4 Reasons the OSI PI Data Historian is King of the Market

Data historians are a “must have” technology and among the automation market’s options the PI Historian from OSIsoft is the gold standard. OSIsoft has more-or-less led the historian market from its inception in 1980. The reason: OSI has continuously innovated to assure that the PI Historian is highly efficient and that it provides the preferred platform for higher value data…

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What Do I Need to Know About OSI’s Asset Framework?

Asset Framework from OSIsoft changes a manufacturer’s ability to extract value from plant data. It takes the seemingly infinite number of tags registered within the data historian and organizes them in an intelligent, hierarchical manner. This structure is increasingly valuable as plants apply sensor technologies to more and more equipment for the purpose of monitoring performance.

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What Methods are Available for Accessing OSIsoft’s PI Server?

When someone jumps into a project without thinking things through we’ll often say that he or she took the “hard way”. While the easy way usually involves a little more thought at the start, it typically results in a faster and more satisfactory finish. Racing into a project often results in delays, cost overruns, and general dissatisfaction. This is especially true in the world of software application development. Most every software technology firm can share stories to corroborate the value of a well-planned project versus the hazards of a poorly planned effort.

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What Methods are Available for Accessing OSIsoft's PI Server?

When someone jumps into a project without thinking things through we’ll often say that he or she took the “hard way”. While the easy way usually involves a little more thought at the start, it typically results in a faster and more satisfactory finish. Racing into a project often results in delays, cost overruns, and general dissatisfaction. This is especially true in the world of software application development. Most every software technology firm can share stories to corroborate the value of a well-planned project versus the hazards of a poorly planned effort.

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How Does the PI SDK Benefit Process Optimization Applications Like CLPM?

Have you ever called a customer support line and found yourself talking to the ‘middle man’? That’s the staffer who knows just enough to sound legitimate but not enough to fully answer your questions. That’s the individual who will “get back to you” as he confers with other company resources only to parrot back a partial answer. While the middle man does his best there’s always some amount of information, some detail that’s lost. With its market leading data historian OSIsoft has worked diligently to assure that there’s no middle man when it comes to accessing a manufacturer’s process data.

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