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Citect SCADA 2018 R2 is here

Written by Anne Fletcher | Sep 23, 2019 10:22:50 AM

We're pleased to share that the latest release of Citect SCADA 2018 from our partners at AVEVA is now available. 

Citect SCADA 2018 R2 includes a number of enhancements which continues Citect's focus on modernising operations and simplifying the engineering experience with improved visualisation. 

It includes support for Graphics Browsing in Citect Studio and a number of graphical editing enhancements, plus stronger connectivity with additional AVEVA product integration and mobility capabilities.

Security is also center-stage in this release with the implementation of encrypted communications across all product areas and much more.

 

Anne Fletcher, our Citect Product Manager explains more...

 

The new features explained a bit more:

Graphics Browsing in Citect Studio

    • Browse, search and filter across graphic types; Symbols, Genies, Super Genies
    • Quickly Filter to find duplicate graphics within your project/s
    • Create and Open symbols directly in Graphics Builder
    • Delete symbols directly from Citect Studio

 

Historian Integration: Turn trapped plant data into actionable information

    • Thorough integration with the AVEVA Historian portfolio, you have the ability to publish your data to AVEVA Process Historian, AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian, or AVEVA Insight.
    • This release includes a new native high-performance interface facilitating near-real-time data, with integrated redundancy support. Initially supporting connectivity to eDNA Enterprise Historian, this interface will in future be utilised to support high-speed communications to Process Historian and Insight.
 

 

Cloud Intelligence & Mobility

    • Leverage the AVEVA Insight connectivity and unleash the power of  cloud to enhance your on-premise SCADA system
    • Automatically detect anomalous patterns in your historical data and display these via the AVEVA Insight “newsfeed”
    • Direct access to your data via Insight Mobile, on any device, anytime, anywhere

Security Enhancements

    • Secure Transport, Encryption: provides encrypted connections between Citect SCADA processes; Client, Server, CtAPI.
    • Access Control Restrictions: provides ability to limit access to sensitive information
    • Deprecated some existing functionality to improve security perimeter
    • Remote Cicode Debugger: debugger is now only able to connect to Citect SCADA processes on local machine.
    • DDE Server/Client: DDE interface is now disabled by default.

 

To find out more about some of the new features of Citect SCADA 2018 view our latest webinar: Citect SCADA 2018 – A look at the latest developments.