A bigger, better AVEVA System Platform

Written by Jeremy Wilbert, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AVEVA

AVEVA™ System Platform and the embedded Operations Management Interface (OMI) provide a scalable solution for supervisory systems, advanced SCADA, MES, and IIoT applications. For 2023, AVEVA introduces new enhancements for System Platform that improve security and offer even more intuitive interface tools that help unify people and processes. Here’s an overview of the newest features in System Platform 2023.

What’s New in AVEVA System Platform 2023

Refreshed user interface

The updated interface provides more efficient workflows and a common user experience across AVEVA’s operations control software portfolio.

Object wizard performance

The updated object wizard delivers significant performance increases during development.

Embed web widgets within OMI industrial graphics

Place one or more web widgets directly in an industrial graphic and place them directly into a pane on both desktop and web clients.

Dynamic images in industrial graphics

A new image property called ImageURI allows users to modify and dynamically change images during runtime.

Alarm improvements

Translations for:

• Alarm messages
• Event messages
• Alarm groups

Support for Microsoft™ Azure Active Directory

Use Azure Active Directory as an authentication provider to configure user roles for development and runtime.

Updates for historical playback capability

Source non-historized values during historical playback to avoid missing information. You can also flag these values to make the viewer aware of the alternative data source.

New big string data type

This new data type allows users to store and transmit huge strings by supporting a virtually unlimited string size.

Security identity logging

Allow developers direct access to additional security information and log security activities (such as failed logins) to the event database.

Cybersecurity enrichment

System Platform 2023 offers continuous enhancements and security hardening.

AVEVA Flex subscription-specific enhancements

Multiple Flex single-engine licenses can now be assigned to a single platform.

Extension updates

• New grid view widget
• Content presenter OMI application update
• Map OMI application update

AVEVA System Platform Enterprise

A new edition of AVEVA System Platform for enterprise implementations with AVEVA Unified Operations Center solutions.

• Web client for AVEVA Operations Management Interface

Access pre-defined OMI displays and graphics from a web browser on any device. New workspaces features for the OMI web client allow you to create ad-hoc runtime displays directly in the browser.

• Extensions

Sankey Diagram OMI App

New AVEVA communication drivers

• MQTT Sparkplug Publisher
• MQTT Pub import/export
• OPC UA Reverse Connect
• Deprecation of Device Integration (DI) objects