1. GE Fanuc’s Solutions for Automation and Intelligent Production Management

2. GE Fanuc is a part of 11 GE Businesses Growing Globally
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Transportation
NBC
Energy
Commercial Finance
Consumer Finance
GE has a diverse set of 11 businesses that help us stay profitable in any economic cycle.
Operations in over 100 countries
Manufacturing facilities in 32 countries
Research centers in Germany, India, China and the U.S.
305,000+ employees worldwide
$134 billion in revenues in 2003
$61 billion in international revenues in 2003
Advanced Materials
Equipment Services
Insurance
Consumer
& Industrial

3. GE Fanuc Automation Operating Unit of GE Infrastructure
17 Year Joint Venture with FANUC of Japan
Broad Portfolio of Award-Winning Solutions
Local Presence in Every Major Global Market
Six Sigma Methodology
2000+ Employees Worldwide

4. Automation & Intelligent Production Management Market Survey
Key Issues Facing Plant Manager
Plant managers typically spend 50% of their time on production issues
This is the area also where GE Fanuc is focused
Look at this diagram, it shows us that most of the plant managers spend their time with improving production capabilities
The question was
We have the answer:
1700 Plant Managers Surveyed
Source: Industry Week
Worldwide focus on improving production capability

5. Automation & Intelligent Production Management Open and Layered…
All Data
All Networks
ALL Controllers
All HMI/SCADA
Works with All Data Sources
All Historians
Proficy is an open and layered solution. We believe it is very important for our products to work as well together as with third party products. Because the reality today is that you live in a multi-vendor environment. So we have an “embrace and extend” philosophy where we will “embrace” the assets you have now and “extend” their value by bringing new capabilities to them. So with Controllers and OI, if you are already using our controllers, they work with others via standard network and published interface standards.
Our standard HMI/SCADA software works fantastic with our controllers or anyone of our competitors. Our Historian works with all HMI/SCADA products. Our performance & execution applications work with any historian. Our Real Time Information Portal can aggregate information from all data sources, both real-time & historical. So no matter what brands you have installed we can tie into that data source and add more value to them, extending their usefulness.

6. GE Fanuc – What Do We Do? BEVERAGE FACILITY
MES: Allows enterprise quality,
Geneology, tracking & routing
Optimization of the process
CNC : Plastic Injection Molding
or Metal cutting
Embedded : High Speed
Communication and processing
To enable 200 bottle per minutes
PLC : Labeling & Conveyor
Control, Batch control
HMI : Allows the operator to visualize every stage of the process
BEVERAGE FACILITY

7. Delivering Industry Solutions
Machine Automation - GE Fanuc partnered with the world market leader in CNC Controls and is a global supplier delivering machine automation solutions including Motion, PC/CE Based Control and Operator Interfaces.
Process Automation -GE Fanuc as a technology leader is the first to introduce a new line of Programmable Application Controllers. PACSystems™ are significantly more versatile than traditional PLCs with broader application reach, higher performance, and multiple options for runtime targets.
Plant Performance and Optimization -GE Fanuc offers comprehensive automation software and services driving operational efficiency, agility in production, and the capability to manage the enterprise in real time.

8. CNC & machining applications
CNC Market Leader based on technology, reliability and installed base: 500,000+ Controls globally
Full-line of high precision motors and motion control
Global support capability for OEM’s and MTB’s on major programs – automotive, aerospace, etc.
Lean Manufacturing Solutions for End-Users
Setup Reduction
Reduced Cycle Time
Quality Solutions – Six Sigma
Total Productive Maintenance
Machine Status & Cell Monitoring / Coordination
Machine Tool Efficiency
After-market Services
Original Equipment Spare Parts
Warranty Service Contracts
Advanced Training
GE Fanuc CNC Home

9. Embedded system solutions for the most advanced and demanding of applications
300+ off the shelf products
Embedded computers & SBC’s (VME, PC104+ & CompactPCI)
PMC Modules & Expansion/Carrier Cards
Rugged switches for extreme conditions
Rapid customization for application
Rapid prototyping & custom development
Open Architecture
In-house SMT manufacturing facilities
Value-add supplier in demanding applications
Stable, Reliable Platform with clearly defined roadmap
High-Performance, Multi-Processor Scalability
Extreme condition capability based on comprehensive application-based testing
There are classes of applications today requiring technology typically not available “off the shelf”. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems provides an ability to engineer and design customized embedded components that can then be assembled to meet today’s most demanding applications. Typical industries include Telecommunications, Communications, Military, etc..
Turbine Control
Embedded Systems Home

