Citect
| Public | |
| Industry | Industrial Automation |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Founded | Sydney, Australia, 1973 |
| Defunct | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Products |
CitectSCADA Vijeo Citect Citect Facilities CitectHistorian Vijeo Historian Ampla |
| Revenue | A$61.5 million in 2004 |
| Owner | Schneider Electric |
|
Number of employees
|
390 in 2007 |
| Website | www.citect.schneider-electric.com |
| Developer(s) | Schneider Electric |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
2015 / 2 July 2015
|
| Preview release |
2015 (7.50)
|
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Website | http://www.citect.schneider-electric.com/scada/vijeo-citect |
Citect was a software development company specialising in the Automation and Control industry. The main software products developed by Citect included CitectSCADA, CitectSCADA Reports, and Ampla.
Citect began as a subsidiary of Alfa Laval in 1973. The company was then known as Control Instrumentation. A name change of the company took place to Ci Technologies, and then to Citect to take advantage of the well known name of its flagship software product, CitectSCADA.
Whilst Citect was considered to be a software development company, it also had a large Professional Services division, which was a key contributor to the success of the business.
In 2006, Citect Pty Ltd was acquired by the Schneider Electric group.
At the end of 2008, Citect ceased trading as an independent company and all of its remaining operations were absorbed into Schneider Electric.
Ampla is Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software.
Cicode is a programming language used by Citect SCADA software. The structure and syntax of Cicode is very similar to that of the Pascal programming language, the main difference being that it does not include pointers and associated concepts. Citect provides a rich programming API that includes sophisticated programming constructs such as concurrent tasks and semaphores.
A Cicode sample is shown below. The function is used to log information to a file.
CitectSCADA is a HMI / SCADA software package supporting
made by Citect with
Martin Roberts wrote Citect for DOS, released in 1987, as a response to the limited range of PC-based operator interface software available at the time. Citect for DOS consisted of a configuration database (in dBase format), a bitmap (256 colour raw format) and an animation file. The user would draw a representation of a facility using the readily available Dr Halo graphical package and placing "Animation Points" in the desired location. "Tags" were assigned in the configuration databases, equating to addresses within the programmable electronic devices Citect was communicating with. By referencing these tags at animation points using other configuration databases, the user could show the state of equipment such as running, stopped or faulted in real-time.
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