This is where the demo comes in,
because rather than us just telling you what are these tools, how do
they work, we're going to actually be showing you.
Thank you very much. Let's get started on this.
So Camille,
it's a fresh week. I've loved coming home.
The UC last week was amazing. It
was a good week. I really felt like I took a lot out of the
User's Conference. It was great being back in San
Francisco. And I just wanted to stop by
and touch base. I know we had a sort of angry
phone call on Monday. So I figured I'd walk on over to see how things
are going now. Thanks, I'm sorry about that. Everything
is totally smoothed over now. Have you
come over and seen what we are doing over here on the processing
side? It looks like you have PI ProcessBook open here.
Yeah, we have PI ProcessBook. This is just our process here
starting with ethanol and moving it
through until we get the different products that come out at the end.
And I have all my different pieces of equipment. I have a distillation
column, centrifuge, a dryer. And I just use this to
kind of keep up on what's going on in my process. But how did
you decide to lay out your process like this?
How did you make those choices? This looks a lot like our
SCADA screens that the operators are working with. I work with them a
lot so it makes a lot of sense for me to see what they are doing and what they
see. So I just made my ProcessBook screen
to look just like that. And all of
those displays, that trend that you have there and those values,
are these showing up all in real-time? Yeah,
so I can zoom in and at any moment I can see the data for any particular
piece of time. And it updates as new
values come in. They just pop in here right away. And I can
see that anytime the production rate, which
is the thing that I have my eye on all the time, just right
here from my overall view of the process. And
down here, I have
how the production went for each shift as they've been going on.
So you can see as it builds up and a new shift
starts and a new tracking starts again.
OK, so I see different values that are next to each of your pieces of equipment.
What are those values representing? So these up here?
This is just a high level view of what's going on in my process.
And I want to be able to kind of.. I mean I'm very familiar
with it, so these are just the water percentages of the streams at
different times. And I know when something is
off when those values aren't what I expect them to be. So from up here I can
tell if there is an issue anywhere in the
process. OK, so let me pretend to be you. I'm
looking here and let's say I see a problem with one of
these values, this doesn't really tell me a lot about the
piece of the equipment. So what can I do from
here? So let's say something was happening with the first centrifuge,
so you can click on that centrifuge
right there. And we'll get to see
more detail about that centrifuge itself.
So here on this PI ProcessBook screen, I
have a chart of the flow rates coming in and out. I have more
details about the in stream and the two out streams right there.
And so if I know there is an issue with that centrifuge,
I can go right in. What do you have going on
over here?
Oh yeah, so I
find it really handy to know the type of
centrifuge it was and when it was last maintained. But
there is no PI tag for that. So I was able to
reference the database that that's in
and pull it into the PI system and now it's here. So
you are taking that external database, you are referencing those with the PI System,
so you must be using the Asset Framework for that.
Yeah. So the Asset Framework is what brought this
together. So I have PI Tags, PI Streams
but I can also bring in database information
from ARP Systems or other ones as well. I can
bring in data from just about anywhere I want to.
OK, and as you are looking at this centrifuge,
I'm guessing you have more than one centrifuge
here. Yeah, two. OK, now I'm assuming you look at the same type of
information for different centrifuges. Yeah, so
you see over there on the left, that little one and two. Just click on number one.
OK, so I was looking at centrifuge two,
and now I'm on centrifuge one. Yeah, so I have this one
display and I just click on that link over there on the right and I get to see the
data from the
different centrifuge just swaps in. I don't want to look at
different displays and have them all look a little bit different.
That's just extra work that I don't want to do. So I just have one display
that looks the same and I just swap out the data and it works really well.
And then obviously with two centrifuges,
not as big of a deal, but if you had
15, 20 or 100s, this is going to be really key.
Yeah, so we have some areas where we have twenty or
so things on that list, I can just click through them. Really handy.
But you guys over
in the Power Group, you use PI ProcessBook as well?
Right. Well I look at PI
Displays a little bit differently. So in our on-site
power facility, one of the things that we are typically
using.. I can't be at my desk, I have
PI ProcessBook installed on
my computer, but I'm walking around a lot. So what I typically
use is PI Coresight. Would you like me to show you PI
Coresight? Yeah, do you have your laptop with
you? I don't need my laptop. Because PI
Coresight is web based. I'm going to basically open a
web browser on any machine. Let me show you.
I know they said a lot about that at the UC -- mobile, mobile, mobile.
So all that I need to
do is basically I'm going to enter my Windows credentials. And
because of the fact that we are going over the web
and there is a URL involved, we are going to need to be able to
protect our data. Right
because the system like public knowledge or
something, you need to be on the internal domain to get access to it?
Yeah. And what we see here.. So take a look, these are just
different displays in PI Coresight that are publicly
shared within our organization.
