I find myself making analytics on child elements which by themselves have limited value, but are needed to get rollup analyses to work. This adds complexity to the design of AF. Two ideas would improve this:
1) Count # of attributes that meet a c...
Event Frames Scalability - For Customer Advisory Lab Scenarios
#of assets (in this specific scenario): 500-1000
EF Count: Generation rate of 25,000/day peak, would like to historize for 1+y = 9,000,000 events+
Attributes: 5-10 attributes/event (static or PI Point)
Flat Hierarchy
Queries: EF are alarms or ...
Keeping old events that have been manually worked on in case of Recalculation/Backfill
Case 1.
There are some EFs that should be acknowledged and commented by equipment owners. In Pharma World, these comments qualify as GxP and shall not be deleted. Whereas Event Frames generated by analysis can sometimes due to data coming late or ...
Option to write EF template attribute result back into a PI-tag
Creating a possibility to populate PI-tag's based on the Events. These PI-tag's can be used in reports/displays. Generating batch, daily, hourly, shift and other "event" driven values and store them in a specific PI-tags would very easy and may re...
PI AF Linked Tables used for Time-Series Data with OOO events
As AF Table Lookup Data Reference is configured with a time column in order to support cashing, edits of the following types to the table data will not be picked up by AF Clients:
1- Update the value of an Existing record/Event
2- Add a ne...
Improve "Force Creating SQL Database before PI AF Install"
When doing a fresh installation of AF Server, and either the "Validate SQL Connection" option or other Software like PI Notifications, RTQP Engine are selected, the installation cannot be started when the AF SQL Database is not called "PIFD".
As t...
Enable PI Point value retrieval methods for Digital PI Points.
We have found great use for the PI Point Value Retrieval Methods available for PI Point attributes. One such use is for displaying downtime percentage for numerous assets on a PI Vision page. The downtime percentage can be calculated for any inter...
Working with AF Analysis the following usability enhancements are requested.
1. Clicking on an analysis variable to edit it would automatically put your cursor at the beginning of the variable string. Current behavior is: you click on...
PSE Analysis Preview Results to indicate the origin of the event times
In PI System Explorer, when using the Preview Results function for analyses, I want the dialog to indicate which of the input attributes the current timestamp originates from.
Example: Two inputs with update frequency 1 min, Input1 without offset...
The ability to see all event frames for a specified range in a time-based report.
Currently, RtReports doesn't have any capability to list existing Event Frames, whether from specific elements or by any criteria and the only Event Frame reporting...