Mtell Summit comprises a suite of foundation

Mtell applications including Mtell Reservoir,

Mtell CloudSync, Mtell Previse, and Mtell View.
Summit allows open access to third party
applications, including its open repository,
to combine time synchronized data from
any source. While Mtell tools provide analysis
and learning, open APIs allow delivery of
any raw data and computational results into
diverse client applications for display, reporting,
or extended analysis.

Mtell Summit is the premier remote monitoring center application for gathering and combining
time-series and descriptive, relationship data for complete analysis and benchmarking.

Mtell Previse the state-of-the-art toolset

Mtell Reservoir a high performance repos-

for machine learning-based analysis of

itory for time-series data, maintenance and

related time-indexed data for preparing

operational events, and other relationship data.

Mtells pattern recognition monitoring

agents. Also supports general purpose
learning of complex behavioral data
patterns for many optimization and decision-making initiatives in any organization.

Mtell CloudSync and other third party

data ingestion tools provide controlled,
easy connectivity and input from
disparate sources.

Mtell View Mtell View fuels situational

awareness for personnel remotely over-

Third Party Extensions through open APIs

seeing equipment at diverse locations.

Mtell Summit permits other applications to

Early alerts combined with aggregation and

enter data into the repository. APIs also al-

correlation effectively steer investigations

low the extraction and processing of data in

and root cause analysis by equipment type,

contemporary client applications such as R,

usage, and across sites.

Mathematica, Matlab, Apache Spark, etc.

Tossing the old historian over the IT fence and running it

on a bigger computer or cluster will not meet the requirements
of the users and applications at the enterprise.
Instead, a new design, Mtell Summit fully meets the demands.

Scalability Plus Performance

Mtell Summit enables BIG data scalable to thousands
of sites, millions of assets, with billions of sensors, and trillions
of sensor readings. Multiple hardware nodes assure
outstanding disk input/output and CPU processing
capability. Federated views of equipment across multiple
sites deliver enhanced asset health monitoring, and facilitate
remote maintenance workprocess across many locations.
The diagnostic capability, accuracy, and the range of
condition monitoring using simultaneous machine learning
across many machines at many locations are all increased
using Mtell Summit. Extensive analysis and data delivery into
other applications extends the use cases for Mtell Summit.
Storage for all sensor time-series data
Federated views across multiple manufacturing sites
Local and remote data center synchronization
Power to process large datasets
Foundation for predictive analytics: Mtell Analytics plus third
party reporting and analysis tools including R,
Mathematica, Matlab, Apache Spark, etc.
Scalability to multi-CPU clusters for:
- Increased data processing requirements
- Faster disk I/O operations

Mtell Previse
The plant floor model of Mtell Previse is extended into

a new level of accuracy of pattern recognition, with only

Mtell Summit for extra duties on much larger (federated)

limited labeled data requirements. Such Agents are readily

data sets from multiple sites. Summit also supports

shared across the set members even if they are located at

additional analysis techniques for other optimization

different sites and with different customers.

and decision-making services that can extend across

diverse manufacturing processes equipment at
many locations.

Starting from day one, newly installed equipment

of the same type, sensors, and usage can be
equipped with Agents for monitoring normal

Transfer Learning is a key capability,

and failure behavior that were prepared from

where Mtell Summit learns on one

older working equipment.

machine and transfers that learning

in the form of pattern signatures to

By gathering all that time-series data into

monitoring Agents on similar machines

a great big storage, many other things are

at other locations.

possible and desirable. A BIG data reservoir

serves as the storage and source of all

Mtell Summit unlocks a further advance in

retaining and sharing knowledge across fleets
or pools of equipment. Mtell calls this process

related data that is connected by timestamps. Additional data such as notes, work
orders, photographs, videos, etc., can be inserted into

Population-based Learning where Mtell Summit

the archives to be readily accessible whenever a user calls

combines group analysis and learning of behavioral

up a relevant historical trend. The Mtell Reservoir BIG Data

patterns from similar processes and equipment, regard-

sets allow analysts to perform ad hoc discovery, organi-

less of where they are located. Summit aggregates all the

zation, and enrichment to prepare data for other analytical

sensor information for groupings of similar equipment to

tools, reports, and dashboards.

massive sets in Mtell Reservoir. Internally deep learning

extracts the patterns of operations and failures, learning

Remotely connecting operations and maintenance

the shared behavioral characteristics of the entire set at

systems facilitates the highest performing assets at

the same time. Mtell Agents produced this way provide

the lowest risk, and best financial performance.

