Advanced Historian

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Solutions for Process, Manufacturing and Facilitiesi n v e n t i n g p r o g r e s s

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Plant Information Management System

Every business strives for increasing production and decreasing maintenance and operational costs in order to maximize revenue and a world class plant information management system is the first step to achieve this goal.

SENSYS state of the art Plant Information Management System (PIMS) DataMAX is designed to provide comprehensive real time and historical analysis of plant information to achieve operational excellence. DataMAX offers a central platform for enterprise wide visibility of operations which enhances cross functional collaboration and, therefore, accounts for better decision making.

DataMAX offers a complete data management solution built on a highly robust, tremendously versatile and truly agile architecture and caters all of your current and future requirements. DataMAX beautifully simplifies the arduous task of managing your entire plant floor data through its user friendly environment which runs through out the product and enables users to perform unparalleled data analysis. DataMAX redefines the role of a high performance and high data integrity real time historian for all key stakeholders related to operations, maintenance, engineering and management. It’s a unified system designed to align business and technical processes.

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Asset ManagementApplication

BusinessApplications

Decision SupportSystem

DatabaseSystems

Laboratory Information Management Application

HMI/ SCADA

Third Party Historian

Data Plant Information Management SystemData

OPC-ODBC-Data Connectors

Control LAN

Scalable

ConditionMonitoring

PowerManagement Fire & Gas Safety Shutdown Skid Packages

ManagementMaintenance Operations Engineering

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Business Benefits

Enterprise wide Visibility of operations

DataMAX provides a visualization dashboard to all the key stakeholders in an enterprise. In one unified platform, every key personnel whether he is related to engineering, maintenance, production or management, can access his relevant information which results in improved collaboration across the enterprise and enhances decision making. Real time feel and historical data analysis are made available to all the stakeholders locally as well as remotely and each key player remains in touch all the time with the events that occur across the plantfloor and hence provides a single version of truth.

Reducing maintenance costs through condition based and predictive maintenance

The challenge of integrating computerized maintenance management system with real time plant floor data in order to ensure condition based maintenance has become an absolute necessity these days. This enables creation of automatic work orders within the CMMS system according to the events that occur on plant assets. DataMAX provides seamless integration with CMMS systems through industry standard interfaces there-fore provides real time condition based maintenance. This result is massive inventory squeeze and huge reduction in maintenance costs. DataMAX Analytical interface provides tools to carry out predictive maintenance and save costs associated with calendar based maintenance activities. DataMAX therefore justifies your return on investment instantly as it plays such a vital role in cutting down maintenance and operational costs.

Increasing production through comprehensive downtime analysis

Needless to say that any manufacturing facility craves for increase in production and production is indirectly proportional to downtime. Minimizing downtime maximizes plant availability and ultimately increasesConnectivity plant’s production. DataMAX revolutionizes the way of performing downtime analysis through its powerful Analytical features which extensively cover Alarm and Event Management and backtracks to the root cause of the problems that occur. You can drill down to the root cause of any problem and ensure that such actions are refrained from in the future to decrease your downtime and increase productivity.

Enforcing regulatory compliance across the enterprise

Proper implementation of Regulatory compliance has become

ever so important in order to ensure quality of business products and is also one of the main factors around which risk manage ment is done. Regulatory compliance is especially a must for batch industries like pharmaceutical and food where organiza-tions need to carefully monitor the records in electronic form that are modified, archived, retrieved, or transmitted under any records requirements set forth by regulatory authorities. Data-MAX fully complies with FDA regulation 21 CFR part11 and allows to keep complete track of events that occur on plant floor layer. In addition, DataMAX is built on windows authentication security to completely track electronic signatures of each user in the company to ensure accountability.

Improve decision making through Advanced KPI Calculation and Analysis

Importance of exact calculation and careful analysis can never be overstated in today’s competitive business world since they impact the entire profitability and strategy of a business. Data-MAX provides advanced process functions to precisely calculate your KPIs. In addition the bulilt in MAXAnalyst tool provides comprehensive drill down analysis through its analytical tools. This drastically improves decision making and ultimately lever-ages output.

Minimize your deployment costs

Cutting down configuration and deployment costs plays an important role in overall controlling business costs. DataMAX

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Business Benefits

comes with “Deploy Once, Use anywhere” philosophy and deliv-ers lowest multi server deployment with lowest cost and without any performance compromises. Its reusable component archi-tecture saves configuration and engineering time. With DataMAX, there is never a need to visit the facility physically because DataMAX comes with web based (remote) engineering features. Also, DataMAX extremely simple licensing saves significant time and cost on license management. DataMAX smart web based clients ensures that license is only deployed on the server side and no installation is required on the client side.

