FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition

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FactoryTalk Historian: Agenda

1. Why do we need Historians?

2. FactoryTalk Historian SE Data Access
3. FactoryTalk Historian SE Configuration
4. Sample Architecture & Summary
5. Question & Answer

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FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition

Section 1: Why do we need Historians?

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Section 1: Why do we need Historians?

Transactional vs. Time-Series Data
Transactional Data
Set of data in a data-processing area in which the incidence of the data
is essentially random and unpredictable; hours worked, quantities
shipped, and amounts invoiced are examples from the areas of payroll,
accounts receivable, and accounts payable, respectively.
Source - Answers.com

Time-Series Data
Quantities that represent or trace the values taken by a variable over a
period such as a month, quarter, or year. Time-series data occurs
wherever the same measurements are recorded on a regular basis.
Source BusinessDictionary.com

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Section 1: Why do we need Historians?

Market Drivers and Industries
Market drivers for Historian software:
Changing customer demands, market/economic pressures, and the
need to continuously improve manufacturing/industrial operations
Demand for the capture and storage of high-speed, time-series
production data
Relation Database Management Systems (RDBMS) are not easily
adapted (and difficult to maintain) when acquiring, storing, and
reporting large volumes of time-series data over extended periods of
time
Historians are utilized across many industries and applications:
Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, Automotive, Life Sciences
Continuous Process, Packaging, Material Routing, and more

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Section 1: Why do we need Historians?

To support critical activities and initiatives!
Do you need to collect time-series data for the purpose of ..
Optimizing Production Process
Monitor and improve asset utilization
Increase yield / decrease downtime / improve actual availability

Improving Product Quality

Determine root causes for variability
Decrease scrap and rework

Centralized Data Collection and Storage for Compliance

Regulatory entities (EPA, DEP, FDA, etc.)
Satisfying customer requirements and limiting liabilities

Monitoring, Optimizing, and Reducing Energy Consumption

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Section 1: Architectural Overview

FactoryTalk Historian SE Clients

FactoryTalk Historian Client Tools

Various tools for specific purposes

FactoryTalk Historian SE
Server
Other Information Systems
- ERP
- Maintenance
- LIMS
- RDBMS
- SQC

FactoryTalk Historian SE Server

Utilizes OSI PI Enterprise Pro Technology
Compresses and stores data in a time-series
archive based on point definition
Interface Node
Touch point to the control system
communicates with underlying devices
Performs data capture (snapshot) based on
individual point configuration

Interface node

Data Source
(DCS, PLC)

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Section 2: Data Access and Client Tools

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Section 2: Data Access and Client Tools

Data Presentation Options
FactoryTalk View SE Trend Native Trend Object
Supports FactoryTalk Historian SE as a data source for pens
No additional licensing required

OLE-DB
Provides custom client access (Ex: Microsoft SQL Reporting Services)
No additional licensing required

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Section 2: Data Access and Client Tools

FactoryTalk VantagePoint
FactoryTalk VantagePoint Overview:
Preferred web-based presentation client for
FactoryTalk products including
FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition
Server and single client license to be
included with FactoryTalk Historian 2.2
purchase
Key Deliverables:
Install server and connect to FactoryTalk data sources
Web-based zero install client
View pre-configured reports, trends, and dashboards
Register for the upcoming
Discover Webcast Series FactoryTalk VantagePoint at
Discover.rockwellautomation.com/go/webcasts

Alarm and Event Reports

Product Reports
Control Loop Reports

Non-programmer can build, publish a new report in

less than a day

Data Access
User Experience Demonstration
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Section 3: Data Collection Configuration

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Section 3: Data Collection Configuration

Ease of Configuration
Common Configurations Tools

FactoryTalk Administration Console

FactoryTalk View Studio

Initial Configuration Auto Discover / Auto Configure

No need to know the controller names/address or the tags inside

Auto discover controllers in the name space
Auto configure tags based on templates

Configuration Modifications

System Management Tools (SMT)

Command Line Utilities

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Section 3: Data Collection Configuration

Discovery Rules
Auto Configure based on simple and easy-to-configure rules:

Data Collection Configuration

User Experience Demonstration
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FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition

Section 4: Sample Architecture and Summary

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Section 4: FactoryTalk Historian SE

Sample Architecture
Client Tools
-FactoryTalk View SE Trends
-FactoryTalk VantagePoint

Other Information Systems

- ERP
- Maintenance
- LIMS
- RDBMS
- SQC

FactoryTalk Historian SE
Server

Interface node

Data Source
(DCS, PLC)

FactoryTalk Historian Server

Server license based on tags
Separate catalog numbers for
Rockwell Software and third-party tags
Server licensing is cumulative
Interface Node(s) for FactoryTalk included with
Server license
Software can be deployed in architectures that
support high availability and redundancy
FactoryTalk Historian Client Tools
No licensing for FactoryTalk View SE Trends
No additional licensing for OLE-DB connectivity
FactoryTalk VantagePoint server license and
single client license included.

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Section 4: FactoryTalk Historian SE

Summary
FactoryTalk Historian SE can assist initiatives focusing on

Process optimization
Improving product quality
Centralized data collection and storage for compliance
Monitoring, optimizing, and reducing energy consumption

Does your organization have any

of these initiatives today without a
Historian to support the effort?
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