PI ProcessBook

Features Business Challenge

View Forecasts and Predictions:
Forecast/future data is a powerful
tool for helping you predict resource
requirements and maintenance activities,
forecast production, and perform process
analysis to find differences between
predicted and actual production yields.
With PI ProcessBook 2015, you can now
view future data from the PI Server
alongside real-time and historical data in
your PI ProcessBook trends and displays.
Todays businesses produce a multitude of data that describe in detail almost any aspect
of process performance. However, this wealth of information by itself is not necessarily
meaningful and actionable. To fully understand and act on data, workers need to view
information that is easy to understand, clear, permits comparison and analysis, and helps
them rapidly respond to events as they occur. Businesses also need visualization options
that can be reused, shared throughout the enterprise and be easily modified as operations
and data needs evolve.
Overview
PI ProcessBook helps users instantly access and visualize real-time and historical
PI System data through interactive, graphical, displays. Designed for PC-based users,
PI ProcessBook supports both high-level analysis and data deep dives. Displays can be
simultaneously populated with live data and with years of historical data. Data is presented
however you want to see it be that in trends, bars, dynamic symbols, numeric values, etc.
Displays can be easily modified as and when needed using menus, toolbars, and clicks
without the need for IT assistance or specialized consultants. Once created, displays can be
shared and leveraged throughout the enterprise, maximizing collaboration and information
sharing across time zones and languages.

Depth of Information: PI ProcessBook

adds richness to your data analysis with
its navigation, visualization, and metadata
features. For example you can: drill-down
through data; turn layers of detail on
and off; add annotations to record your
comments, reason codes, etc.; visually
distinguish data thats been flagged as
questionable or substituted; and more.

Customize: Displays can be customized

and enhanced using simple scripts and
controls so you can automate displays,
add buttons or gauges, apply standard
formatting, and more.
Benefits
Share Displays Globally: PI ProcessBook is time zone agnostic. When displays are shared
with users across time zones (with different number and time settings), PI ProcessBook
automatically reformats the data so it displays correctly. This means your workers in
Germany can collaborate (using the same displays) with workers in Russia and the U.S.A.
and each of them see dates, times, and numbers in their local formats and time zones.
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Share Information: PI ProcessBook displays
can be pasted into a variety of third party
applications, for example Microsoft
Outlook, so you can easily share static
data views with non-PI ProcessBook users.
Web Based Visualization: Share your
PI ProcessBook displays with mobile users
through PI Coresight or with internet users
through PI ActiveView or with Microsoft
SharePoint portal users through
PI WebParts.
Advanced Integration: Links to web pages,
Microsoft Word Documents, Microsoft
Excel files (or other command-line
accessible applications) can be added to
PI ProcessBook displays/workbooks so
users can instantly access corporate
best practices, how to videos, etc. while
analyzing PI System data.
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Benefits Continued
High-quality Graphics. With PI ProcessBook, any user can create powerful, professional
looking, displays for visualizing PI System data. With scrolling trends, live video, SQC
charts, XY charts, batch analysis, data values, trends, graphics, and more displays can be
as simple or as detailed as you wish. Comprehensive drawing tools and a built-in symbol
library with over 3,000 images make creating displays easy. With PI ProcessBook you see
data the way you want to see it and you can instantly modify displays as your business
evolves.
Multi-lingual Support. PI ProcessBook supports Simplified Chinese, French, German,
Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish so toolbars, menus, etc. are
available in many languages. With a simple click users can change their language settings
so workers, fluent in different languages, can work together on the same machine.
Information in Context: PI ProcessBook integrates with Asset Framework (AF), leveraging
your asset model to simplify display creation and navigation. You can create a single
display for common assets, equipment, sites, divisions, etc. in your business and use it
to dynamically analyze all like assets throughout your enterprise. In these asset relative
displays, data instantly updates as you click items in the integrated AF asset list. In moments
you can review all turbines in a wind farm, substations on the grid, tanks in your refineries,
etc.; comparing both current data and historical values across your business.
About OSIsoft, LLC
OSIsoft, a global leader in operational intelligence, delivers an open enterprise
infrastructure to connect sensor-based data, operations, and people to enable real-time
and actionable insights. As the maker of the PI System, OSIsoft empowers companies
across a range of industries in activities such as exploration, extraction, production,
generation, process and discrete manufacturing, distribution, and services to leverage
streaming data to optimize and enrich their businesses. For over thirty years, OSIsoft
customers have embraced the PI System to deliver process, quality, energy, regulatory
compliance, safety, security, and asset health improvements across their operations.
Founded in 1980, OSIsoft is a privately-held company, headquartered in San Leandro,
California, U.S.A, with offices around the world. For more information visit
www.osisoft.com.
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