Integration with Business and Plant Applications

Integration of Plant floor data with Business and Plant applica-tions is becoming a norm these days since the world is quickly moving towards a central integrated solution from which they can analyze their entire business process and reduce maintenance and operational costs. DataMAX not only feeds plant data at real time to other business and plant applications but also offers a central visualization dashboard. This enables the users to view all of their business layers through one portal and therefore removes the pain of managing multiple applications across the enterprise. Provides seamless integration with applications like SAP, Maximo etc.

Technical Benefits

Unmatched Reliability

Reliability is the foremost requirement of any plant information management system. DataMAX comes with a completely fault tolerant server architecture. DataMAX ensures round the clock availability of data. In a geographically distributed solution, it ensures automatic synchronization of databases in case of any communication infrastructure break down. All in all, DataMAX lives to ensure that not a single point historization at any instant is missed.

Realtime High Data Integrity

DataMAX fully realizes the importance of lossless data storage and ensures high data integrity in most stringent of conditions.

Ultimate Scalability

DataMAX is based on an extremely scalable architecture and offers the functionality of multi server and multi client plug and play. It has the ability to collect data from disparate units into a central data repository. DataMAX can start off with very small number of points and later on can be scaled to hundreds and thousands of points simply by replacing the old server license file by the new one. This doesn’t even require a server shutdown or restart and therefore saves any downtime, whatsoever.

Robustness

DataMAX has the ability to handle huge loads of data under extensively rugged environment without any server breakdown. Whether it is a rough environment of cement or stressful condi-tions of power, DataMAX comes with stability of the highest order. Even under these challenging conditions, DataMAX offers instant retrieval of data.

Secure

DataMAX gives you the power of implementing rolebased granu-lar security across the enterprise. You can control the rights of users as per your requirements. Furthermore, DataMAX security is powered by windows authentication, meaning that your Plant Information Management System can use the exact security model that applies to your corporate network. In addition, Data-MAX comfortably accommodates multi layer firewall and network configuration to protect data from unauthorized access and tampering.

Simplified Engineering and Configuration

Technical complexity is a major hindrance in the engineering field since it is directly proportional to consumption of man hours. DataMAX expertly addresses that problem by providing extremely flexible engineering environment. DataMAX offers the power of concurrent engineering in which multiple engineers can configure the project on a single server at real time and all the changes are incorporated into the project instantly without the need to restart any application which signifantly reduces engineering man hours.

Inaddition DataMAX inherently comes with the concept of object templates in shape of MAXObjects which utilizes the power of software reusability to its fullest and cuts down engineering time.

In addition its single framework provides access to all modules on a single platform. This completely removes the pain of managing multiple window applications for engineering and configuration of projects.

Simplified LicensingDataMAX revolutionizes the way of licensing with its concept of Smart Web Based Clients. Now you can save your hours on managing multiple complex licensing philosophies. DataMAX requires a single license file to be deployed on the DataMAX Server Machine. There is no need to install any license on the client machine since any machine can become a client. This removes the concept of seed based clients and enables users to fully utilize the concept of web applications.

Interoperability

DataMAX supports a concurrent multiserver multiclient architec-ture and supports interoperability of the highest order. It can gather data from multiple DataMAX servers and other third party servers over OPC and ODBC. DataMAX can act as a server and client through OPC DA (Data Access), HDA (Historical Data Access) and A & E (Alarms and Events). DataMAX plug and play server functionality puts it in a different class altogether.

Ease of Use

DataMAX comes with a single integrated framework and offers an extremely user friendly environment to work in. Its integrated framework allows users to access every module from a single platform. The inherent MAXAnalyst enables instant resource switching and simplifies navigation with the system.

Key Features

DataMax allows for high speed, secure, reliable, and configu-rable data collection and analysis, providing historical and real-time actionable information on your processes and production. Some of the key features that DataMAX offers are:

Alarm and Event Historization

DataMAX DA and A&E data collection and logging ensure main-tenance of vast amounts of data in long-term history to enable user access and application integration.

This requires guaranteed end to end ZERO % data loss espe-cially in a distributed architecture. The data includes Value, timestamps and quality (from DA sources such as PLCs, DCSs, RTUs) and ‘Alarms&Events generation’ inside DataMAX. The challenge is to communicate the huge flux across the client Server chains and store it inside the server with fast and efficient retrieval. DataMAX historian supports data cache: a database that redundantly stores data in a format that is streamlined for faster retrieval. This enables:

Data acquisition and storage of thousands of events per second.

Instant Retrieval time (and rendering time) on

Historical Trends and Reports through advanced sampling algorithms.

User (custom) defined Log Groups

Ability to configure hundreds of thousands of tags/points.

Centralized Data Repository

DataMAX DA and A&E data collection and logging ensure main-tenance of vast amounts of data in long-term history to enable user access and application integration.