10. Controller, I/O, and motion technology
Industry leading commitment to open systems and standards for controllers, I/O, and networks
Full range of versatile, high performance controller solutions with PACSystems™
Commitment to our customers installed base with seamless migration to new products
Proficy Machine Edition
Integrated development environment for motion, logic, and view
Common/uniform tools for multiple targets
Control solutions include high-availability, safety, SCADA, and other advanced applications
GE Fanuc has a strong commitment to open systems making it easy for you to use our products with your existing automation infrastructure
We have an absolute commitment to bringing our customers forward with smooth migration and compatibility as new products are introduced
GE Fanuc’s integrated development environment accelerates the development of new control systems by integrating logic, motion, and local operator interface into the same comprehensive package.
Controller Technology Home

11. Visualization solutions from simple text displays….
Open communications to industry-prevalent controllers
250,000+ QuickPanel™ operator interfaces installed
Machine Edition integrated logic development and visualization environment.
Build once – view everywhere
Full-range of Industrial Computer’s (iPC’s) from panel mount touch screens through extreme environments and fault tolerant computing
iPC’s integrated with GE Fanuc’s market leading HMI/SCADA software, CIMPLICITY and iFIX
GE Fanuc offers a complete line of operator interface products from simple text based displays to integrated industrial computers
Our philosophy is to allow our customers to build the application once and preserve that investment through the full range of products.
…to HMI/SCADA systems, plant analytics, KPIs, and dashboards

12. Plant performance and optimization solutions
Real-Time Information Portal
Plant Performance & Execution
Integrated Quality
Asset Management
Plant Data Repository
HMI / SCADA
Programming & Control
What exactly are the capabilities within Proficy?
Proficy includes a broad set of integrated applications that cover capabilities from machine level control and visualization, to plant and enterprise historians/data marts, real-time web-based information portals, and the plant applications you need to optimize production
Proficy also included is a wide range of services to ensure smooth and continuous production.

13. Introducing PACSystems™ - the Enabling Technology

14. Independent Analysis
“The PLC has evolved by incorporating open standard interfaces, multi-domain functionality, distributed modular architectures, and modern software capabilities integrated as turnkey automation solutions. The label "PLC" simply understates the capability of current automation systems.
“As a new generation of functional capabilities pervades the market the more apt notion of Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) will displace its predecessor. PACs augment the function and role of the traditional PLC by defining new capabilities for the next generation PLC. This PAC concept will play a major role in plant and factory automation in the future.“
Craig Resnick
Director of Research
ARC Advisory Group
As you can see this new control will replace the traditional one dimensional control.

15. Multi-Functional Controller Platforms
Multi-domain functionality – discrete, process, motion, HMI on a single platform
Deploy multiple control applications on a single platform
Common development platform
Open, modular control architectures that enable highly distributed automated factory environments
Standards for network interfaces, languages, etc., allowing data exchange as part of multi-vendor systems
The answer is a new type of control. Built on standards, multi- function, open, and flexible.
Connecting Factory Floor Operations With Business Systems

16. GE Fanuc PACSystems™ - one control engine, one development environment for multiple hardware platforms
The Best of PLCs combined with the Best of PCs
Multidiscipline, deterministic control for every application
Application portability to multiple platforms
Performance and Productivity
Follow technology enhancements for continuous performance improvement
Single multi-discipline development platform
Flexibility and Openness
Users’ choice of appropriate platform, programming language and communication scheme
Connectivity to all levels of production operations
Obsolescence Avoidance
Bringing applications forward, protecting investments in intellectual property, equipment and installed costs 
RX3i 
RX7i 
GE Fanuc has taken this new control definition and gone farther. Providing easy paths for migration forward for today and tomorrow.

