In the previous video, we created a
display for a single asset with detailed process information. In
this video I'll show you how to quickly create a dashboard for
multiple assets. Let's say I'm a manager and I want to put
together a monitoring display for all my pumps. Let's begin
by creating a new display. The
fastest way to create a dashboard for similar multiple
assets is to use what we call a collection.
With a collection, you can automatically gather data from across
many assets without having to find each one of them separately.
Just find your data once and let PI Vision repeat it
for you for the rest of the assets. The first thing I'll do is
find my data. I'm going to look
for my pump, hit enter.
Select the asset. Now I can see all of my attributes.
So I'm going to choose
the name and holding the control key I'll also choose the status.
I'm going to visualize them as a
value.
And I'll also want to visualize bearing temperature
as a radial gauge.
I'll format these by right
clicking and
under visibility I'll remove all the information I don't want
to see. Change the color.
Do the same for this.
Format the gauge.
I'll change the angle of the
scale. And change
the label to simplify it.
Now I'm going to resize
everything.
Then arrange it.
To create a collection,
I'll select all my symbols,
right click and choose convert to collection.
PI Vision instantly found all of my similar
assets and aggregated them based on the default collection
criteria. Let me format this collection to add a
border. I'll choose format
collection, create a white
border and increase the
weight. I'll resize it,
and then move it.
Now I'd like to add a shape to the collection. And to do that, I'll
have to modify it. I'll right click, choose modify
collection and now I'm only seeing a single
set of symbols for one asset. So I'll
choose the shape,
place my rectangle.
Send it
back. And change its
color by formatting it.
I'll remove the border.
And then
arrange my items.
Now I can exit modify mode to see the rest of my
assets. I'll add a title and
to do that, first I have to enter design
mode. Choose the text icon.
And I'm going to call it
Pump Stations.
Make it bigger.
We're going to add a
label for My Plant. Choose the text icon.
Place the label here and change its color.
Also I'll add an image.
I'll place the image right
here. Browse for
it. Select it and send it
back.
This looks great. In no time at
all, I created a dashboard for my single site.