are the tools currently available to make sense of that ocean of data that was unusable until yesterday.
Many feel safe using platforms such as Microsoft Excel, SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for data export and related reporting: tools much more suited to Industrial Analysis they are available on the market and can be real indicators of criticality (indicating possible improvements) in addition to performing the other common functions.
But what are the problems you can face (and solve) thanks to a HISTORIAN?
1) Obviously, a historian (or Historicizer) is a long-term repository of data, lots of data. The historian is the basis for the diagnostics and troubleshooting (D & T): but only if it works correctly.
Always available data (Fault Tolerance), with superior compression capacity and a complete range of tools that allow you to perform ad hoc queries, trends and analyzes: every company should benefit from a Historian for diagnostics and troubleshooting.
2) Compliance with Regulations and Supervisory Notifications. This is important.
Compliance Reports: Writing and completing mandatory documentation in heavily regulated industries (EPA, FDA, LEEDS, AMP, GAMP, AMS-2750 and others) can consume many hours of resources. Moreover, in activities that are not fundamental in process management, but necessary for the qualification, compliance with the regulations and the relative positioning of the product (and of the Company) on the market.
We make these processes easier.
3) Identify critical issues to improve processes.
Performance Reports are the best way to improve your business from the inside. You want to improve quality, increase productivity, reduce downtime – costs and achieve agility: basically analyze every screw. Today you can.
4-5-6) Production / Accounting, Downtime monitoring, energy usage and performance monitoring: advanced analyzes on the performance of the entire system or of a specific area.
We all have BIG DATA in hand, it is the tools that are chosen to read and interpret them that will make the difference.