Mtell View bundled visualization application

Mtell View delivers contextually developed data about the performance and failure characteristics of assets and
process equipment. At the enterprise level, Mtell View provides an intuitive navigation scheme that quickly
alerts users, guiding them rapidly and effectively to important and prioritized information. Federated
views allow subject matter experts (SMEs) in a remote monitoring center to oversee equipment
at diverse locations simultaneously. All information about any assets including condition-based
alerts, maintenance work orders, and Agent properties, is aggregated and correlated in views
highlighting situational awareness. Heat maps give extremely visual ways to show concentrations
of specific degradation and failure in many dimensions. Analysts can quickly perform investigations and root cause analysis by location, across sites, across asset groups/fleets, by failure mode,
equipment type, customer, usage. Consequently, the failure profiles and associated risk are immediately
evident. Such clarifying views are essential to owner-operators, remote service providers, and original
equipment manufacturers who wish to monitor and manage distributed assets from a central location.

Mtell Reservoir is the full function enterprise storage for all time synchronized data.

Mtell Reservoir
At the enterprise datacenter, a new caliber of repository
for historical data retention and delivery must meet the
needs of more users, diverse applications, and emerging
BIG data applications. Mtell Reservoir replaces and
extends contemporary time-series historians to leverage
enormous advances in computer hardware and software.
For example, Mtell Reservoir recorded total data ingestion

CloudSync

rates at 100 million points per second on a modest

4 node Hadoop cluster and scales almost linearly with
additional hardware.

sophisticated transfer

Sites

including fleets
of equipment

Mtell Reservoir
large volume data
complex processing

Mtell Reservoir leverages the Hadoop and OpenTSDB

improvements over traditional plant historians, especially

(time-series database) software technology. The Apache

for retrieval and display of very large data sets. Additionally,

Hadoop software library allows for load-sharing by

Mtell Reservoir facilitates specific maintenance process

distributing the processing of large data sets across

library functions, general purpose archiving, and

clusters of computers. Hadoop scales from a single server

information comparison functions, including report

to thousands, each offering local computation and input/

generation and third-party analysis.

output storage. Additionally, the OpenTSBD is a data

management framework designed specifically for handling
time-synchronized and indexed data. Implementing the
Mtell Reservoir on Hadoop with OpenTSBD provides large

Mtell CloudSync
Mtell CloudSync provides extremely high data
ingestion rates. CloudSync connectivity streams
data from plant historians, but also accepts
specific batch uploads of comma-sep-

Transmitted streams include sensor data values, alerts,

events, and maintenance activities. Automatic,
lossless data compression means more
efficient data transfers, and dynamic

arated value (CSV) files and custom

throttling keeps transfer within configured

developed data input services.

bandwidth limits. Signal prioritization

assures the most pertinent data are

Its elegant and sophisticated bi-directional architecture ensures CloudSync

performs stream-based processing across
challenging and bandwidth limited network
connections such as satellite links.

received first, and the system will

recover older data as bandwidth becomes
available. CloudSync also delivers machine
learning signatures from Mtell Summit into
monitoring Agents at remote sites.

Focus on the future, not the past. A powerhouse tool set assures
Mtell Summit predicts what can happen and advises the action to avoid it.

Asset Health Monitoring

Mtell Summit provides comprehensive asset health
monitoring and analysis for myriad machines at
multiple locations.
Facilitating the 3 Ps of Maintenance Analytics
1. Performance where information is readily available
in views, charts, and trends to examine current and
past asset performance.
2. Predictive where the solution can detect and warn
of impending equipment failures well before serious
damage occurs, including root cause analysis and
process defect profiling.
3. Prescriptive offering key advice on mitigation,
ordering inspection or repair, along with advice
on avoiding impending issues.

Remote & Predictive

Asset Health Monitoring
Comprehensive remote maintenance monitoring has been elusive;
promised by many but never really delivered. Most solutions
provide simple graphics indicating present and past asset
behavior, and require remote personnel to manually search
in an attempt to discern problems. With such limited functionality, remote centers offer little more than post incident phone
support. Mtell Summit changes all that with real, accurate
predictive failure warnings generated at the manufacturing
location, and/or at the Data Reservoir. Mtell provides precise,
early warnings of impending issues, alerting WHEN and WHY
a failure would happen, and well before damage occurs.
Armed with accurate predictions, subject matter experts (SMEs)
at a remote operating center can oversee equipment located at
many sites. SMEs are forewarned, can investigate and take
immediate action to alleviate the issue. Resulting recommendations
to adjust production or arrange minor servicing could avoid the
problem altogether, or defer maintenance to a convenient time.
The remote asset health worker can use the Mtell Reservoir for
many horizontal analytical tasks that improve both manufacturing
process and equipment efficiency, including:

