OSIsoft Process Book
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| Process Book | |
 A typical Process Book display page |
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| Developer: | OSIsoft |
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| Latest release: | 2.31 for Microsoft Windows / ??? |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | Display |
| License: | Proprietary EULA |
| Website: | OSIsoft |
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[edit] Overview
Numerous companies in manufacturing, distribution, research and development, utilities and even academia have integrated their processes with OSIsoft's online, real-time operational data surveillance system. This system, dubbed PI (process information) has revolutionized the monitoring of process data.
PI data are Microsoft Windows-based and are accessible through personal computers and offer current values, archived data and many display and trending options, which may be used in custom datasets. Use of the interface is simple and refined, with basic knowledge of C programming language helpful.
[edit] Delivery System
In order for process data to be delivered to the computer interface, transmitters must be implemented into the equipment being monitored. The transmitters then issue data into the system.
Examples of data delivered include pressure differentials, pH values of a tank, flowrates in a piping system, pump amperes, reel speed on a paper machine, or even chemical makeup of a reactor via gas chromatography.
[edit] Options
PI display tags can be used in similar fasion to spreadsheets, which can implement equations and generate functions of variables for virtually any task. Process Book is an automation server, which allows peripherally located programs to automate or control OLE objects within the process book server. Examples are Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications and Microsoft Excel. Process Book also accommodates ActiveX controls, allowing for use of objects not generated in the PI data library.
[edit] Archives
PI data are stored as RAM in a network server, and can easily be queried into a spreadsheet program for manipulation or analysis. This is extremely useful for production supervisors, engineers, technicians or anyone interested in trends of process data during regular operation, process trials or even troubled activity due to power outages or equipment failure.
