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Proficy* Change Management and Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY*CIMPLICITY and Proficy Change Manage-ment together provide a powerful way to manage your GE Intelligent Platforms HMI/SCADA applications and ensure you never experience lost files or the inability to recover from a disaster again.• HaveyoueverwishedyouhadanUndobuttonforyourHMI/SCADAproject?

• Doyouneedanaudittrailforchangesmadetoyoursystem?

• Doyouwanttoincreasethesecurityofyourdevelopmentenvironment?

If so, adding Proficy Change Management to yourCIMPLICITYsystemisanaturalchoice.

ProficyChangeManagementprovidesthefunctionalitytomanageandmaintainprogramsandprojectsinamanufacturingenvironmenttoimproveplantuptime,enforcegoodengineeringpracticeandreducerisk.Usingversioncontrol,security,audittrailing,andscheduledverifications,youcangetahandleonwhat’shappeninginyourplant.

Proficy Change Management is designed tobeanopenandflexibleinterfacewithavarietyofsoftwareandhardwareproductsfromvariousvendorsincludingGE,Rockwell,Siemens,andSchneider,providingyouwithacompleteautomationchangemanage-mentsolution.

Manage Your CIMPLICITY Projects

ProficyChangeManagementensuresthatallyournodesareusingthemostcurrentver-sionofaCIMPLICITYapplicationandusesa

checkout/checkinprocess,wherebyonlyonepersoncanmodifyascreen,thepointdata-baseorotherfilesatagiventime.Thesystemmaintainsaversionhistory,soifundesiredchangesaremade,youcanrecoveraprevi-ousversionwiththeclickofabutton.

AllthishappensfromyourCIMPLICITYWork-bench.TheWorkbenchtreehasbeenenhancedtoprovidealogicalorderofaccesstoallcompo-nentsofyourapplications.ChangeManagementisavailableattheprojectandcomponentleveltomanageyourpointdatabase,screens,con-figurationandmore.

ProficyChangeManagementallowsyoutoeasilymanageyourprojectsinamulti-userdevelopmentenvironment.Multipleuserscanaccessdifferentpartsofthesameappli-cationduringdevelopment,whileensuringpeopledon’toverwriteeachother’swork.

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Proficy* Change Management and Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY*

System Requirements

Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY Version 7.0 or later

Proficy Change Management Server and Scheduler

Track changes and revisions

ProficyChangeManagementprovidesaversioncontrolsystemthatmaintainsahistoryofchangesatboththeprojectandcomponentlevel.Aschangesaremadetocomponents,andcheckedin,newversionsareautomaticallycreated.Thisversionhis-toryprovidestraceability,trackingwhomadechangesandwhen,aswellastheabilitytorevertbacktopreviousversionsifneeded,ensuringthatyoucanrecoverfrominadver-tentorincorrectchangesquicklyandeasily.

Thesystemmaintainstheconceptofamas-terversionontheserver–theversionofthefilesthatshouldberunningonthemasternode.Usingthedifferencefunction,youcancomparethenodefilestothemasterfilesanddetermineifthereareanychanges.Youcanalsocompareanytwoversionsofthefilestodeterminewhatchangeswerebetweenthem.

Detailsofdifferencesareprovidedinatextformatsoyoucanseewhathasbeenadded,modified,ordeleted.

Detailed Audit Trails

The Proficy Change Management system recordseachtimeaprojectisaccessedinacentralaudittrail.Thesystemtrackswhichusersaremodifyingwhatcomponentswithin

yourCIMPLICITYproject.Itrecordsthedate,time,user,computerlocationandproject,alongwithanycommentssuppliedbytheuser.Thisprovidesyouwiththeultimateintraceabilityonchangesforyourapplication.

Security

ProficyChangeManagementworkswithyourCIMPLICITYsecurity.Onlythoseuserswiththeappropriatepermissionscanaccessthefilesbeing managed by the Proficy Change Man-agementsystem.

Scheduled Backup and Compare

TheProficyChangeManagementschedulerallowsyoutoconfirmthattheCIMPLICITYapplicationrunningonanodematchesthemasterversionontheserveronascheduledbasis,ensuringthatunauthorizedchangesaredetected.Withabackupofyourrunningsystems,youcanrecoverfromerrorsorsys-temfailuresquicklyandeasily.