• Embarking on a Journey with the PI System

    Constellium Rolled Products is a Global Aluminum Products manufacturer. The Ravenswood facility’s main product is Aerospace & Defense Department plate and automotive coil. Customer requirements for tighter thickness tolerances and better surface quality have resulted in control system upgrades and a move towards tighter integration of the different manufacturing systems. The need to capture, analyze and visualize data across all of the manufacturing systems has resulted in the Ravenswood facility selecting the OSIsoft PI System as their manufacturing real-time data infrastructure.
    Year: 2016

    Using PI Integrators to Improve the Value of Your PI System Data(2)

    A critical component of digital transformation is ensuring that the people and tools your organization utilizes can easily access critical sets of data. This past year OSIsoft announced a new class of products called PI Integrators. The PI Integrator for Business Analytics, PI Integrator the for SAP HANA and PI Integrator for Esri ArcGIS are three of the first releases.
    Year: 2016

    The Journey from Historian to Buisness Intelligence

    Scrubgrass Generating is an 85 mw fluid bed power plant that reclaims mine sites by cleanly burning abandoned coal piles around Pennsylvania and returning a stable limestone and ash product to the mine site as beneficial use fill. When their power purchase agreement (PPA) ended in 2013, Scrubgrass began a new operating mode as a PJM merchant power generator and began selling power in open market.  ...
    Year: 2016

    PI Coresight 2016: New Vision, New Display Editor, New Look and Feel(8)

    Today’s workforce is increasingly mobile, with forecasts predicting that nearly three quarters of the workforce will be mobile within a few years. PI Coresight 2016 brings a new look, exciting capabilities, and marks the first step in the transformation to provide you with an integrated visualization infrastructure. See how you can take advantage of a new display editor that works on any device, whether desktop, tablet, or phone.
    Year: 2016

    Digital Transformation with Today's PI System(5)

    Our world is getting smarter and more connected with each passing day. The question that each business must face, therefore, is how to take advantage of this intelligence. One answer is to harness that intelligence to achieve a digital transformation. Achieving that transformation involves more fully embracing and leveraging both that digital intelligence and the data infrastructures that are already owned and in place.
    Year: 2016