So which one should I click on?
So there are so many different types. Try this one.
So I was in a meeting earlier
and somebody wanted to know about these two temperatures.
And all I had to do was pull out my
cell phone and actually build a really quick PI Coresight
display ad hoc and find that out. But this is a
really simple display. It was built really easily.
Why don't you go back and let me show you something I think is even cooler.
OK, so look at that
power plant KPI dashboard. The black one?
Yeah. So you
were showing me PI ProcessBook. This is an
imported PI ProcessBook Display
that I'm looking at.
And you can scroll back in time the same way that you do with
PI ProcessBook. And this is really handy
because I can look at the data exactly the way I want it in PI Coresight.
So what do you
see going on here? I see a big flashing
red light all of a sudden. What exactly is graphed
in here? The graph,
if you look at the red, that's the combined power demand.
So that's coming from HVAC, that's coming from all the different chemical
production lines. If you take a look at the green, that's the
net power produced from our gas and steam turbines.
So I'm rolling that all up and
I'm being able to compare our supply and our demand in a single
trend there. And then it
looks like the demand exceeded
the supply for a little bit of time.
And that's Monday? Yes, so
this is why I was so angry on
Monday.. You have furry, what can I say.
What did you do Stuart? What did you do to me? So we tracked it down.
What happened was we were all setup to start-up a new
line but we hadn't put it in the calendar that we published to you guys.
And then we started it and we didn't let you know about that.
Sorry about that. So this is how you
knew that. I was wondering how you were on it
in like two minutes, it was crazy. So as you can
see, I get this big flashing
screen. I can see it right here on the display that we have a problem.
But I didn't actually have to look at this
display. I could be looking at this display on my phone,
but what I did is I have PI Notifications
setup. So if something goes into an
alert state, I'm basically getting an email notification on
my phone that this is a problem. Then I can go to this display
and then I see the red light and then I'm calling you.
OK, I'm in a room and there is a sound that goes off
and then about two minutes later, Camille is calling me. Is that the order of operations here?
Exactly. But I'm glad that we have a
plan now moving forward to avoid this type of thing.
Totally, won't happen again, 100%.
Good to hear. And I'm also really
excited because as you are making these forecasts
for what your demand is going to be on the power, I'm going to hold you to that.
Because as soon as future data comes up,
we are upgrading our PI Server and then I'm going to be
trending what you told me that you were going to
demand right along side what you actually demanded.
So I'm going to be able to tell. Is there a way for me to see that then?
I mean if you are going to be basing your
holding me to account on something, can I
see it through Coresight as well? Yeah, PI Coresight is something
that you can see too. So in fact, have you ever used PI Coresight
before? I've heard about it a couple of times at the UC.
But we haven't started using it at all.
It's really easy. Go to the home page,
and then go to New Display.
New Display, click. As long as you know your process,
it's going to be really fast for you to build the display.
So what do I need to do now? Create a display, select one or more items from the search list.
So we are over at OSIsoft
Chemicals. And what do you see
on the upper left here? I see on the on-site
Power Plant, that's you. And then I see..
that's me, so I'm guessing I need to click here. And
I see, there is some data about it.
Wow, look at that. So here is my piece of equipment
from my line, the two centrifuges, the distillation system, the
dryer, the evaporation, they are all there.
Right, and if you drill down from one of these pieces of your
equipment in your process, you get all the things
that you were measuring off of that piece of equipment.
OK, it's a centrifuge and there are all the flows and stuff. Wow!
And you just literally drag and drop it into the display.
Then trend, I want to trend.
OK, so
can I drag and drop other stuff onto it? Yeah, exactly.
Look at that, OK. And you don't have to stick
with a trend, you can also do things like tables or
gauges. I can do tables? Yeah.
Look at that, OK.
So you use this a lot?
Yes, I use this a lot. If you have to be
in a situation where you need to be able to access your
data from anywhere, PI Coresight, right there.
Got it, alright.
That's really good.
So this is all really good but let me
go back to the stuff. So this is my
plant. So
we are going to be starting.. We've connected up another one of
our lines and I'd love to see it in this. But I don't see it in here.
That's just the one line that I work with is up there.
Why isn't the rest of my data in there?
OK, so you are talking about the fact that you have just these
five pieces of equipment. If you look, there is just five pieces of equipment there but
we've just started up another
like 3x that or so. Why aren't they in this list?
So for them to appear in this list, you need to build them in the
Asset Framework. And you can do that with PI System
Explorer. Have you ever used PI System Explorer?
I've never used PI System Explorer.
OK, I think it's installed here on your machine.
I think Henry works mostly with that.
PI System Explorer. This is PI System
Explorer. Are there any
graphs? No I'm sorry Stuart. This is a building tool.
