FactoryTalk® Optix™ now offers high availability and a generative AI design-time assistant, helping manufacturers keep critical HMI/SCADA operations running while making visualization applications faster and easier to develop.
Built to provide a seamless hardware-software deployment, FactoryTalk Optix bridges Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), edge computing, and data management across your manufacturing floor. As maintaining system availability and accelerating application development remain a top priority for modern industrial operations, FactoryTalk Optix v 1.8 addresses both with a three-node high availability architecture and an integrated AI chatbot to help users quickly find answers.
Where unplanned downtime can disrupt operations, delay decisions, and put critical process visibility at risk, FactoryTalk Optix helps maintain continuous HMI operations when failures occur. High Availability delivers resilient system operation with automatic failover and minimal operator intervention. A new intuitive management tool simplifies configuration of the three-node architecture, while a virtual IP helps clients maintain connectivity to the cluster during failover.
3-node highly available cluster
FactoryTalk Optix also introduces a generative AI design-time assistant. The integrated chatbot provides documentation-grounded guidance directly in the development environment, helping designers quickly find answers to "how do I" questions without leaving their workflow. By reducing time spent searching documentation, developers can focus on building and refining applications more efficiently.
Together, these enhancements improve system resilience for plant operations while simplifying application development and deployment.
