Catapult Add-ons Utilities for Proficy iFix - Catapult has developed a suite of add-on modules for GE Intelligent Platforms’s Proficy iFIX, making operating iFIX even easier, more intuitive and more powerful:

Catapult Menu for iFIX - is a complete navigation system for any Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX from GE Intelligent Platforms. Menu can be added to a new or existing iFIX system and is immediately intuitive to any Microsoft user. Navigation functions include “Back”, “Forward”, Favorites” and “Home”; links to standard iFIX functions and operations, VBA triggers and navigation to any iFIX pictures.

Menu for iFIX even provides automatic picture inclusion, so new pictures can be immediately and automatically added into just the right place in the menu

Events for iFIX adds enhanced event services to any Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX from GE Intelligent Platforms. Events for iFIX provides real-time and historical event recording. This gives utilities the ability to record and report on events for regulatory and accountability purposes. Events for iFIX provides a comprehensive, long term record of operator and system activity, including:

• Operator controls
• Operator event messages
• Changes to and from alarm conditions
• Changes of state to and from non-alarm conditions
• Sequence of Events (SOEs) timed stamped to 1ms
• Apply or remove Control Tag or Information Tag
• Apply or remove Manual Overwrite
• Apply or remove Alarm Disable
• Points that have been placed off or on scan
• Notes that have been added to the system

Catapult Server Redundancy for iFIX - provides the reliability of two iFIX SCADA servers in a redundant configuration with automatic fail-over. The Server Redundancy Module is required when your iFIX system includes processes that cannot run simultaneously on both servers.

Server Redundancy ensures critical software processes only run on their preferred server, avoiding the conflicts of them being run in two places at once. Both servers run as full iFIX servers in the normal way. SRM monitors both servers through either single or dual LAN connections. Failure of a server triggers SRM to start the missing processes on the remaining server. While iFIX alarms will alert users to the fail-over, the process itself is fully automatic.

• Automation Interface - The Server Redundancy Module provides an (OLE) automation interface. This allows it to be controlled from within the iFIX Workspace environment using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• Fail-over notification - iFIX alarms notify operators of fail-over incidents.
• Fail-over recording - In an iPower system, or iFIX system running Catapult Events Module, the migration of process between servers is recorded in the Events list.

Pan & Zoom for iFIX easily achieves an intuitive operator interface for any Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX from GE Intelligent Platforms. Pan and zoom with automatic clutter/declutter greatly enhances operational effectiveness, helps avoid information overload and provide a natural method to navigate the most complex of systems, all without losing easy access to all useful information.

A “zoomed-out” display provides an overview, only showing the most critical information. When operators see a problem they can zoom in on it, automatically revealing more detailed data. Intelligent use of zoom and layering can greatly enhance the operational effectiveness. Information overload is avoided, without losing easy access to all useful information.