Machine-level historian now includes native connectivity to the OSIsoft PI system.
Rockwell Automation has released the latest FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME) version 2.2 software that includes native connectivity to the OSIsoft PI system. With this release, PI system users who employ Allen-Bradley ControlLogix controllers now have an off-the-shelf machine-level historian application that can transfer historical data to an on-site or enterprise-wide PI System.
The native connectivity means that FactoryTalk Historian ME can automatically communicate with the PI System, allowing users to integrate with Rockwell Automation products to access a new visibility into production operations. Such scalable historian applications allow manufacturers to tap into manufacturing intelligence and make process improvements by leveraging granular, real-time and historical production data to improve product quality, speed time-to-market and regulatory compliance.
FactoryTalk Historian applications build on industry-leading technology licensed from OSIsoft and include additional capabilities inherent in the FactoryTalk software to provide premier integration with the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture. The FactoryTalk Historian ME application works as a stand-alone, rack-mounted historian or rolls-up into a larger plant or enterprise historian system; data is accessible from different locations where users can view and analyse historical information.
“Integrating data from the machine level with data from a plant level historian allows operators to locate and correct sources of inefficiencies more quickly to improve manufacturing consistency, energy use and first-pass quality,” says Frank Kulaszewicz, vice president architecture and software, Rockwell Automation. “Through its added connectivity to the PI System, FactoryTalk Historian ME can now feed historical production information to add additional value to customers, whether they are using FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition or the PI System. A plug-and-play historian that automatically configures with existing equipment and feeds additional granular data is a cost-effective way to gather manufacturing data and improve operations.”
With a modular historian, manufacturers can collect data in remote or hazardous locations where speed and reliability is crucial such as oil and gas, mining, pharmaceutical or water treatment applications. In highly regulated industries, the application helps machine builders provide continuous uptime and reliability. Since a machine-level historian is connected to the application controller network connections are not necessary, as long as the system has a power supply data gathering is assured.
Users also have more control over when data is transferred, which can save time and reduce costs. A machine-level historian can be programmed to transmit data to avoid peak-usage hours, or can be directed to halt and recommence transfer if vital information needs to be prioritised. Once communication is re-established, information from the period of isolation is immediately accessible.
For more information contact Sean Homan, Rockwell Automation, +27 (0)11 654 9700, [email protected], www.rockwellautomation.co.za
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