Reporting and Analysis

Signature Analysis

Investigation of trends

Investigation comparison of signatures across time

Profiling failure signatures across pools of

and across similar equipment

similar equipment

Anomaly detection and conversion of anomaly failures

Root cause analysis

into more precise signatures that detect far earlier than

Sub-component analysis
Process analysis that permits review of multiple sensor
data streams across time
Equipment benchmarking; enabled by managing
nameplate and brand information across equipment
to compare variances in performance affected by
location, usage, etc.
Batch/discrete process analysis, including comparing
behavioral patterns across multiple batches

anomalies
Event signatures including investigation of hidden failures
Failure signatures the most precise and earliest way
to detect degradation
Efficiency signatures the inverse of degradation,
inquiring why some equipment operates more efficiently
Process defect signatures similar to failure detection
on equipment, where the focus is on discrete events
such as a batch processing where variations can occur
across batch runs

A Time-synchronized
Data Repository for any Use
The content of the Mtell Reservoir is not limited to cross-site federated
views and machine learning for asset health management. Time-series
sensor data are lightly governed before ingestion; a cleansing
procedure assures all data points are valid and within range before
ingestion and machine learning. Consequently, the rich content
is available for many business users to explore, combine with
other data, build reports. Data can be extracted and processed
by alternative client applications, or structured data warehouses, to
answer questions that have not been possible or practical in the past.

An Information Library
The Mtell Reservoir is more than an elevated plant historian with a bump in CPU speed. First it is the scalable high performance industrial big data reservoir for time-series sensor data streams and event records. Second, it is a library containing a
whole host of information about assets and asset performance; mappings to equipment models, sensor templates for fleets
of similar equipment, and a failure library based on the ISO 14224 standard.
Reporting and Analysis

Industrial Library

Process performance

Industrial signal processing

Equipment performance

Feature extraction

Model types

Hierarchical sensor model

Site performance benchmarks

Virtual sensing

Equipment benchmarks

Sensor upset detection

Breakdown by location, operator, etc.

Shift change / Maintenance

Performance logs

Industrial Machine Learning Library

Universal plant model

Deep learning

Equipment taxonomy

Signature library
Sensor knowledge base

Nameplate parameters
Linked to sensors

Sensor ranking/importance
Mtell Summit has been implemented successfully across several industrial sites. Reliability engineers can use Mtell Summit
for maintenance workflow management, and can also generate and share unlimited machine learning agents at sites across
the globe. Mtell Summit is the essential solution that merges process and maintenance data from multiple locations and
presents them in rich, intuitive graphical displays in web browsers, tablets, and smartphones.

Cutting Edge Features

CloudSync Remote Site Connect

Multi-Site Tag Namespace

Analysis & Reporting

On-ramp to big data, sends

data from remote facilities

For unique names from

multiple remote plant historians

Drag-and-drop report
generation

Configurable bandwidth
throttling

Equipment types, associations,

and sensor groups

Key filtering and management

for all reports based on
equipment hierarchy (site,
equipment, sensors) and
sensor templates (models,
sub-assemblies)

State-of-the-art compression
and security
Supports live streams and
batch-oriented backfill
Resilient synchronization
with store-and-forward and
system restarts

Big Data Scalability

Correlates sensor streams

with maintenance work orders,
operator actions, and production activities/events

Leverages Hadoop and

multiple editions including
MapR, Cloudera, and
Hortonworks

Mashup trends overlay events

on sensor signals

Scalability add nodes for

extra CPU and I/O capacity
Equipment Model
Extensible equipment model
library & taxonomy
Failure Code Library based
on ISO 14224

OpenTSDB for flexible

management of time
series data

Industrial Strength Processing

Detects issues in sensor
reliability & calibration issues

World Class Performance

Automated import of equipment hierarchy and taxonomy

from EAM/CMMS systems

Low-latency response times

for analytical applications

Mapping of sensor values

into equipment templates

Mixed workloads: quick trends

to machine learning

Intelligent interpolation using

uni/multi-variate techniques
Incorporates virtual sensors,
rules, and calculations

Mtell Summit provides high performance, industrial strength,

predictive analytics for enterprise-wide decision making.

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