What is AVEVA PI System?

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AVEVA PI System is an integrated portfolio of solutions that enables industrial operations to collect, cleanse, store, enrich and visualize real-time operations data—with full IT compliance. AVEVA PI System makes it easier for operators, plant managers, data analysts and executives to optimize efficiency, ensure resilience and drive sustainability.

Thousands of companies across the globe rely on AVEVA PI System solutions for data-driven insights that ensure operational excellence, reliability, sustainability, product quality and safety

Store years’ worth of data, so engineers and analysts can discover patterns, trends and visualize data relationships

Unique ‘asset framework’ functionality lets your users easily create reusable and dynamic data structures to view data by asset type, locations, process or any other useful category. These predefined structures let less experienced employees view data in the same way as more experienced staff

The AVEVA PI System portfolio collects, enriches and delivers real-time operations data to users in mission-critical environments

Trend application

Desktop graphing tool for real-time and historical data trend analysis
Pause, play, and replay what happened
Drag and drop data points onto the grid
Customize the chart with a wide range of charting and formatting capabilities: trend charts, single or stacked, X-Y scatter plots, batch trend charts, and more
Utilize retrieval styles to transform data results
Apply annotations for future reference
Overlay alarm details in context to data trends, including acknowledgement information for each alarm
Swap between unit measures on the fly
Embeddable in AVEVA™️ Operations Management Interface, AVEVA InTouch HMI, and AVEVA Plant SCADA

Query application

Desktop query generation tool that easily creates queries, eliminating the need for SQL expertise
Drag and drop selected tag information
Simple checkbox for column addition and removal
Copy and paste constructed queries
Leverage retrieval styles
Retrieve annotations and other appended values
Use standalone, or in tandem with Trend and the Excel add-in

Web application

Interactive web browser application to enable easy searching, analyzing, and sharing of historical information
Comprehensive search that indexes all existing tags, user generated keywords, and content names
Display a variety of charts with drilldown capabilities to address different needs, including the ability to change the chart format, stack axes, pan/zoom, and adjust time scale
View process comments, alarms, and alarm acknowledgements, all captured inline with Historian data
Create, save, and easily share personal content, as well as create, save, and share dashboards based on user-defined keywords

Excel add-in

Pop-in panel add-in for Microsoft Excel designed to simplify the creation of deep data reports using AVEVA Historian data
Filter and select the exact tags you want to import to Excel
Specify the value type: Live values, history values, aggregate values, summary system values, and event snapshot values
Apply all standard Excel functions to imported data
Utilize Tag Analysis to dynamically create graphs and trends, create statistics and return configuration and limit information
Unlimited options to organize and style data

Save reports for repeated use without having to recreate

AVEVA PI System provides a rich set of options for gathering high-fidelity, time series data in real-time from diverse and complex industrial systems – whether they communicate using modern connectivity standards or proprietary, vendor-specific technology

Benefits for operations

Reduce time and effort collecting operational data.
Ensure integrity and availability of critical real-time data.
Give operations staff self-service access to data for faster insight – no programming required

Benefits for business

Facilitate collaboration with a single source of truth
Make years of data easily accessible for predictive analysis.
Rapidly integrate reliable data into analytics platforms, enterprise applications and business intelligence tools

Features

Optimized and proven for industry
Vendor-neutral data collection
Data integrity and reliability
Self-service data access and visualization
Edge to cloud data management
Rapid integration with business analytics

Real-Time Data Access

Access critical data in real-time

Give operators, process engineers, plant managers, and analysts real-time visibility to critical data that lets them quickly assess situations and resolve issues. Industrial operations have relied on AVEVA PI System to optimize operations for over 40 years

Unify Asset Data

Aggregate data from multiple assets

Pull all relevant data into a single datastore to understand historical trends and relationships. Use root-cause analysis to identify critical events and AI-based analytics to predict asset failures and the need for preventative maintenance

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