Release Notes

• Overview of Proficy CSense
• Unsupported Items and Recommendations
• Installation
• • Before Installing
  • Installing Required 3rd Party Software Components
  • Installing CSense from an electronic (or downloaded) distribution
• After Installing
• • Licensing your installation of Proficy CSense
  • Installing Optional Requirements
• Upgrading from previous versions of Proficy CSense
• • Upgrading from CSense 7.0 and CSense 7.0 SP1?
  • Upgrading from an earlier version of CSense?
• Troubleshooting
• Working with Other Proficy Products

Overview of Proficy CSense

Proficy CSense is an analytics product suite that is used by engineers to analyze, troubleshoot and mine industrial plant and equipment data, as well as to monitor the performance of processes and equipment, identify causes for variation, reduce variation and optimize these processes and equipment.

The main software components include Troubleshooter, an off-line data preparation, analysis and data mining tool, Architect, a solution development and simulation platform with drag-and drop components to develop and test solutions, and a Run-time environment that supports the deployment and execution of real-time, scheduled and event-based solutions.

Proficy CSense solutions include Analysis & troubleshooting of process performance variability, Monitoring & early detection of process and equipment health & performance deviations including control loops, Prediction of process performance using machine learning, Simulation of process behavior & performance using process digital twin models, Optimization of process settings and setpoints using optimizers and model predictive control.

Unsupported Items and Recommendations

• Microsoft SQL Server Express is not recommended for running Proficy CSense Runtime Edition in production environments.

• Consult the Requirements tab of this ebook for a list of supported Operating Systems and SQL Server versions.

Installation

Before Installing

1. Ensure that your environment meets the minimum hardware and software requirements for Proficy CSense. See the Requirements tab of this ebook to review the minimum and recommended hardware and software requirements, as well as additional system requirements prior to installing CSense.

2. Exit any existing copies of Proficy CSense software you have running.

3. Ensure that you have a valid Proficy CSense license for this version. 

4. Log in to Windows with an account that has administrator privileges.

5. If you do not have an existing instance of SQL Server on the target system and wish CSense to install a CSense managed instance of SQL Server, then proceed to the next step. If you already have an existing instance of SQL Server on the target system that you wish to use for your CSense installation, create a SQL login for the Windows user account above and assign the following Server Roles to the SQL login:

   1. dbcreator
   2. securityadmin
   3. serveradmin

6. Consider disabling virus-checking software and Internet security applications on your system for the duration of the installation process. These applications may impact on the installation process or cause it to appear unresponsive.

Installing required 3rd party software components

Proficy CSense requires an existing local instance of Microsoft SQL Server on the target system.  When installing and configuring your instance of SQL Server, please ensure that the following requirements for SQL Server are met:

NOTE: The steps above are only required if you choose to install your own copy of SQL Server. While installing CSense, you can choose to allow CSense to install a CSense managed instance of SQL Server, in which case you are not required to perform any additional configuration on SQL Server.

• You are using a version of SQL Server supported by this version of CSense (consult the Requirements tab in this ebook for more information on the supported versions of SQL Server).

• Create a SQL login for the Windows user account that will be the primary user of CSense on the target system, and assign the following SQL Server Roles to the SQL login:

• • dbcreator

  • securityadmin

  • serveradmin

Installing CSense from an electronic (or downloaded) distribution

1. Mount or extract the contents of the distributed iso file.

2. Open My Computer and browse to your folder containing the iso contents and run the <Setup.exe> application file located in the root folder.

3. From the Autorun setup menu, start the installation.

4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your installation.

NOTE: Should you install a product not supported by your license key, the software will notify you that your product is not licensed when attempting to run an application.

After Installing

Licensing your installation of Proficy CSense

Proficy Common Licensing provides a easy-to-use tool to both view and manage software licensing.

To access the help for the Proficy Common Licensing, perform the following steps

• From the desktop, select Start > Programs > General Electric > License Help.
• The Proficy Common Licensing help opens.

Installing Optional Requirements

Proficy CSense can make use of the following data providers and additional components if installed and configured on the target system.  These components are not distributed with CSense:

• Proficy Historian OLE DB Provider (required for the Proficy Historian data source)
• OSISoft PI OLE DB Provider (required for the OSIsoft PI Historian data source)
• Matlab Compiler Runtime (required when using the Matlab block in CSense blueprints)

Consult the product documentation distributed with the listed products for more information on installing and setting up these optional components

Upgrading from previous versions of Proficy CSense

Upgrading from CSense 7.0 and CSense 7.0 SP1?

Existing CSense 7.0 and CSense 7.0 Service Pack 1 users can run this installer to upgrade an existing installation to CSense 8.5. Simply follow the instructions for installing CSense from an electronic distribution and follow the on-screen prompts.

NOTE: When upgrading, you will not be able to choose to install a managed SQL Server Express instance with your CSense installation.

Upgrading from an earlier version of CSense?

Users upgrading from a version of CSense earlier than CSense 7.0 are required to uninstall such previous versions of CSense before proceeding to install CSense 8.5.

Uninstalling previous versions

1. Open Control Panel > Programs and Features.

2. Select Proficy CSense, and select Uninstall to remove the program.

3. Follow the prompts to uninstall the product.

Troubleshooting

Consult the Proficy CSense online help for assistance in troubleshooting your Proficy CSense installation and ensure that you have met all the system requirements as specified on the Requirements tab of this ebook.  Reach out to our product support team should you continue to experience difficulties in installing CSense.

Working with Other Proficy Products

Check the Requirements tab of this ebook if you wish to use CSense together with other Proficy products.

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