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Schneider Electric announced the release of Citect SCADA 2016, which includes significant upgrades and improvements over prior versions. Citect SCADA 2016 continues to play a key role in the Schneider Electric HMI / SCADA software portfolio offering. The primary driving force behind this product upgrade was to help reduce complexity and expand embedded deployment capabilities.
Evolving workforce demographics, elevated cybersecurity concerns, dynamic market conditions, and evolving regulatory requirements have created significant challenges for industrial organizations across the globe. These market forces are triggering the need to help simplify critical asset management, further optimize automation and control systems, and better perform process improvement. These challenges are exasperated by the need to operate with greater efficiency without impacting security, regulatory or safety risk while maintaining operational agility.
Citect SCADA 2016 helps to address these concerns with enhancements that extend the value of existing SCADA systems while also offering sufficient justification for new users to address the challenges of enhanced engineering simplicity, configuration, and efficiency.
Key new features and functionalities include:
- New Integrated Development Environment – new unified configuration environment with Citect Studio offers faster, more intuitive activity-based user experiences, helping to drive engineering simplicity and shortened learning curves to accelerate ROI
- Enhanced Deployment Management – new deployment view offers a central store of compiled projects, controlled deployment of projects to servers and clients, and built-in security and notification for operators to help save time and effort and drive efficiency
- Simplified Topology Management – new streamlined and centralized server visibility offers a graphical, holistic view to help better manage configuration of a server infrastructure and view topology by machine or by cluster, helping to save costs and engineering time with a more secure, standardized deployment ability and a more holistic view of operations
Keywords: HMI/SCADA, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Requirements, Asset Management, Automation, Control Systems, ARC Advisory Group.