Installed Components

Plant Applications includes the following user interfaces and major components:

Plant Applications Server (Installed by ProficyServer.exe)

  • Installs the Plant Applications database, or installs a Unified Manufacturing Database (UMDB) that merges data tables from Plant Applications data structures to Proficy SOA (S95) data structures.

  • Installs several Proficy Server services. The Proficy Server services perform many functions, such as interfacing to the process historian, detecting events, performing calculations, and managing real-time interaction with client applications.

Plant Applications Client

  • Contains all Plant Applications displays.

  • Provides a customizable environment.

  • Contains built-in cross-application automation.

  • Allows for direct access to content on Plant Applications Web Server.

  • Different Plant Applications modules enable different types of displays in the Plant Applications Client. Each display is also exposed as an ActiveX control, and may be used outside of the Plant Applications Client in any ActiveX container, such as the iFIX Workspace.

Details for the Plant Applications Client end-user configuration are stored on the server under the users’ log-on names. This provides the users with their own look and feel, no matter which computer they use.

Plant Applications Administrator

  • Provides all configuration and management for Plant Applications, including the aspecting of entities between Proficy SOA and Plant Applications when a Unified Manufacturing Database (UMDB) is installed.   

  • Includes all product management functionality, such as maintaining recipes.

  • Includes management of all Proficy Servers, the Plant Applications Web Server, and Web Parts.

Proficy Client (Proficy Workflow Client)

  • Enables data entry for Plant Applications entities through the convenient Proficy Client (Proficy Workflow Client) interface

  • Provides data methods for Proficy Workflows (with license) to design custom displays and forms to gather, monitor, and analyze data related to plant operations

Note:  To enable the Proficy Client UI and automatic aspecting, set the UseProficyClient parameter in Plant Applications to "true." When enabled, models created in Plant Applications are automatically aspected to SOA and SOA menus are displayed to work with the plant model with changes linking back to Plant Applications. Also, "unitless" variables (for example, material properties aspected to Plant Applications) are displayed under S95 Department when the Proficy Client UI is enabled. In the Plant Applications Administrator, follow these steps to enable the Proficy Client UI:

1.  Open the Server Manager by connecting to a server and double-clicking the server name under Plant Applications Server.

2. Select Administer Site Parameters under Global Configuration

3. Set the value for the UseProficyClient parameter to True.  (Click on the button in the Edit column to change the value.)

Refer to "MESCore Service Provider Documentation" at the Contents tab for information about using the Proficy Client.

Proficy Vision Displays

Web Client Displays are no longer supported as of Plant Applications 6.3.

  • Provides access to displays, through the Proficy Vision interface, that are created in Proficy Workflow.

Plant Applications Web (Reports) Client

  • Provides access to the Plant Applications Web server.

  • Is the primary interface for users.

  • Controls access to information.

  • Provides access to standard reports.

  • Provides access to user-defined or site-specific reports.

Plant Applications Add-In for Excel

  • Exposes Plant Applications data in Microsoft Excel.

  • Is a common tool for ad hoc analysis and reporting.

  • Can publish Excel reports to the Web.