Citect Plant2Business Historian
Increase your return on assets (ROA), by
enabling production and business personnel
to access and interface with all plant
floor information including production,
control and maintenance data. Citect
Plant2Business Historian’s critical analysis
and reporting capabilities will lead to
better-informed decisions and, ultimately,
increased productivity.
Production and business managers can
maintain a long-term archive of plant
performance enabling them to effectively
analyze production trends for sustained
business improvement
Quality assurance personnel can maintain a
reliable log of all historical data and easily
analyze quality implications and automate
record keeping and reports
Regulatory engineers can store
emissions reports and facility data
indefinitely, ensuring that they
conform to Environmental Protection
Agency regulations
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A C Q U I R I N G H I S T O R I C A L D ATA MICROSOFT®
The Citect Plant2Business Historian module .NET POWERS
PLANT2BUSINESS
connects to HMI/SCADA systems and provides
a high performance, high integrity storage Citect has been an innovator
repository for large volumes of plant floor in the software development
data. With time stamp resolution of 100 world for over twenty years,
nano-seconds and sub-second data acquisition delivering the world’s most
rates from most SCADA systems, the quality reliable HMI/SCADA system over
and accuracy of stored information has never ten years ago. That innovation
been higher. and commitment to ongoing
technology development resulted
The Historian module will backfill from SCADA
in Citect using the Microsoft
trends to acquire data that it could not acquire
.NET framework as the basis
in real-time. For example, it can acquire data
for the Plant2Business Historian
if the network between the Historian and
module, delivering innovative
the SCADA system fails. The combination of
and empowering technologies
redundant failover connectors and backfilling
into the product.
ensures that data acquisition and continuity
problems are virtually eliminated. Citect Plant2Business V3.0 is
the first Historian to leverage
Quality flags are stored using the OPC status
Microsoft’s new framework,
and sub-status definitions in conjunction
delivering a clear statement
with customized high-byte sub-statuses to
regarding the company’s close
accurately reflect the status of the SCADA
relationship with Microsoft
system data at any time. Samples are recorded
and continued commitment to
for any change in tag status including values
Microsoft’s development path
and quality, as well as for configuration
and strategies.
status changes such as deadband values or
disabling logging.
Data stored in the historian repository is
accessible by all three Plant2Business clients
for analysis purposes. Plant2Business clients
include Plant2NET web browser clients, the
Excel client and the Crystal Reports client, as
well as via the API programming interface.
Plant2NET display of Historian data.
 Plant2Business Historian provides a
low-cost, customizable solution
HISTORIAN BENEFITS SIMPLE TO SECURITY
PERFORMANCE
Configuration is easier than ever; you will CONFIGURE MS SQL security model
S TAT I S T I C S
Drag-and-drop Client re-validation on
Sustained writes: be up and running in minutes using our configuration every data query
simple drag-and-drop configuration tools “Fill in the form” Password encryption for
10,000 per second configuration of specific internet security
Burst writes: 50,000 Achieve virtually zero data loss, even properties Multiple areas and levels
Express Wizards for PLC for each user
1 year of data in 3GB in total network failures, thanks to communications MS RDS for data
for a typical 10,000 tag automatic backfilling Long name support for transfers
attributes and folders Permissions can be
system based on a 0.5% Redundant connectors mean virtually User definable folder defined to the tag level
average deadband zero data loss, even with SCADA or structures and tree Permissions differentiate:
hierarchy – Folder and attribute
hardware failures Alias support for plain visibility
H A R D WA R E text names of plant – Attribute display
REQUIREMENTS floor data tags – Attribute write-back
H I S T O R I A N F E AT U R E S
Minimum – Attribute parameter
A single platform for Industrial Information V I S U A L I Z AT I O N changes
Pentium 500MHz CPU TOOLS – Security administration
Management, where information is
256 MB RAM Gantt charts Permissions apply
consolidated, aggregated and published Pareto charts to configuration
Recommended environment as well as
to a variety of value-added applications to Line charts
client environment
provide continual benefits to your business Data Lists
Dual Pentium 800MHz
Copy-and-paste DATA MIGRATION
1GB RAM Data can be acquired and stored exporting
Crystal reports interface Upload to relational
18GB RAID HDD simultaneously from: databases
Excel spreadsheet
Client export facilities
– CitectSCADA interface
S O F T WA R E Web browser interface Copy to clipboard
REQUIREMENTS – Intellution Fix32 facilities
D ATA S T O R A G E API interface
Pre-load Requirements – Intellution iFix
Integer C U S T O M I Z AT I O N
Windows 2000 SPk 2 – Wonderware InTouch
Long
Excel spreadsheet
No tag or size limits Float/real
MS SQL Server 2000 (optional) macros
Double
Crystal Reports full
System Components Redundant failover is typically less than All SCADA data is stored customizable and user
in engineering units definable reporting
Microsoft .NET Framework one second and range facilities (requires Crystal
OPC quality status and
Plant2Business Server Microsoft conventions, including setup Reports software)
sub-status Plant2NET environment
Plant2Business Historian Server wizards, drag-and-drop support and fully customizable in
HISTORIAN HTML to suit intranet
Plant2NET Server favorites, dramatically reduce a user’s
PA R A M E T E R S integration
Control Systems Supported learning curve SCADA primary and
secondary paths S U P P O RT
CitectHMI and CitectSCADA, Microsoft .NET framework brings the Phone/email
SCADA poll rate
Fix32, iFix and InTouch latest business system technologies to the Tag deadband support teams
Tag enable/disable Training packages
Databases Supported manufacturing environment
Tag bind to trend Knowledgebase articles
MS SQL Server 7 Support for multi-processor Service start/stop Website
Online storage limits Application support
MS SQL Server 2000 computers means unlimited scalability (optional)
Online storage path
Oracle 7 and performance Offline retrieval path Engineering support
(optional)
Oracle 8 Fully customizable reporting and client
interfaces for maximum business benefit

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