GE Fanuc’s Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation

There have been many forks in the road toward a truly open and collaborative framework for automation. This is primarily because automation and production management systems have sprung out of different islands of functionality in the manufacturing enterprise. In ARC’s view, the environment must embrace standard technologies, work processes, and best practices wherever possible to ensure the widest range of choice for the end user and to ensure a path toward open development, away from the proprietary standards and technologies that are the legacy of yesterday’s automation systems, and a primary source of additional life cycle cost.