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Executive Summary
Over the past several years, there have been two significant trends in the industrial marketplace. First, the adoption of even more automation has resulted in an explosion in available data. Second, many companies have an increased focus towards predictive or condition based maintenance and KPI Reporting in order to achieve operational excellence. This quantitative change in the availability of data and in the way it is used, demands a new strategy. Excel and OPC-HDA play an important role in both trends.
The pressure is to do more with less. Process and Equipment data is the life-blood for making that a reality.
Companies have long had industrial assets such as pumps, compressors, boilers, manufacturing devices, and other mechanical equipment. Automation of this equipment through a Distributed Control System (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) from control system vendors has resulted in an explosion of available data. The pressure on everyone is to do more with less, and this data is the life-blood for making that a viable reality. Mechanical maintenance departments need it to move towards predicative or condition based maintenance. Operations need it to enable lean and green initiatives for waste reduction and optimization. It is essential for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to achieve operational excellence. All of that requires data.
The real challenge with Excel is not in presenting the data. Excel is an excellent tool for that. The problems and they are many arise when we start storing data in Excel in CSV.
The the GET common refrain from integrators and engineers aroundand world: CLOSER TO HISTORY WITH OPC I need a way to take some data from my fill in the blank put it
The long standing misperception is that process historians are only worthwhile if you have a large enterprise with millions of points of data. The reality is there are great, low cost, zero-maintenance, standards-based historians available on the market.
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Debunking Historian Myths
Sean Leonard, P.Eng - 2007 The long standing misperception is that process historians are only worthwhile for large enterprises with millions of points of data to maintain. That they are expensive, complicated, and take a team of experts to manage. This is no longer true. There are great low-cost, zero-maintenance, small footprint, standards-based historians available for teams, projects, and small and mid-size corporations.
into Excel. Its only a little bit; besides a historian is overkill. This kind
Data security also becomes a problem with this approach. While it is possible to secure spreadsheets and CSV files, granularity is limited. Furthermore, once open, the file is completely unsecure from certain actions - one accidental Save As is all that is needed to wipe out crucial data. In system design, it has long been acknowledged that an N-Tier approach is one of the better ways to build a system that can be scalable, maintainable and flexible. An N-Tier approach allows the integrator to delegate file management, security, and concentrate on data analysis and delivering value.
SOLUTION
There are four components to the solution:
Excel Reporter
Excel Reporter is an OPC Client for Excel that transforms Excel into a reporting tool for your process and equipment data. Connect to any real-time (OPC DA) or historical (OPC-HDA) data source. Sample reports make getting started a snap. Easily create production, quality and performance reports. Excel Reporter is an out-of-the-box solution that is easy to set up, configure and manage - get up and running in less than 5 minutes.
OPC Trender
MatrikonOPC Trender is an easy to use, standards-based, Plug-and-Play analysis tool. Connect to any data source via OPC DA (Data Access) to gather real-time data, or connect to archived data, such as a process historian, using OPC HDA (Historical Data Access) to retrieve historical data.
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