SCADA platforms — the landscape and the old names
Map of widely used SCADA/HMI platforms with their former names (Wonderware, Citect, Intellution, RSView…), licensing and architecture differences, and what to check when choosing.
SCADA products are renamed with every acquisition, so engineers meet the same software under several names. This table maps current names to the ones you will still find in plants and documents.
Current name → earlier names
| Current product | Earlier / other names | Vendor history |
|---|---|---|
| AVEVA InTouch HMI | Wonderware InTouch | Wonderware → Invensys → Schneider Electric → AVEVA |
| AVEVA System Platform | Wonderware System Platform, ArchestrA, Industrial Application Server | same as above |
| AVEVA Plant SCADA | Citect SCADA, CitectSCADA, Vijeo Citect (Schneider) | Ci Technologies → Schneider → AVEVA |
| AVEVA Historian / PI System | Wonderware Historian (InSQL); OSIsoft PI | OSIsoft acquired by AVEVA |
| Proficy iFIX | Intellution FIX / iFIX, GE iFIX | Intellution → GE → GE Vernova |
| Proficy CIMPLICITY | GE CIMPLICITY | GE → GE Vernova |
| FactoryTalk View SE/ME | RSView32, RSView SE/ME | Rockwell Automation |
| WinCC / WinCC Unified / WinCC OA | WinCC flexible, PVSS (WinCC OA) | Siemens (ETM for WinCC OA) |
| GENESIS64 | ICONICS GENESIS32 | ICONICS, part of Mitsubishi Electric |
| zenon | — | COPA-DATA |
| Ignition | FactorySQL/FactoryPMI (predecessors) | Inductive Automation |
| MasterSCADA 4D | MasterSCADA 3.x | ИнСАТ / МПС софт |
| TRACE MODE 6 | TRACE MODE 5 | AdAstrA |
Architectural differences that matter
- Tag-based vs object-based: InTouch, iFIX, classic WinCC define tags per screen/application; System Platform, WinCC OA, zenon, Ignition (UDTs) and MasterSCADA build plant object models with templates — easier to scale.
- Licensing: per tag/IO count (most classic products), per server with unlimited tags/clients (Ignition), runtime per node (MasterSCADA, TRACE MODE).
- Clients: thick Windows clients vs HTML5/web clients (Ignition Perspective, WinCC Unified, zenon HTML5, AVEVA OMI web).
- Redundancy & distribution: server pairs, distributed I/O servers (Plant SCADA clusters), gateway networks (Ignition).
- Drivers: built-in (Ignition, zenon, Plant SCADA) or via OPC servers.
Choosing questions
- Which controllers and protocols must be supported natively?
- Expected tag count, clients and sites in 10 years — and licensing cost at that size.
- Redundancy, historian and alarm-management requirements.
- Who maintains it locally; availability of integrators and training.
- Operating system and security requirements (patching, domain integration, certificates).
Connections
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Sources
- AVEVA InTouch HMI documentation — AVEVA
- Ignition 8.3 documentation — Inductive Automation
- zenon online help — COPA-DATA
- Proficy iFIX documentation — GE Vernova
- MasterSCADA 4D — руководство пользователя — ОВЕН / МПС софт
Updated 2026-10-04