This is not a client tool. But what you
should take a look at, is see over here on the
left, this is where the tree came from.
Ahh, it's that tree again -- centrifuge 1,
centrifuge 2, distillation system. So if you want to be able to expose
your equipment like that in any of the
client tools, not just Coresight, it
gets built here. OK,
and if I was to say, OK
centrifuge 1 and we took a look at that.. If I go over
here, this is where we built all the things that
we see once we click on a particular
item in the tree. Oh, so the flows, the
pressures and the temperatures.
So that's all stored here. So what is this called
again? This is called PI System Explorer.
And it's a building tool for the Asset Framework.
So this is how we build the Asset Framework
that we've heard about over and over.
Exactly. And remember, you were showing when you were using PI ProcessBook that
you were able to bring in things from other
databases like your equipment database. You were able to do that
because the connection was built in here.
Got it. So that's what these are. These are like non PI Tag
data things. Exactly. And if you think about
it, there are more things that are going on in PI System
Explorer. When we were looking at that trend, what were we looking
at? What trend? The one that
we saw of mine in PI Coresight. The red and the green ones.
Oh yeah, it was like the power demand and the power
supply. But wait a second, you don't have a sensor for
that. Where did you get that from?
So it's not like we have a sensor. There has to be some type of
calculations. But I'm not doing those calculations
after getting the data out of the PI System.
You were getting it right away because you were able to call me right away.
Exactly. So the
calculations are setup in the PI
System. And specifically I setup these calculations
in PI System Explorer. And the great thing is
is I can setup a calculation once and I can
roll that out to all of my assets.
So this is where all of that comes from.
And I think you've heard of this,
Event Frames are also setup in PI System Explorer.
Yeah, we use Event Frames a lot actually.
It gets to look good now. So tell me, what do you use
Event Frames for? Remember I was telling you that I
am responsible for the line and one thing I want to do
is I want to be able to coach the
different shifts to be the best they can
be during their time.
So this is an Excel report and in it, I
can just bring in PI numbers into it.
And it's divided by which shift during the day was
on. So wait a second,
you are bringing in your PI System data into Excel, so you must be using
PI DataLink. Yes, so this is in PI DataLink and all I
need to do is just change a number up here
and I get a whole other set of data into my sheet. So now I'm
asking for 21 days but usually I'm just interested in the last week, so I just
do the last 7 days. And I can quickly
plop it
into my Excel sheet. The report is already kind of done. I
get to spend more time making graphs that look great.
And then I can compare which shift was performing well at
different times and then I can go back and look at what was happening
at that time in the process. And what was
good and what could be worked on. So this is your job
Stuart, you change one button in Excel and you produce this report?
Well it is now. How this was done
before is that I'd get towards the end of the week and
I'd be like, alright guys let's get the report together.
And I'd get like 20 or 21 reports from each shift. I'd get one
report from each shift. And then I would have to go
through and put all of those together onto one sheet and make sure it was
all perfect because I'm accountable for sending it off. Then I'd email it away.
And that would take hours and I'd have to make sure it
was perfect. And here instead all the data is already
there and I don't have to rely on clip boards or anything else.
And all I need to do is go click, click. And I get a
different set of data in my Excel sheet.
OK, and you are able to make this type of comparison between these
different shifts because you have Event Frames setup for
each shift? Yes. So
to really quickly show
it, so if we go.. You remember my process here?
I remember this. These are the
shifts as they go on. Like each shift's
production. Well what we did is we took Event
Frames and we were like, do you know what? That is a shift.
And you know what, that is a shift.
So the Event Frame was that piece,
it was that piece of the process. And then I can just
compare all of the pieces right on top of each other
really easily when I move over to an Excel sheet.
So now each one of these is one of those shifts.
Really clearly, right there. Sounds good.
I would actually like to see.. Maybe you can
send me this Excel spreadsheet. It looks pretty
simple but what I can envision is
that on the power side, I have a use for Event
Frames too because essentially the
exhaust
gas from the gas turbines is going to then
be used to make the steam for the steam turbines. And we've been having some problems with that.
So I need to be able to know if there is a
problem, when did it start? When did it end? What was the impact
further down on the steam turbine? So I'm going to build the same type of
report and I'm going to be using Event Frames as well.
I can email you this report and you can modify it however it would work for you.
That's really one of the great ways to learn about it,
here is what we are doing and you can see what it is and you can modify it to be whatever you want it to be.
Sounds great. Look at us, three
years after becoming aware of the fact that there was a
PI System.. I know, it was three years ago and we were at our first UC. That
was amazing. Do you remember that class we took?
Yeah I think it was something like PI 101. Yeah, it set us off on such a
great trajectory.
Thank you.
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