What's new in CitectSCADA
CitectSCADA V6.0 has a number of major new exciting features, including: an innovative tool for analyzing alarms and trends; zero-maintenance Web Client; support for true color; hundreds of new symbols; longer tag names, time-stamped data and custom alarm filters.
What's New in V6.0?
- Process Analyst
- Web Client
- True Color
- Hundreds of new True Color Symbols
- Custom Alarm Filters
- Longer Tag Names
- Enhanced Time-Stamped Alarms
- Enhanced Event Trending
Powerful Visualization
CitectSCADA V6.0 includes a powerful Process Analyst, which enables operators and engineers to analyze the cause of process disturbances by combining trends and alarms in one integrated display. There are also over 500 new true color graphic symbols that will allow you to quickly develop, easy-to-use graphics that provide the operator with an intuitive, consistent user interface.
Enterprise Access
A new Web Client is available with CitectSCADA V6.0. This is a zero-maintenance, fully functional client that is viewed using Internet Explorer. This new client allows all users throughout an enterprise to take advantage of real-time information by providing easy access to the SCADA system.
Process Analyst
Process Analyst is the next generation in historical visualization tools. Unlike other SCADA systems, it allows operators and process engineers to analyze the cause of process disturbances by bringing together trend and alarm data, which traditionally is stored separately. With the Process Analyst, users can simply view them all on a single integrated display.
Complete flexibility is provided to the user on how the pens can be displayed, for example they can be overlaid or stacked and any pen can be placed in different panes to reduce clutter and make the display easier to read.
The Process Analyst includes many unique features including true Daylight Savings Time support, accuracy to millisecond resolution, individual time axis per pen, customizable toolbars, rich printing and saving of all display settings for easy recall.
Easy-to-use
The Process Analyst's capability to display such rich information requires it to have an easy-to-use, yet powerful navigation system. Every pen added to the Process Analyst has a number of properties including:
- Pen Color and Name
- Tag properties such as Engineering Units, Scales, etc.
- Cursor Values (multiple cursors are available)
- Data average/minimum/maximum
The information available is customizable, allowing you to add or remove any of the standard column types (e.g. Engineering Units), and also add custom columns.
Process analyst - Examples of Use
Root Cause Analysis
When a process upset or disturbance occurs it is always time consuming to have to find the root cause. In the past the process engineer had to compare trend data from the screen with alarm logs. With Process Analyst, all the engineer has to do is simply add any pen (analog, digital, alarm) that could have contributed to the process upset to the display. Each process change can then easily be compared as alarms occur, enabling sophisticated analysis of the process upset.
Compare Different Batches
With Process Analyst it is easy to compare different batches in a single integrated view. Simply place all the variable tags, alarms and state changes for a batch unit on one pane, and the same set on a separate pane. Then the operator simply has to scroll one of the panes through time. Any differences in the batch execution will immediately be visible.
Sequence of Events
With SCADA systems, the data is distributed around a wide area and typically the RTUs collect the data at millisecond resolution and send it to CitectSCADA every time it is polled. The Process Analyst displays historical alarms and trends to millisecond accuracy, making it easy to determine the sequence of events.
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