• Connected Services: A Real-Time Information Framework to Transform Aftermarket Services

    Across all industries, technical domain experts are retiring and being replaced by less experienced workers. Industrial machines – many of which incorporate embedded connectivity or sensitive intellectual property - are becoming more complex, and the number of machine and sensor-based data sources is constantly growing. As a result, industries are relying more and more on outsourced expertise to manage asset health, process optimization, and quality control. In today’s global and competitive marketplace, service providers differentiate their value to their customers by streamlining their cost of service, improving their recommendations, and reducing time-to-solution. Growing their businesses requires that service providers maintain and update intellectual property, optimize staff and adopt appropriate cost structures to maximize market penetration. This paper discusses the advantages of adopting a Connected Services framework to transform the business value of aftermarket services.
    Year: 2015

    Getting Results Using the PI System and Big Data

    In a series of explorations pertaining to the use of the PI System™ and various types of "NoSQL" type solutions, great emphasis was placed upon the implementation and scope of the target problem space. Specific attention was placed on producing better quality data so that validated, trustworthy data was produced from a single, reliable infrastructure. This helped maximize the reusability of the effort involved in delivering trustworthy, instantly usable, operational data in context. Because of the similarities of certain elements of the PI System to certain NoSQL technology types, the qualities that differentiate the results of an implementation will substantially rely upon dividing the tasks of maintaining a rich, durable "system of record" and an agile analysis platform. The long term total cost of ownership involved in solving the initial problem, maintaining the solution, and solving new use cases as they arise in an "infrastructure-oriented" (rather than point-solution) manner will guide architecture choices as these implementations cross operational and business boundaries.
    Year: 2014

    Where Business Intelligence Gets Its Intelligence

    Business analytics, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies will transform virtually every aspect of the economy in the coming decades. One of the biggest stumbling blocks, however, remains capturing, organizing and delivering the vast amounts of data from sensors, industrial equipment, power supplies and other operational technologies (OT) in a timely fashion to achieve genuine, actionable insights for information technology (IT). Too often, this data—the raw material of business analytics—remains landlocked in disparate systems and getting it out requires inordinate amounts of time and money. OSIsoft brings OT and IT together through its PI System and PI Integrator technology. The PI System captures, cleanses, augments, and shapes OT data from thousands of disparate systems, often using hundreds of connectors, and then transmits analytics-ready data in a coherent fashion to IT systems. By combining the PI System with Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, R Services, Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence (Azure ML), companies can dramatically accelerate their digital transformation and IoT strategies.
    Year: 2016

    7 Steps to Bring Operations Data to Your Enterprise

    Deploying software across the enterprise is easy. Making sure it works and delivers value... that’s another story. Mera Group has implemented PI Systems for industry leaders in oil and gas, pipelines and mining organizations. The deployments vary from small site solutions with hundreds of tags to complex enterprise PI Systems with millions of tags. Over 17 years, Mera has developed a proven process to transition clients to an enterprise PI System. In this white paper, Heather Quale, President of Mera Group, shares their seven-step process for successful enterprise deployments.
    Year: 2018

    myOSIsoft: Why, What and When Things are Changing

    myOSIsoft will be the home to all of your digital interactions with OSIsoft to better streamline and keep track of all that you do with us. The biggest tool in that arsenal is the OSIsoft Customer Portal where you will be able to interact with your support cases, manage who has access to support and the portal, download products and conduct integrated searches throughout OSIsoft's resources. This webinar walks through the specifics of what's changing from today's experience, reviews when these tools launch and arms you with resources to be ready on March 4th.Download the Presentation Slides > ...
    Year: 2019