Forms
Use online, Excel-like, PI Asset Framework-configured forms for manual data entry, report generation and data quality monitoring. Always keep the data in your PI System consistent and provide your organization with timely, accurate and high-quality reports from all the processes and KPIs you define. Give everyone, depending on their organization role, access to business KPIs such as OEE, downtimes or carbon footprint.
Reports
Integrate seamlessly with any data warehouses, data lakes or big data platforms using your existing PI Asset Framework data models and efficient PI-optimized ETL capabilities built into Smart RDM. Generate and access in one portal dashboards and reports created in various tools such as PI Vision, Grafana, Power BI, SSRS, Tableau or Looker. Schedule and subscribe to reports or dashboards of your choice and generate event-triggered reports to reveal the power of data in PI System for everyone in the organization.
Big data analytics
Connect Python scripts directly to your PI Data to build scalable analyses, machine learning and forecasting scripts, scripts for integration of various systems as well as data exports and synchronization of data into data warehouses. Schedule, control and run multiple scripts in parallel and use the power of Kubernetes for scaling computations. Extend your PI System with proper predictive maintenance, advanced forecasting or digital twin capabilities.
Event Management
Discover immense value delivered to your organization by Event Frames. View, analyze and combine PI-generated events such as Event Frames or PI Notifications with business systems. Use functionality of splitting events into multiple subevents to better adapt to your processes and conduct more insightful event analysis. Augment events with additional metadata such as pictures, comments, descriptions and assign them to responsible persons. All those functionalities are available in multiple user interfaces such as computer, rugged-devices and mobile to enable organization-wide deployment.
Process Management
Combine the capabilities of PI System in data collection and processing with workflow engine available in Smart RDM. Make events part of your business process thanks to assigning them to responsible persons, triggering event-based reports or triggering actions in integration scripts. Those functionalities allow you to turn PI System into MES or CMMS solutions that, not only, plays the role of single source of truth for OT data but also allows to model various plant-level processes and integrations in single environment.
Cloud
Combine your PI System with the cloud and build secure and scalable hybrid architecture, where critical data may reside in the place your PI Systems are and reporting, analytics, machine learning and integration are done in the cloud. Smart RDM allows you to use your PI data models and seamlessly move them to both Azure and GCP data platforms. Discover the abilities of PI System combined with Open AI and Bard for multiple use cases such as real-time knowledge management on the plant level.
Quick benefits for your AVEVA PI Installation
Extend Asset Framework (PI AF) capabilities
- User interface for manual data input by business users (both into PI Asset Framework and data archive).
- Tracking of PI AF data changes for audit purposes.
- Interactive forms, configured in asset framework.
- Data validation – possibility to correct the values in PI System.
Dashboards and User Interfaces
- Portal that gives each user organization access to information collected in PI without risking security breaches or data integrity risks.
- Users can navigate AF trees without using PI System Explorer or other administration tools of PI System.
- Navigation pane for PI Vision, integrated with PI Vision API, making it easy to navigate even through thousands of PI Vision screens.
- Built-in Grafana as an alternative to PI Vision for unlimited adoption and exposing business dashboards to everyone in the organization.
Extend Event Frame capabilities
- Edit values related to events, add comments and attachments to the events. All changes are tracked.
- Assigning events to people, track the lifecycle of the event.
- Manually closing the events – especially useful when it is not possible to have automatic formula for end of the Event Frame.
- Possibility to use event frames as a part of business processes – the result is CMMS built on top of Event Frame engine.
Easy way to report data from AVEVA PI in Power BI/Tableau/SSRS or Other Reporting Tools
- Automatic report generation (in the form of PDF) based on configuration stored in PI AF – avoiding the hassle of writing queries to PI and maintaining report schemes manually.
- One place to write (Python), schedule and monitor integration of PI with data warehouses and big data platforms.
Special PI UI for Plan Operators
The optimal way of providing only the information operators need with user interface optimized not only to show the data from PI but also collect input from operators and store it back in PI. Examples may be comments to events or downtimes, shift information and others.
Big Data Module – When PI Asset Framework Analytics Don't Cut It
Possibility to implement, in managed environment, Python scripts utilizing PI AF data model, especially useful when.
- Some outdated PI ACE scripts need to be replaced.
- Capabilities of PI Asset Analytics are not enough for the type of calculations to be made.
- Use cases like predictions, machine learning or AI are to be conducted efficiently utilizing PI data and minimizing integrations effort.
- Robust ETL solution for integration with data platforms is needed (Data lakes, third part systems)
