Ideas

With an event frame analysis I search for production downtimes that are longer than 30 min with the "true for" option or a "TimeGE" function. But in this way I allway loose these 30 min at the beginning of my downtime event. So I would like to be ...

AF/EF is used to contextualize the OEE Event. However, because reason codes entries does not include the name of the person who entered the code and/or the time it was entered, we leverage ODBC to gain access to the Event Frame record. Due to th...

Currently, when the Reason of an Event Frame is set as PI Point Data Reference, its value cannot be changed through PI Vision Event Table. Moreover, if you try to change the Reason of a closed Event Frame and currently another Event Frame is open,...

As a PI System admin, I would like event frames with multiple start triggers to match preview results when the parent Event Frame's start time is adjusted during Event Frame reconciliation. Currently we have to take one of the following actions to...

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.

If the Compressing attribute of a PI Point is set to Off, then the compression settings are greyed out, which makes sense because they are irrelevant if Compressing is Off. However, if a PI Point has its Archiving attribute set to Off, nothing is ...

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...