DataMAX distributed architecture ensures that data can be collected from disparate data sources into a single consistent database. Following are the key features:

Data Acquisition from multiple DA and A&E sources

The concept of SCADA partner allows commenting/annotations on distributed data remotely from the central node.

Distributed live storage locations

Time and Event based scheduling of backups creation.

Provision of Historical Data Access to other parties.

Smooth One Click Display Navigation

DataMAX comes with the functionally of MAXAnalyst which provides smooth navigation with in projects. Its one click naviga-tion provides instant analysis of parameters. Users can seam-lessly switch controls/resources and parameters can be viewed in Real Time and Historical Trends and Alarm Controls in a click of a button.

DataMAX also provides user visualization and operations (data) controls to analyze the logged data using A&E (EEMUA191 compliant charts, A&E controls (history / current) and DA data trends (history / real). The analysis can be applied anywhere in the project (Screen, Trends, A & E controls and charts).

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Primary Secondary

Cache

A&E Log-Group

A&E Data Server

A&E Server

A&E Service

Attaching remote A&E log groupsto DataMAX

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HDA Server

HDA Service

Annotation from DataMAX

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Key Features

Multi server data aggregation and analysis

DataMAX comes with an inbuilt ability of aggregating data from multiple sources/servers and provides advanced analysis on it.

DataMAX Aggregation displays and EEMUA 191 compliant A&E charts allow users to apply engineering and business knowledge to historical data, while built-in engineering unit conversions help users view data in a format that makes sense to them in form of derived tags. (e.g the derived tags).

Aggregate data may be combined with business data to provide a view of the entire operation.

Open Connectivity

An open scalable architecture is a must for modern technological systems and that’s what DataMAX is built on. It can interact with other system over multiple interfaces. DataMAX can connect to other applications over OLEDB with its OLEDB Provider and OPC. Also comes with Historical Automation Wrapper for acquiring historical data. It can also connect with third party applications via webservices and its own data connectors. DataMAX itself comes with 175 native drivers for communication with various devices over different protocols.

Advanced Reporting

ReportMax offers comprehensive data export to excel, resulting in the creation of complex and content rich reports available on demand at the click of a button. Share, collaborate, and act to keep your enterprise functioning flawlessly by harnessing the power of ReportMax.

Reports are available in Excel, PDF and Web Formats. Comes with complete excel capabilities to calculate advanced and complex formulae through standard excel functions. It also contains chart displays.

Advanced Data Compression Techniques DataMAX comes with special compression algorithms to optimize the disk space utilization for storing data. This drastically decreases the over head of disk space management for custom-ers.

Comprehensive Archive Management

DataMAX offers multiple archives to be attached to it at any time

and performs smooth historical analysis on it. This includes :

Portable history backups.

Link in place: Enables the users to link up with the history backups at different servers without copying operation.

Availability of data from number of backups

Event Server and 21CFR11

DataMAX fully complies with FDA regulation 21 CFR and allows to keep complete track of events that occur on plant floor layer. In addition, DataMAX is built on windows authentication security to completely track electronic signatures of each user in the company to ensure accountability.

Real time and Historical trend visualization

DataMAX offers state of the art trending facility for historical and real time analysis of parameters. DataMAX trending module comes with:

Facility to annotate parameters.

Configuration of font style and size

Customizable Trend Printing

Multiple grid support

Alarm Control Limit Display

Display of Advanced Processed Functions

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Key Features

Role based Granular Security

DataMAX comes with role based granular security and enables organizations to implement n-level security. Administrator can easily control the level of privileges that need to be given to Engineers, operators, managers etc.

DataMAX also provides windows authentication in order to align the product security with your corporate network security.

KPI Calculation

You can now calculate your Key Performance indicators through Advanced Calculation Engine and Processed Functions. Users can drill down for in depth information regarding KPIs.

Accumulators

Accumulators are an important tool since they are used to keep

track of incremental runtime data like run hours of equipment and DataMAX comes with Accumulators with which you can keep a close eye on.

Resulability of Components DataMAX comes with the concept of MAXObjects which utilizes the power of software reusablity. Its a totally object oriented approach which reduces man hours by creating an object template and then reusing it to instantiate objects.

Verstility and Flexibility

DataMAX is based on a completely flexible and versatile archi-tecture. It is completely aligned with the proven standards and platforms in the industry.

Figure 06 elaborates the standards that DataMAX supports:

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Platform

Windows 2003 serverXP ProfessionalMinimum Core 2 Duo machines with atleast 2 GB RAM

Security

Role basedWindows AuthenticationFirewallAntivirus

Visualization

WebXL Reports

3rd Party A&E and H D A clientsRemote

Local

Network

EthernetWireless EthernetRadio Frequency

Connectivity

OPCWeb Services

HttpOLEDBODBC

ADO

Application Tools

Developer Studio

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