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PI Advanced Computing Engine (PI ACE)

Component Overview
Allows users to write equations, which are reusable on similar sets of data, with minimal effort.
Component Summary
The PI Advanced Computing Engine (PI ACE) takes the guesswork out of building calculations,
allowing you to focus on turning real-time data into useful information. Writing equations is
easier than ever because PI ACE helps you write them with a minimal amount of code. Even
better, the same ACE calculation can be used in different Universal Data Server (UDS)
installations, a feature that helps you standardize and automate your analysis process.

You can use ACE to help perform analyses, such as asset efficiency calculations or real-time cost
accounting, as well as to create data-transfer programs and applications for paging and
alarming. In fact, ACE can build just about any application that does not require user
intervention. It works closely with the PI Module Database, which provides an organized
structure to UDS resources.

ACE consists of three basic components:

1. ACE Wizard: A Visual Basic Add-In that helps users build ACE Modules quickly and
efficiently

2. ACE Manager: Allows users to monitor and change various properties of ACE Modules

3. ACE Scheduler: Runs as an NT service that executes ACE Modules in a timely manner
and handles updates and abnormal behavior
ACE calculations can be designated to run either on a routine schedule or on a "natural
schedule." The natural scheduling algorithm helps keep your calculations in sync with laboratory
data, manual data, or other data sources that infrequently upload to UDS. If an ACE Module is
set for natural scheduling, that module will execute when all pertinent data have been delivered
to the PI System. Using the most appropriate data available makes your calculations as accurate
as possible.
Technical Overview
PI ACE allows programming of complex calculations (asset efficiency, real-time cost
accounting, batch summary, etc.), communication applications (alarming, emailing,
paging, etc.), and data integration programs.
A set of calculations (or instructions) is implemented in a Visual Basic class module,
which is referred to as an ACE Module. The three components of ACE -- ACE Wizard,

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PROYTEK, S. A. Calle 9 No. 26, La Barraca
Maracay, Venezuela
Proyectos y Tecnologa Telf.&Fax: (58-243) 2328992
e-mail: proytek@cantv.net
Todo en Automatizacin Web: http://www.proytek.com
Mailing address in U.S.A.
AEROCAV No 2005
P.O. Box 02 5304; Miami, FL33102-5304
Telf.&Fax: (011-58-243) 2328992

ACE Manager, and ACE Scheduler -- develop, monitor, manipulate, and execute ACE
Modules.
The ACE Wizard is a Visual Basic Add-In that helps users quickly build and test ACE
Modules. The ACE Manager allows users to monitor and change various properties of
ACE Modules. ACE Scheduler executes ACE Modules in a timely manner and handles
updates and abnormal behavior. The structural information for ACE Modules is stored in
the PI Module Database on PI UDS. The ACE Scheduler and the .exe files for all ACE
Modules must be on one computer.
System Requirements

?? Visual Basic 6 SP5

?? Universal Data Server 3.3 or higher

?? PI SDK 1.1.0.137

?? Windows NT 4.0 SP6 or Windows 2000 SP 1 or later