GE
Intelligent Platforms

Proficy RX™

Process Analysis Software for Process Analytical Technologies (PAT)
Features
•t Sample system design and control
•t Simultaneous control of multiple
analyzers
•t Real-time trending of any number
of streams
•t System diagnostics, data display,
and alarming
•t Archiving of data in a local or remote
SQL database
•t Comprehensive historical data analysis

Process understanding lies at the heart
of any PAT deployment.
Multiple types of instruments, hardware
and software are an obstacle to collecting,
consolidating and analyzing data. Challenges exist with varied data types,
non-intuitive software environments and
validation of disparate applications. Proficy*
RX from GE Intelligent Platforms helps you
address those challenges and drive manufacturing operational improvement.
Addressing Production Challenges
Proficy RX is a unique software solution
thatprovides standardized control and
networking of multiple instruments, eliminating the necessity to manage, learn and
validate multiple instrument interface
software applications. Preprocessing of
analytical data ensures similar data formats
and protocols and the intuitive nature of
Proficy RX provides a single development
environment, and 21 CFR Part 11 tools
ensure quick and compliant deployment in
regulated environments.
Managing the Measurement Process
Proficy RX manages the measurement
process — from application development to
routine on-line operation. During development it provides all of the tools needed to
design virtually any analytical method. Once
a method has been developed, it can be
locked down and provided with a custom
operator screen with access to predetermined set of operations and displays. In
the traditional world of distributed control
Systems (DCS) and programmable logic
controllers (PLC), relatively simple sensors
such as RTDs, flow meters, and pressure
gauges are used to provide one dimensional
(scalar) information which can be processed
directly by the DCS/PLC.

With advent of Process Analytical Technology, the situation has changed
drastically. An analytical instrument, such
as a near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer,
may provide as many as 2,000 independent spectral data points in less than a
second. This large amount of data must be
collected, stored, displayed, transmitted,
and processed in such a way as to provide
timely and manageable information about
the process variables of interest. Proficy
RX fills this role, bridging the gap between
the instrumentation at the manufacturing
process and the data historian, SCADA, or
other enterprise-level data system.
Key Elements of the Proficy RX Approach
Proficy RX is organized in such a way as to
provide a high degree of flexibility within a
framework specifically tailored to the needs
of analytical,instrumentation.
Database Storage
Proficy RX employs a standard database
structure for all user information, and configuration protocols. This structure provides a
full audit trail while facilitating networking
and hand-off to other data systems.
Proficy Historian Data Storage
Proficy RX leverages the power of Proficy
Historian for storage of all spectral data.
Proficy Historian provides an efficient and
secure means of storage, allowing for a
single, true, “system of record” for all
manufacturing data.
PAT-Specific User Interface
Proficy RX’s four main windows are
designed to streamline the performance of
the tasks typically encountered in process
analysis. PAT-Specific Command Structure
Proficy RX’s command syntax is modular