You still needed the Thick Client management console to fully manage the Historian. GE did come out with a web-based management console but was always a headache to get installed and also was limited to only some of the management tools. The GE iHistorian management console to me felt like it was outdated. I found that Canary Labs Administration console was the easiest to work with. It didn’t take long before I realized how bad the iHistorian and FTHistorian was compared to Canary Labs. I then relocated and changed jobs and ended up with a SCADA system using GE iHistorian at one facility and Rockwell FTHistorian at another facility. We also rarely had issues with the Historian, and if we did, Canary’s Technical support responded within minutes of my phone call to them. The plant operators had no problems learning and using Canary’s trending tool. One big difference I noticed was how I was no longer contacted every time someone needed a trend built. The trending tool at the time was Canary Labs trend link, which I embedded into our HMI which was GE Proficy iFix. Years ago, when I worked at a previous job, I went from GE’s Classic Historian which we have been using for close to 5 years and switched to Canary labs and was blown away with the difference in nearly all aspects of the products.
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