1998 PI System Users’ Conference 1997 Year in Review Technical Perspective by Don Smith.

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

1997 Year in Review

Technical Perspectiveby

Don Smith

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

It was a good year?

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1998 PI System Users’ Conference

ProductsTechnical SupportField ServiceTrainingWeb informationSystem Evolution

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

Process-BookA beta yearOne giant step for OSI, VBA

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

PI Data Archive (PI3)Version 3.2 releasedBatch subsystemPerformance equations TotalizerSupport for SMT (system management)Performance from profiling

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

PI-DataLinkversion 1.7 betaExcel Office97 support (large arrays)PI3 data types

• float 16,32,64; integer 16,32

• digital states (state sets); text variables

• time stamp enhanced

Percent good revealed

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

PI Profiles, a picture windowsurface representation (high data density)Product view (batch numbers)Grade plotting; Defect over-plotFast drawingRoll / Set

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

Batch Vue - release 2.0 (trends & sheets)ODBC - friendly relations againPI-Manual InputPINET for PI3 & PI on PINET

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

How about those Vax’s

Still king of the hill (surprised?)PI-SMT support

Tag ConfigurationPI-HealthCheck (version 2.12)

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

A good year making friendsInterfacing

Core technologyThe OSI way

our secret exposed: UniIntOne program

VAX, UNIX, WindowsThe only interface program

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UniInt

Configuration consistencymany copies of interfacemany scan classeslogging consistencydata rate tagsoutputspinet queing / exception support built-in

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

PI-OPC is also UniInt75 pages of codeUpgradeable interfacesrun as NT service; buffering

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1. Beckman LIMS on HP-UX2. Event Logger on Intel NT3. Ulma 3D Hole Detector via TCP/IP on

VMS4. ModbusPlus on Intel NT5. Landis & Gyr 8500 on VAX/VMS6. Bailey Infi90 SEMAPI on Intel NT

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7. Moore ICI on Intel NT8. MXOpen on Intel NT9. Relational Database interface on Intel

NT and Alpha 10. Fisher-Rosemount CHIP on HP-UX11. Intellution FIX DMACS on Intel NT12. MAX Control Systems MAX 1000.

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13. Bailey System 6 on Intel NT14. Teledyne Vector SCADA; Intel NT15. Bailey Infi 90 on Alpha NT16. Chicago Dial Indicator Interface on

Intel NT, OpenVms17. Simens Teleperm-M/ME, CS275; NT18. Fisher-Rosemount RNI on HP-UX

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19. Yokogawa YGW (Gateway) Interface on Intel NT, Alpha NT, OpenVMS

20. Yokogawa ACG Interface on Intel NT, Alpha NT, OpenVMS

21. Bliss Interface on Intel NT22. Yokogawa 2400 Datalogger on Intel NT23. ABB Simcon PCAP on VAX OpenVms

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24. SOCCS on DUX25. ABB 1190 on NT26. Valmet OASyS on DUX

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Contractor partners

Informetrics (David Sudikoff)MatrikonRovisysQueue SystemsWayne Isaacs

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

Technical Support

“Those Guys do an amazing job”Dedicated support staff

Escalation team

250 calls per day

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Services

Field service team - Seattle dispatchedService partnersTrainingProduct delivery

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

View from home

Aquarium (300gal, saltwater reef)Aquacontroller

temp, pH, ORP, switch outputs

Temperature, sunlight, moonlight, wave motion, calendar functions

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View from the Sea

Home computer

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View from the Sea

PI to PI Link

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

Let’s check the Aquarium

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

It was a good

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