GE BC5008, IC5002, BC5005, IC5005, IC5008 Bundled Solutions, Cimplicity Machine Edition ME Bundle

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Bundled Solutions

The Intelligence Panel PC is available as a bundled system with the HMI or Control application software of your choice, such as CIMPLICITY® HMI, Intellution iFIX, or CIMPLICITY Machine Edition, launched from Windows NT® or Windows® 2000 operating systems. Whatever your choices, powerful processors with PCI and ISA backplanes are standard in every Intelligence Panel PC. To save you time and money, GE Fanuc integrates and tests the powerful hardware and software combination on the Intelligence Panel PC at our factory.

The Intelligence Panel PC fits seamlessly into your control application and accommodates your ever-changing industrial requirements. End users, OEM, and system integrators will see a single integrated hardware and software platform that provides a scalable computing platform from the factory floor devices to the business enterprise at a lower cost.

CIMPLICITY Machine Edition (ME) Bundle

The Intelligence Panel PC bundled with Machine Edition software offers a true out-of-the- box Web-enabled solution for machine and process level HMI and PC-based control applications. Incorporating a single user interface, Machine Edition hosts several development and runtime engines within a common environment. Operator interface and PC-based motion control programming are just a few of the included components.

Machine Edition comes with run-time and development software. There are two options available:

■CIMPLICITY Machine Edition View Run-time & Development (also known as View Station )

■CIMPLICITY Machine Edition Control & View Run-time Only, as well as Run-time & Development (also known as Control Station )

HMI/SCADA Bundles

GE Fanuc’s Intelligence solutions are the ideal platform for visualization, automation and control. iFIX and CIMPLICITY HMI software products combine our rugged hardware units with our powerful software applications and are designed to uniquely suit your needs for process or discrete environments.

iFIX, with an information rich automation oriented Function Block Database combined with a robust and extensible graphics environment, is an ideal option for meeting all your supervisory control and data acquisition needs.

iFIX functionality includes features created specifically to address the electronic signature and advanced audit trail needs of regulated industries. This added functionality empowers you to introduce new levels of security and accountability into any application in your organization, regardless of industry. Some markets ideally suited to iFIX include water/wastewater, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, metals, oil and gas, mining and others with a process orientation.

CIMPLICITY HMI provides advanced functionality that establishes a solid foundation for a robust, powerful HMI interface and is the best option for applications with a greater

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