GE Digital Proficy Cloud-Native Data Historian available through AWS Marketplace

Summary

April 21, 2022 – GE Digital today announced the availability of the world’s first cloud-native operational data historian available on AWS Marketplace, Proficy Historian for Cloud. This cloud-based industrial data management software is designed to facilitate a simplified and reliable transfer of OT data to the cloud, from the device level to the enterprise. Proficy Historian for Cloud helps companies leverage existing IT investments in the cloud and combine OT and enterprise data. Proficy Historian for Cloud is now available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Proficy Historian is a state-of-the-art historization software solution designed to collect industrial time series and Alarms and Events (A&E) data at very high speed. It stores data with an emphasis on efficiency and security, distributes it, and enables rapid retrieval and analysis, helping businesses generate greater business value. With decades of experience and thousands of successful installations at customers worldwide, Proficy Historian is changing the way businesses operate and compete by making data available for asset and process performance analysis – at equipment, line, plant and enterprise level.

This operational historian provides secure streaming of encrypted OT data to the cloud designed to achieve up to 150,000 values ​​per second per interface and to provide storage and forwarding capabilities to protect against data loss if the cloud or the network is not available. Advanced compression combined with proprietary file-based storage makes it cost-effective to use in a cloud infrastructure. Because it’s built for the cloud, Proficy Historian for Cloud delivers the benefits of cloud-based technologies, including non-downtime upgrades, data replication, and high availability. Native interfaces to data lakes and other cloud-based analytics platforms, combined with enterprise virtual private cloud (VPC) deployment, enable more streamlined data integration, reducing lead time profitability and reducing implementation costs.

Proficy Historian is designed to compress industrial data at source, reducing data transport, compute, and storage resources. Its design allows plant users to query data through tools such as Excel and quickly retrieve data from the last month or 10 years ago. Operational Historians help simplify the task of creating value in the plant by performing aggregations such as returning the average value over a period of time without creating a complex query. They are designed to handle large volumes of continuous process/time series data and provide integrated and reliable data collection tools designed for the industrial use case which includes hundreds of industrial, storage and transfer protocols for manage network instability.

GE Aviation uses Proficy Historian to manage OT data across 32 manufacturing plants. “Managing this amount of data is expensive,” said Bill Andrews, technical product manager at GE Aviation. “By moving from 32 separate deployments to a single deployment of Proficy Historian on AWS, we can significantly reduce management costs and downtime while improving value, scalability and reliability.

The company expects to reduce infrastructure costs by more than 20% and annual resources by $185,000. The team will also improve system availability by eliminating more than a month of planned downtime and implementing a common data store accessible to thousands of employees company-wide.

“Leading industrial companies have made the decision to embrace the cloud,” said Richard Kenedi, general manager of GE Digital’s manufacturing and digital factory businesses. “ERPs, data lakes, analytics tools and even MES solutions are deployed in the cloud. What was missing was the ability to move OT data to the cloud at scale at an affordable cost. Without the ability to consolidate transactional data with OT/process data, the insights possible are limited. The potential remains untapped because the technology that combines the capabilities of an operational historian with a native cloud deployment did not exist until now.

“Industrial customers are asking us for innovative solutions to improve asset reliability, gain deeper insights from operational data, and scale safely in industrial plants,” said Stephen Orban, vice president, AWS Marketplace and Control. Services at AWS. “That’s why we’re thrilled that GE Digital’s Proficy Historian is now available on AWS Marketplace. Whether deployed for a single plant or a fleet of plants, this solution makes it easier for customers to send large operational data to a data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to run analytics big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) at scale.”

About GE Digital

GE Digital is transforming the way our customers solve their toughest challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to bring simplicity, speed and scalability to digital transformation businesses, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough business results. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including network optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps industrial companies in service industries utilities, power generation, oil and gas, aviation and manufacturing to change the way industry works.

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