
CIMPLICITY comes with a pow- create a hierarchical menu Development Manager, Dell Global
6 Proficy HMI/SCADA – erful set of development tools that appears in your tool bar, Manufacturing, Finance,
and capabilities to help you and Supply Chain
­ IMPLICITY Terminal Server
C and colors and fonts can be
Viewer is a thin client and web build your application quickly configured so that screens can
solution that uses the Microsoft and easily. follow themes.
Terminal Server technology and
6 Application Wizard guides
provides the capabilities of a
standard CIMPLICITY Viewer— you through the steps of get-
providing users with complete ting started with your new ap-

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 You can easily create navigation menus for your application.
­

Powerful APIs allow you to 6 Scalable Screens allow you 6 Scripting extends 6 Dynamic Measurement
develop your own direct to modify dimensions of the ­ IMPLICITY capabilities and
C Systems enable you to
CIMPLICITY screens without re- tailors the individual applica- develop projects and dynami-
interfaces with the data
drawing graphics. CIMView will tions according to specific cally switch between different
and alarm information scale the screens for various needs. Scripts can be executed measurement systems with a
collected, managed, and devices, so you don’t need to based on process events such simple point and click.
maintained by ­CIMPLICITY. develop new screens for differ- as changing the value of a
ent display sizes. point, a specific alarm state or 6 Dynamic Screen
This design provides
can be based on time of day. L­ ocalization enables a
seamless integration of 6 Symbols and Objects Library CIMPLICITY application to be
custom or third-party features an extensive library 6 Linked Objects allow you to adapted to accommodate mul-
­applications. of symbols, along with the create master objects as tem- tiple users who speak different
powerful SmartObjects feature plates and have those objects languages.
that allows for easy applica- created and used identically
tion creation and maintenance. on multiple screens. The ob- 6 Alarm Viewer is an ActiveX
With SmartObjects, you can jects can contain graphics and object that can be embed-
create your own custom ob- scripts and are linked to the ded into screens to create a
jects and easily drag and drop master object—automatically single, seamless interface for
them into the screens. replicating when changes are your process.
made to the master.
6 Powerful Object Model Ease of Commissioning
provides an external interface 6 System Points provide Once your project is devel-
to CIMEdit and CIMView to ­pre-defined information oped, the next task is going
extend the capabilities of the for your applications such live with it. CIMPLICITY offers
system. You can drive behavior as project and computer­ tools for deploying and trou-
through a powerful API to ­information, date and time, bleshooting during the critical
integrate with ERP and other and alarms. commissioning phase.
external systems.

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CIMPLICITY offers a variety of value-adding options such as SPC charts to monitor process quality.

6 Deployment Server tion and alarm configuration tion and process information. CIMPLICITY provides
­ liminates the need to manu-
e of your system without config- CIMPLICITY supports logging to
superior reliability and
ally copy the application files uring a single graphics screen. Proficy Historian, Proficy SQL,
Microsoft SQL and Oracle.
availability for the most
to the viewers, as updated
application files can be placed 6 Point Cross Reference demanding industrial
in the application server, and ­ nables you to easily locate
e 6 Trending allows you to applications—maximizing
the viewers will automatically where various point data is be- analyze data collected by the uptime and continuous
detect changes and update ing used to facilitate trouble- CIMPLICITY system or other
control for increased pro-
the files without user interac- shooting your application. third-party software packages.
tion. Running viewers will have You can compare current ductivity and profitability.
the option to update live dis- Operational Productivity and trends with historical trends
plays automatically or ask the Process Improvement to quickly identify and correct
operator when to update. 6 Database Logger provides process malfunctions; Quick-
the ability to choose how and trends provide a fast, easy way
6 Point Control Panel allows where you want to store your to select any point and trend it
you to verify the data collec- critical and valuable produc- with no configuration.

Deploy changes quickly and easily with CIMPLICITY’s Deployment tool.

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 A powerful troubleshooting tool, DGR allows you to play back from a point in time, or you can have the DGR search for
conditions in the data and automatically set start and stop times based on those settings to determine the cause of events.

6 Digital Graphical Replay can collect data from virtually 6 Change Management
(DGR) lets you go back in any third-party device. increases the security of your
time and graphically analyze system, provides you with revi-
events that occurred in the 6 Change-Based Execution sion control of your projects
past. Using data that is logged Architecture enables you to and offers powerful disaster
in Proficy Historian or SQL acquire data from field devices recovery capabilities.
Server, you can replay graphi- (either polled or via unsolicited
cal screens to determine the communications), perform 6 Action Calendar gives you
cause of events or alarms. database math and logic, the power to create, maintain
archive data, network data and execute a calendar sched-
6 Statistical Process Control and run scripts—all based on ule of manufacturing events
(SPC) provides tools for data change—unlike other products and corresponding actions.
measurement and analysis, as that offer a scanned execution This allows controlling lights,
well as process improvements environment. heat and equipment based on
and quality control. Collect a pre-defined schedule.
data from sensors or manual 6 CIMPLICITY Host Redundancy

input, receive alerts for prob- provides for the failover from 6 System Sentry provides
lem conditions (i.e., out of a primary computer to a sec- real-time information about
control) and use analysis tools ondary computer in case the the health of the computers
to pinpoint the problem. primary computer fails, sup- and the CIMPLICITY application
porting redundancy at several within a network—immediately
Reliability, High Availability levels to minimize the effect of alerting you to problem condi-
and Performance any failure. tions and providing tools to
6 Powerful Data Collection pinpoint the cause. l
enables you to connect to 6 Dynamic Configuration
hundreds of other systems and allows you to make changes,
devices. Through native drivers modifications and updates to
and standard communication running CIMPLICITY projects
interfaces such as OPC, you without shutting down.

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