2009-12-16 - Builders Café Webinar Series - Programming With Event Frames (1)

Copyright © 2009 OSIsoft, LLC

PROGRAMMING WITH EVENT FRAMES

BUILDERS' CAFÉ WEBINAR SERIES


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AGENDA

• Vision

• Architecture ( )

• Programming ( )

• Availability

• Q&A


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PRESENTERS

• Chris Coen

– Product Manager

• Chris Nelson

– Software Development Lead

• Steve Pilon

– vCampus Team Member


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VCAMPUS-EXCLUSIVE WEBINARS

• The Builders' Café Webinar Series

• Submit your ideas here:


EVENT FRAMES - THE VISION


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EVENT FRAMES ADD TIME CONTEXT

time


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time

Normal


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time

Normal Abnormal


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time

Normal Abnormal Corrective


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EVENT FRAME DEFINITION

• Your terms Any event in your process:

– downtime event

– incident event

– material transfer event

– equipment maintenance event

– batch processing step

– specific investigation

– six-sigma project

– electrical power outage

– safety incident

Any time range or repeatable set of time ranges:

– shifts

– day

– week

– month

– year to date

– etc.

• Our terms A time series data type defined by two times and optionally accompanied by supporting data


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EVENT FRAMES AND BATCH

Event Frames != Batch

Event Frames > Batch

Batch Є Event Frames


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USE SCENARIOS

• Repeatable Time Periods

• Downtime/Incident/Accident

• Discrete Manufacturing

• Equipment Startup and Shutdown

• Paper/Roll Manufacturing

• Semi-continuous Manufacturing

• Material Tracking

• Batch Processing

• OSIsoft Internal Applications


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PRIMARY REQUIREMENTS

• Provide an extensible data structure that could model many more use cases in addition to S88 and S95 –

ensure industry agnostic functionality

• Provide additional indexing other than time

• Increase overall system performance

• Increase support for PI System aspects; scalable, available, reliable, extensible, secure, and

interoperable.


EVENT FRAMES - THE ARCHITECTURE


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EVENT FRAMES ENHANCE AF

• Integrate Event Frame data types into a base object and common infrastructure

– Batch Database Objects, Transfer Records, AF Transfers, AF Cases, Notification History, etc.

• Leverage AF infrastructure and concepts

– Use and extend AF Element Templates

– Model and store supporting data as AF Attributes

– Event Frames can refer to other AF Objects

– Relate Event Frames through Reference Types


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EVENT FRAMES ENHANCE AF

PI System Explorer

PI AF Server

Service

Operations

AF SDK

Stored Procedures Functions Triggers Tables

SQL Server

UI Controls

New Physical Schema

Enhanced Indexing

Vertical data partitioning

Additional RPCs

Bulk Operations

Buffered Operations (Release 2)

Flexible, extensible object structures

Enhanced Search functionality

Editing

Searching

Browsing

Re-usable controls


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EVENT FRAMES BASICS DURING DEMO

• Event Frame Templates

• Event Frame Data Type

– What’s fixed and what’s extensible

– How related to Elements

• Relating Event Frames to each other


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DEMONSTRATION


EVENT FRAMES - PROGRAMMING


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THE OSISOFT SDKS

• PI SDK – PI Points (Attributes & Data)

– PI Server Message Log

– Various PI Databases (Users & Groups, etc.)

• AF SDK – AF Databases, Elements, Attributes

– AF Analysis Rules (ARs) and Data References (DRs)

– AF Connectivity Models and Cases

– Notification Configuration (including Delivery Channel)

– Event Frames

• Notifications SDK (a.k.a. AN SDK) – Notification Instances


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PROGRAMMING WITH AF SDK

• Assemblies (installed in GAC – Global Assembly Cache)

– OSIsoft.AFSDK

– OSIsoft.AF.UI


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PROGRAMMING WITH AF SDK

• Assemblies (installed in GAC – Global Assembly Cache)

– OSIsoft.AFSDK

– OSIsoft.AF.UI

• Help Files (vCampus Library)

– AF Programming Reference

– AF User Interface Components Reference

• Manage/Find Event Frames – Event Frames, Attributes

• Manage Library – Templates, Tables

• Invoke Common Dialog Windows

• ...


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EVENT FRAMES WITHIN AF SDK

• Object model


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EVENT FRAME TEMPLATES

• Identical to AF Element Templates, with an instance type of Event Frame

1. Create the Element Template object

2. Set the instance type

• Add Attribute Templates to an Event Frame Template

exactly like AF Element Templates


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EVENT FRAMES RELATIONSHIPS

• Event Frames can relate to other Event Frames through AFReferenceTypes

1. Create the Child Event Frame Template

2. Create an AFReferenceType

3. Set the Allowed Element Template Properties


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EVENT FRAME DATA TYPE

• Create the Event Frame from the Template and then set the value of the Attributes

1. Create the Event Frame instance

2. Set the Start and End Times

3. Set the value of the Attributes


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OSISOFT.AF.UI NAMESPACE

• Exposes several controls and dialog windows

• Help and examples

– AF User Interface Components Reference


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EVENT FRAME UI EXAMPLE


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• 3 out-of-the-box controls PISystemPicker

AFDatabasePicker

AFViewControl


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• 3 out-of-the-box controls

• Button w/ 5 lines of code

PISystemPicker

AFDatabasePicker

AFViewControl

Button


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PROGRAMMING DEMO


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HELP IN AF SDK PROGRAMMING REFERENCE


EVENT FRAMES - AVAILABILITY


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COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW (CTP)

• CTP now available – Available via Event Frames blog

– Delivered within AF 2.1 bits

• Feature complete in AF 2.1 – SDK (within AF SDK)

– Database

– Full suite of automated regression tests

• Please note that: – We will not guarantee application compatibility with this

version

– Performance work is currently in progress

– HA through SQL mirroring or clustering only


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EVENT FRAMES CTP

• Exclusive to OSIsoft vCampus

• Feedback and questions on the discussion forum

– Discussion Hall > Event Frames Development

• Examples, thoughts and announcements on the blog

– http://vCampus.osisoft.com/blogs/EventFrames

RSS Feeds


CONCLUSION


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Q & A

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2009-12-16 - Builders Café Webinar Series - Programming With Event Frames (1)