PI ProcessBook

Features
Investigate Critical Events: PI ProcessBook integrates with PI Notifications so users can easily review current (or past) alerts. Using the built-in Notifications and Contacts windows, you can select an alert and all open PI ProcessBook displays will automatically be set to the time range for that notification. You can also see other associated displays and see who else is subscribed to the alert. To make it easier to investigate and resolve events, PI ProcessBook leverages Microsoft Lync so you can IM co-workers from within your PI ProcessBook displays.

Business Challenge
Todays businesses produce a multitude of data that describe in detail almost any aspect of process performance. However, this wealth of information by itself is not necessarily meaningful and actionable. To fully understand and act on data, workers need to view information that is easy to understand, clear, permits comparison and analysis and helps them rapidly respond to events as they occur. Businesses also need visualization options that can be reused, shared throughout the enterprise and be easily modified as operations and data needs evolve.

Overview
PI ProcessBook helps users instantly access and visualize real-time and historical PI System data through interactive, graphical, displays. Designed for PC-based users, PI ProcessBook supports both high-level analysis and data deep dives. Displays can be simultaneously populated with live data and with years of historical data. Data is presented however you want to see it be that in trends, bars, dynamic symbols, numeric values, etc. Displays can be easily modified as and when needed using menus, toolbars and clicks without the need for IT assistance or specialized consultants. Once created, displays can be shared and leveraged throughout the enterprise, maximizing collaboration and information sharing across time zones and languages.

Depth of Information: PI ProcessBook adds richness to your data analysis with its navigation, visualization and metadata features. For example you can: drill-down through data; turn layers of detail on and off; add annotations to record your comments, reason codes, etc.; visually distinguish data thats been flagged as questionable or substituted; and more. Customize: Displays can be customized and enhanced using simple scripts and controls so you can automate displays, add buttons or gauges, apply standard formatting and more.

Benefits
Share Displays Globally: PI ProcessBook is time zone agnostic. When displays are shared with users across time zones (with different number and time settings), PI ProcessBook automatically reformats the data so it displays correctly. This means your workers in Germany can collaborate (using the same displays) with workers in Russia and the U.S.A. and each of them see dates, times and numbers in their local formats and time zones.

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Share Information: PI ProcessBook displays can be pasted into a variety of third party applications, for example Microsoft Outlook, so you can easily share static data views with non-PI ProcessBook users.

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High-quality Graphics. With PI ProcessBook, any user can create powerful, professional looking, displays for visualizing PI System data. With scrolling trends, live video, SQC charts, XY charts, batch analysis, data values, trends, graphics and more displays can be as simple or as detailed as you wish. Comprehensive drawing tools and a built-in symbol library with over 3,000 images make creating displays easy. With PI ProcessBook you see data the way you want to see it and you can instantly modify displays as your business evolves.

Web Based Visualization: Share your PI ProcessBook displays with internet users through PI ActiveView or with Microsoft SharePoint portal users through PI WebParts.

Multi-lingual Support. PI ProcessBook supports Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish so toolbars, menus, etc. are available in many languages. With a simple click users can change their language settings so workers, fluent in different languages, can work together on the same machine. Information in Context: PI ProcessBook integrates with PI Asset Framework (PI AF), leveraging your asset model to simplify display creation and navigation. You can create a single display for common assets, equipment, sites, divisions, etc. in your business and use it to dynamically analyze all like assets throughout your enterprise. In these asset relative displays, data instantly updates as you click items in the integrated PI AF asset list. In moments you can review all turbines in a wind farm, substations on the grid, tanks in your refineries, etc.; comparing both current data and historical values across your business.
About OSIsoft, LLC OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events. With installations in 110 countries spanning the globe, the PI System is used in manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences, data centers, facilities and the process industries. This global installed base relies upon the PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational, manufacturing and business data. The PI System enables users to manage assets, mitigate risks, comply with regulations, improve processes, drive innovation, make business decisions in real-time and to identify competitive business and market opportunities. Founded in 1980, OSIsoft is headquartered in San Leandro, California, with operations worldwide and is privately held.

Advanced Integration: Links to web pages, Microsoft Word Documents, Microsoft Excel files (or other command-line accessible applications) can be added to PI ProcessBook displays/workbooks so users can instantly access corporate best practices, how to videos, etc. while analyzing PI System data.

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