It runs on regular office desktop thus not requiring the personnel to physically go to remote control rooms to download plant process data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There occasions where plant telemetry reading is not available on the PI system and I need to fall back to the closed-souced DCS/PLC database to check especially when the required data is vital for analysis or for failure investigations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
PI is a data collection software that allows analysis of an operating process to troubleshoot and optimize. I have used the software for over 25 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It could be more user friendly as well as come with more canned information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
PI is very easy to use and very scalable, especially with the new programs. OSIsoft is also very good for pushing for cybersecurity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
OSIsoft is in the middle of migrating almost all of their old programs to newer ones, so it is difficult to decide whether to use a PI program or wait for the replacement. Both the old and new programs are also very buggy. You will need to contact tech support a lot for this. I can't imagine what it is like to not have the Enterprise agreement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
PI captures data from different types of equipments, machines irrespective of the original equipment manufacturer and makes it available to broad user base on site or offsite as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The entire PI system environment is very huge, and offers multiple functionalities, making it a little bit confusing for a new user to select and choose from the bouquet of functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It allows us to connect many different databases and systems together to allow data from different projects to interconnect and give us results we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It can be tedious at times because it is difficult to map out how it all works but once you get the hang of it it's okay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I liked being able to pull in trends for the process I was running and be able to see what equipment was running just by looking at my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It would have been nice to know some of the special features that were available with the PI processbook system. Much of the special features I did not know until a separate training class had been performed years after working with the tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Excel adding is very good to extract data from the database and then analyze. Database is very strong and reliable. Easy to access from any of its apps and addings. It is fast with a good network. I take a lot of data from the database in a couple of minutes. Timing graphs are very good when showing data, it is easy to change scales and compares two or more tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
PI Processbook is not very friendly to build views, graphs could also be improved, it is not easy to modify graph properties, and types. To represent a tag in front of other only is possible with a few data, it is not valid for showing one year data.
Web should also be improved. There is not adding for google at the moment, so data can not be extracted from it. Access from web does not have the same futures as local tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to quickly and easily retrieve many data sources for analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The programming aspect of big data analysis functions can be cumbersome and difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.