Events for iFIX adds enhanced event services to any Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX from GE Fanuc. Events for iFIX provides real-time and historical event recording. This gives utilities the ability to record and report on events for regulatory and accountability purposes.

Events for iFIX provides a comprehensive, long term record of operator and system activity, including:

• Operator controls
• Operator event messages
• Changes to and from alarm conditions
• Changes of state to and from non-alarm conditions
• Sequence of Events (SOEs) timed stamped to 1ms
• Apply or remove Control Tag or Information Tag
• Apply or remove Manual Overwrite
• Apply or remove Alarm Disable
• Points that have been placed off or on scan
• Notes that have been added to the system

Events List

One list to view both current and historical events, with seamless scrolling into recent history, or jump to earlier period using filters. The system retains daily event files on single or dual servers for as long as required. The Events list provides a complete view and report facility including:

• Advanced multi-parameter SORT and FILTER facilities
  
  
• Event sources field to highlight, sort or filter on Alarms, Sequence of events, Operator events and so on
  
  
• Click and drag column sizing and column positioning
  
  
• Double-click to enter a time & date stamped message into events

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List Features

• Pop-up dialog to add operator message into events list
• Single click A>Z and Z>A SORT on any column
• Click and drag column sizing
• Click and drag column positioning
• Advanced multi-parameter SORT facility
• Advanced multi-parameter FILTER facility
• Seamless scroll over multiple days, or jump to earlier period using filters
• User-defined file duration to optimize list performance

Sequence of Events (SOEs)

Finding the root cause of a power outage is a critical step towards early restoration of supply to your customers. Standard events are inadequate when many breakers trip in succession. SOEs are time-stamped to 1millisecond precision in the field, not in the master station. SOEs from across your network are sorted chronologically and displayed to operators within the Events list. SOEs inside Events provide a powerful tool to determine root cause of an outage and dispatch crews quickly and effectively.

Momentary Change Detect

Brief transient changes such as a circuit breaker tripping then auto-reclosing can happen between successive data polls, and so be completely missed by the SCADA. In this case operators get no information of the temporary fault, so important corrective work will not be undertaken. Momentary Change Detect (MCD) discovers these transient changes by comparison of high-speed Sequence of Events (SOEs) with conventional events. MCD generates conventional iFIX alarms to alert operators of the problem.

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