PI Module Database (PI ModuleDB)
Sorts PI System contents into useful groups; helps organize real-time data, stores parameters or specifications, and makes them ready for use in programs and displays.
Component Summary
The ability to archive and hold limitless amounts of data is only useful if those data are accessible. With PI Module Database (PI ModuleDB), you can create hierarchical data trees in a custom structure to fit your specific information needs. You can use PI ModuleDB to represent your entire plant or a specific section. For example, you can build a model of an electrical distribution network, including its feeders, transformers, and breakers. PI ModuleDB will generate time-stamped records of your structures as required. If your configuration changes -- such as a breaker going out of service -- you can note that situation in PI ModuleDB, which will then record not only the historical real-time values, but the system's physical status as well.
PI ModuleDB is flexible enough to incorporate not just data from the PI System, but from foreign sources, too.
PI ModuleDB is easy to use. For instance, when monitoring airflow in a specific valve, users can attach intuitive names, such as "airflow" or "flow rate," and create a visual connection between the real world and the underlying PI tag or point name.
Key Features
- Adds layered hierarchy and structure to data
- Organizes real-time and related data
- Archives additions and changes to the relationship of enterprise data over time
- Allows users to define properties, aliases, headings, and layers
- Saves engineering time by reusing analysis applications built with the PI ModuleDB
- Enables users to see how data are organized, as well as how the data and their sources are connected
- Expands the information capability of PI DataStorage
Applications for the PI Module Database include:
- Maintaining the data structure for a plant, division, or enterprise
- Collecting and grouping KPIs into sets, such as plant, product, or division
- Creating a "family tree" structure for one or more batch operations
- Grouping PI database calculations to standardize, and normalize, methods
- Collecting information related to each process unit or piece of equipment, such as MSDS information, procedure data, drawings, or maintenance records
Technical Overview
The PI ModuleDB is often used in the management of event-driven and batch processes. It groups equipment, operations, and phases in a unified hierarchy and can identify tags by referencing actual pieces of equipment and manufacturing processes.
The PI ModuleDB can maintain "versions" of the collections, hierarchies, or "threads." This capability is particularly valuable when working in transmission and distribution applications, where such variables as new services, phase balancing, and circuit redesign create a constantly changing environment. Since versions are time stamped and kept in history, users can review the PI tag data via aliases in the context of the collection, network, or thread that existed at the designated time segment. Without the context of the environment at the recording time, historical data are virtually useless.
In addition to providing structure, the PI ModuleDB also provides a repository for storing information related to a module, object, or other variable. For example, the properties feature can store such information as numerical items (size of a vessel), text items (MSDS sheets), pictures, and other specifics.
System Requirements
- Intel Pentium (Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000)
- Hewlett-Packard 9000 series (HP-UX version 10.10 or later)
- Sun Sparc (Solaris 2.5 or later)
- Compaq Alpha (Compaq Tru64 UNIX 3.2 or later)
- IBM RS/6000 (AIX 4.2 or later)
- Motorola Power PC (AIX 4.2 or later)
Component Summary
The ability to archive and hold limitless amounts of data is only useful if those data are accessible. With PI Module Database (PI ModuleDB), you can create hierarchical data trees in a custom structure to fit your specific information needs. You can use PI ModuleDB to represent your entire plant or a specific section. For example, you can build a model of an electrical distribution network, including its feeders, transformers, and breakers. PI ModuleDB will generate time-stamped records of your structures as required. If your configuration changes -- such as a breaker going out of service -- you can note that situation in PI ModuleDB, which will then record not only the historical real-time values, but the system's physical status as well.
PI ModuleDB is flexible enough to incorporate not just data from the PI System, but from foreign sources, too.
PI ModuleDB is easy to use. For instance, when monitoring airflow in a specific valve, users can attach intuitive names, such as "airflow" or "flow rate," and create a visual connection between the real world and the underlying PI tag or point name.
Key Features
- Adds layered hierarchy and structure to data
- Organizes real-time and related data
- Archives additions and changes to the relationship of enterprise data over time
- Allows users to define properties, aliases, headings, and layers
- Saves engineering time by reusing analysis applications built with the PI ModuleDB
- Enables users to see how data are organized, as well as how the data and their sources are connected
- Expands the information capability of PI DataStorage
Applications for the PI Module Database include:
- Maintaining the data structure for a plant, division, or enterprise
- Collecting and grouping KPIs into sets, such as plant, product, or division
- Creating a "family tree" structure for one or more batch operations
- Grouping PI database calculations to standardize, and normalize, methods
- Collecting information related to each process unit or piece of equipment, such as MSDS information, procedure data, drawings, or maintenance records
Technical Overview
The PI ModuleDB is often used in the management of event-driven and batch processes. It groups equipment, operations, and phases in a unified hierarchy and can identify tags by referencing actual pieces of equipment and manufacturing processes.
The PI ModuleDB can maintain "versions" of the collections, hierarchies, or "threads." This capability is particularly valuable when working in transmission and distribution applications, where such variables as new services, phase balancing, and circuit redesign create a constantly changing environment. Since versions are time stamped and kept in history, users can review the PI tag data via aliases in the context of the collection, network, or thread that existed at the designated time segment. Without the context of the environment at the recording time, historical data are virtually useless.
In addition to providing structure, the PI ModuleDB also provides a repository for storing information related to a module, object, or other variable. For example, the properties feature can store such information as numerical items (size of a vessel), text items (MSDS sheets), pictures, and other specifics.
System Requirements
- Intel Pentium (Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000)
- Hewlett-Packard 9000 series (HP-UX version 10.10 or later)
- Sun Sparc (Solaris 2.5 or later)
- Compaq Alpha (Compaq Tru64 UNIX 3.2 or later)
- IBM RS/6000 (AIX 4.2 or later)
- Motorola Power PC (AIX 4.2 or later)