What's New

This section provides highlights of product changes in Q4 2021.

• To improve the performance of GE Digital APM, the following functionalities have been converted to a background job:
  • Analysis deletion in the Asset Criticality Analysis module
  • Strategy and template deletion in the Asset Strategy Management module
  • Save as Template in the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis module
  • Save as Template in the Reliability Centered Maintenance module

• A new module, Rounds Pro, has been introduced in GE Digital APM. This module along with the Rounds Pro mobile application, provides enhanced features that enable rounds operators in industrial plants to monitor the health of the assets in a plant and detect technical problems and failures with ease. For more information, refer to the Rounds Pro documentation.
• The next generation of the Data Loader framework with enhanced ability to load assets into the GE Digital APM environment has been released. The APM Family Data Loader that is used to ingest assets into GE Digital APM has been rearchitected to improve reliability and performance. The new framework is more performant and aligns with the future direction of GE Digital APM. For more information, refer to the Data Loaders V2 documentation.
• A new module, Workflow Solutions, has been introduced in GE Digital APM. This module enables GE Digital Services to deliver tailored configurations of GE Digital APM that are aligned to a customer’s work processes and accelerate adoption of GE Digital APM. For more information, refer to the Workflow Solutions documentation.
• To enhance usability while viewing images in the Inspection Management module, a new feature, Image Gallery has been introduced. The inspectors can now view all conditions of an asset along with the checklist findings at a single location. This enables the inspection team to quickly review the report and take appropriate actions. For more information, refer to the Inspection Management documentation.
• To ensure extensibility, in the Thickness Monitoring module, you can now define pressure minimum thickness value for additional component types as per industry standards. For more information, refer to the Thickness Monitoring documentation.
• The following updates have been added to the GE Digital help system:
  • To enhance usability and provide better navigation experience, the System Requirements document has been restructured. For more information, refer to the APM System Requirements documentation.
  • A new document, APM Module Deployment and Upgrade, has been published that provides you with consolidated deployment and upgrade information for all modules without having to search different areas of the documentation. For more information, refer to the APM Module Deployment and Upgrade documentation.

• File Gateway module has been deprecated.