17. Tomorrow’s Plant Architecture with Multi-Functional Controller Platforms
Enterprise Tier:
Proxy Servers
Corporate Firewall
Operations Tier:
Supervisory Tier:
Plant
Database
CPM
RPM Dashboard
Wireless
Plant
Workstations
The New Control Tier:
Real-Time Industrial Network
(Ethernet, Device, Control, Motion)
HMI/SCADA, Reporting Systems, Assembly, PACs, Cell Control, Drives, Servos, Motors, Sensors, Pumps, Valves, Embedded Intelligence, Smart Cameras, Embedded Web Servers
PAC
CNC
Robots
Device Tier:

18. How many automation software solutions does it take to change a business?
Performance & Agility for the Real-Time Enterprise TM

19. The Proficy Suite Plant Intelligence at its best
A comprehensive suite of fully integrated applications, which support all the fonctions of a production site and directly links into the IT and ERP Systems of the enterprise

20. Open and Layered… Only Proficy!
All Data
All Networks
ALL Controllers
All HMI/SCADA
Works with All Data Sources
All Historians
Proficy is an open and layered solution. We believe it is very important for our products to work as well together as with third party products. Because the reality today is that you live in a multi-vendor environment. So we have an “embrace and extend” philosophy where we will “embrace” the assets you have now and “extend” their value by bringing new capabilities to them. So with Controllers and OI, if you are already using our controllers, they work with others via standard network and published interface standards.
Our standard HMI/SCADA software works fantastic with our controllers or anyone of our competitors. Our Historian works with all HMI/SCADA products. Our performance & execution applications work with any historian. Our Real Time Information Portal can aggregate information from all data sources, both real-time & historical. So no matter what brands you have installed we can tie into that data source and add more value to them, extending their usefulness.

21. The Proficy suite: the modules
Proficy Plant Applications (Batch Management, Efficiency Management, Production Management, Quality Management)
A complete set of integrated MES functions
Proficy Historian
Secured, ultra-fast & reliable storage of enterprise-wide production data
Proficy Portal
THE Proficy web window
Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY & iFIX
The HMI best-sellers of the market
Proficy Batch Execution
The Batch execution module according to S88
Proficy Shop Floor SPC
For advanced SPC functions

22. Proficy Plant Applications The MES according to GE Fanuc
Efficiency : Real-time visibility of Equipment status and Production efficiency, wastes, down time, including contextual information and analysis
Quality : Monitoring of "out-of-specs" alarms. Analysis of data to identify root cause problem areas
Production : Execution, WIP control, production genealogy and traceability
Batch Analysis : Detailed reporting and analysis of batch production

23. Complementary functions
SAP R/3
Financial Systems
Finished Goods & Raw Materials
Procurement
Customer Service
Customer Orders
Capacity Planning
Shipping & Logistics
Warehouse Management
Supply Chain Planning
Scheduling
Proficy
Product Tracking
Waste & Downtime Tracking
Control Systems Integration
Factory Floor Production Management
Process History
Real Time Quality Management
Shop Floor Metrics
Decision Support
Shop Floor User Interface
Proficy complements SAP R/3 and Supply Chain Systems functions

24. Based on the WBF (World Batch Forum) - B2MML / XML schemas
Connection to the ERP
"S95 Toolkit"
Based on the WBF (World Batch Forum) - B2MML / XML schemas

25. Value Proposition With Proficy you can dramatically improve:
Utilization of plant assets
Quality of products produced
Agility of production processes
Costs of manufacturing
Regulatory Compliance
Plant-Business Integration
The Value Proposition
Proficy helps you dramatically improve quality of products, the efficiency of your operation, the utilization of your assets and the agility of the enterprise.
Today Agility is more and more important because it enables you to respond to and capitalize on unforeseen market opportunities.
Proficy helps you comply with regulatory requirements and integrate your plant and business systems with your customers and suppliers.

26. Industry Awards and Recognition
Engineers’ Choice Award, Control Engineering
Readers Choice Awards, Control and Control Design
Hottest Company, Start
Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Innovation Award
Automation Excellence Award, IAN
Best Plant Award, IndustryWeek
OSHA VPP Star Site
Manufacturing Technology Achievement, American Machinist
General Motors’ Supplier of the Year Award
Editors’ Choice Award, Control Engineering
Product of the Year Finalist, Plant Engineering
Once again, iFIX ranked highly in the SCADA category for Control Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Awards:
infoAgent has won an Editor’s Choice Award from Control Engineering magazine – the third consecutive year Intellution-branded applications have won this outstanding award. (iHistorian in 2001, iWorkInstruction in 2002 and now infoAgent in 2003)

27. In This Challenging Environment GE Fanuc
Provides automation tools to gain measurable ROI
Offers open layered solutions preserving your investments
Allows real-time operations visibility for quick decisions
Provides you visibility into all aspects of production
Supplies true business intelligence
Enables easier compliance to Regulatory Agencies
Integrates into existing IT Infrastructure
Creates visibility of asset performance for optimization and stabilization of operation

28. Questions and Answers