Software Datasheet

Summary

Wonderware Historian 10.0

Wonderware Historian
is the first, large-volume
plant data historian
to unite a high-speed
data acquisition and
storage system with a
traditional relational
database management
system, facilitating easy
access to plant data
using open database
standards.

Business Value
Complete and accurate
plant data recording
enables personnel to
find plant performance
improvement
opportunities.
Wonderware
Historian provides the
configuration options
you need regardless
of the size of your
systems. Whether for
a single node, a multitiered configuration or
a complete disaster
recovery solution,
Wonderware Historian
meets your needs.

A High-Performance Historian Database

Wonderware Historian provides flexibility, configurable scalability, and high

reliability. Design simple single node Historical systems, multi-tiered systems
aggregating summary data in tier one Historians to tier two Historians, or even
design multi-tiered redundant systems for disaster recovery capable of continuous
data collection and no loss of data even when a server or entire facility is lost.
Combining advanced data storage and compression techniques with an industrystandard query interface to ensure open and easy access to stored time-series
information, enabling process and performance decisions to be evaluated and
made by the right people, in real-time.
Wonderware Historian Clients, a comprehensive set of companion tools, and the
Wonderware Information Server portal,provides your entire organization with a
variety of data management tools for analysis and optimization of operational
parameters.

Optimize Data Storage in SCADA and

Geographically Dispersed Architectures

With the ability to configure multi-level tiered Historian architectures, Wonderware

Historian delivers the flexibility needed in modern networked infrastructures, with
the ease of use expected from Wonderware.
Wonderware Historian provides flexibility, configurable scalability, and high
reliability. Design simple single node Historical systems, multi-tiered systems
aggregating summary data in tier one Historians to tier two Historians, or even
design multi-tiered redundant systems for disaster recovery capable of continuous
data collection and no loss of data even when a server or entire facility is lost.

Improve Productivity with

highly-targeted Plant
Information

Wonderware Historian software offers several advanced

data retrieval modes that help target critical plant
information needed to identify and solve costly plant
inefficiencies. Plant personnel can quickly retrieve
key information and immediately apply corrective
actions to improve plant productivity. Advanced data
retrieval modes help to reduce the time needed to
create database queries conserving valuable plant IT
resources.

Ask Real QuestionsGet Real Answers

Wonderware Historian provides vital real-time and historical information that personnel need to
streamline operations, gain visibility to trends, and reduce unnecessary production costs. Data from
Wonderware Historian serves the needs of operations, engineering, quality, maintenance and other
functional groups. Use queries and tools designed to optimize the retrieval of time-series information
from your database to answer the questions most relevant to your process.
Examples of how data from Wonderware Historian can assist plant personnel in their process
improvement efforts include:
Production Managers using Wonderware Historian can
answer questions such as:
What are the daily production totals?
What were the major outages this month?
Are the plants emissions within regulatory limits?
Plant Operators can reply to queries to answer:
Why wont this pump start?
Is the furnace temperature slowly increasing?
How was this start-up different from last years?
Control Engineers can use Wonderware Historian to
answer questions such as:
Are the set points optimal for this control loop?
Did the protection interlock cause a spurious plant trip?
Did the alarm provide sufficient warning to the operator?
Process Engineers can make the following determinations:
Has this vessel been subjected to metal stress?
Is this machine a production bottleneck?
What caused this pump to fail?
Is my raw material supply being starved?
Quality Assurance and Maintenance personnel can reply to a variety of inquiries including:
Did the recipe change affect the products quality and yield?
How does this compare to our Golden batch?
Have the bearing temperatures and vibration increased since the last overhaul?
How many hours has the heat exchanger been out of service this year?

HIGH-PERFORMANCE FEATURES
Store Plant Data with Amazing Speed
& Remarkable Efficiency
Wonderware Historian software captures
plant data hundreds of times faster
than a standard database system and
saves data in a fraction of the space.
Because of the differences between time
series information and conventional
transactional record-based data typical
of a commercial enterprise, conventional
relational database technology is not
suited to the plant-floor environment.
The innovative Wonderware Historian is
designed to manage the continuum of
values experienced in time-series data,
which is inherently different from the
isolated sample style information in a
typical database. Wonderware Historian
combines front-end, high-speed data
collection with time series extensions
to an embedded Microsoft SQL Server
relational database to optimize both
storage and retrieval performance.
Wonderware Historian System Architecture
Wonderware Historian does not store data
directly in Microsoft SQL Server Tables, but
instead utilizes a highly optimized file system separate from the relational database. Additionally, the
swinging door data storage algorithm greatly reduces data storage requirements while preserving
important data features. It also fully integrates event, summary and production data along with
database configuration information.
Capture Complete Data Records, Even from Slow or Intermittent Networks
Wonderware Historian captures complete data records with its fault-tolerant data acquisition system,
which is appropriate for SCADA and other applications that use slow or intermittent data networks.
Wonderware Historian can acquire and store data collected by remote terminal units (RTUs),
providing more complete data records for SCADA operations.
Build Queries Faster & More Efficiently with New Advanced Data Retrieval Modes
Now offering more efficient and flexible queries than ever before, the open, high-speed Wonderware
Historian offers the following advanced data retrieval modes:
Time-in-state
Best fit
Time-weighted average
Integral

Slope
Counter
Cyclic and delta
Full

Interpolated
Minimum, maximum, average
Valve state
Round trip

Configure Versatile Multi-Tiered Architectures for Data Redundancy

With Wonderware Historian it is simple to create distributed, multi-level configurations. A Tier 2
system can serve as a data repository for backup of critical information, or multiple Tier 2 systems can
enable replication of all of your historical data. Multiple Tier 1 systems can feed either their complete
data stream or just summary aggregated data to one or more Tier 2 systems. Tiered architectures
guard against possible data loss due to system failures or network downtime incidents.

Wonderware Historian delivers high availability through a comprehensive system approach.

HIGHLIGHTS

Advanced data storage compression minimizes data storage requirements

Distributed and Tiered architectures for more reliable data acquisition, optimized storage
and lower administration costs
Integrated with Wonderware Information Server for seamless Web content management
and delivery
Powerful performance management tools for KPIs, process graphics, trending, reporting,
downtime analysis, production and SPC
Built-in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for easy report creation and management
Open SQL Data Access with embedded Microsoft SQL Server Database for production database
extensions and greater information context
Generates highly focused data queries using powerful data retrieval modes
Designed to support slow and/or intermittent data networks
Integrated with Wonderware System Platform and InFusion ECS for one-click historian configuration
Ready to use out of the box
High availability features protect critical applications
FDA 21CFR Part 11-ready for regulated industries
Industry standard operating system and database support

CUSTOMER SUPPORT & SERVICES

The Invensys Customer First Services Program makes it easy to receive up-to-date Wonderware
software and associated applications. To learn more about this valuable program, which maintains
and often increases the value of your industrial software applications, please contact your local
Wonderware sales representative.

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