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Real-time Alarm

Processing 

The Alarm module was created on pure .NET managed code, with multi-threading and exception control, for maximum performance and reliability. Combining the Alarm, Dataset and Script Modules, you can log and bookmark process execution events, like downtime, startup, shutdown, batch control and continuous process analysis.

Storage and Replication

Alarm Historian data can be saved in any local or remote SQL database. When using redundancy, automatic synchronization of the database is provided. The replication guarantees the accuracy of the exact same data on both servers, even when they are using different providers.

OSIsoftTM PI EFTM Event Frames

The system also has a seamless, SDK level, connectivity with PI BatchTM and PI EFTM for data presentation, charts and custom data management.

Universal Time and Daylight Saving

FactoryStudio leverages (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time on all logging and online date time objects; so that Alarms, Events and Historical data are accurately time stamped for when they happened, no matter where you are located or any daylight saving settings. 

Audit Trail and Alarm Areas

One-click configuration to enable audit trail on Operator Actions, Database and Reports Events, User logon and logoff, System events and custom tags events. Data is archived in SQL tables with project defined encryption.

Alarm Visualization Component

No matter if you are on a PC, web browser, or iPad, a built-in graphical visualizer for alarms is provided.

Filtering, SQL queries, grouping, printing, saving, acknowledging and exporting are some of the built-in features included.

Notification Subscription

Project scripts, with access to the entire Microsoft .NET Framework, can subscribe to alarm events to implement custom actions, such as notification and calculation methods.

Store and Forward

When using remote databases, a store and forward option is provided, so a local cache is created, while the connection is not available and forwards the data when the database connection is reestablished.

Localization

Online messages and query results from the Alarm Historian database can be translated on the fly to local languages based on automated dictionaries. 

Reporting and Data Access

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Built-in Report Designer

FactoryStudio includes a user-friendly simple Report layout editor integrated with the engineering workspace. The rich text format uses underlying XAML flow document technology from WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation; that enables the inclusion of graphics and flexible formatting.

Runtime Display Snapshots

The runtime displays can be opened in background or saved to image files, allowing you to create rich graphic snapshot reports. Current displays and layouts also can be printed or saved as an image to disk.

Report Append and Text Data Logging

The report generator ability to append files, based on the project configuration and real- time tags, can be used to create CSV and text logging files for scenarios that require the information to be created as time goes by, such as batch reports and shift reports.

Dynamic Graphical Symbols

Any symbol from the real-time displays can be included in the Report. The dynamic behavior of the symbol, such as color, text output, and rotation, are all updated using the current tag values when generating the report. User controls, like Trend and Bar charts can be added as well.

Tables and Queries

The contents of database tables and queries can be added to the reports. The queries and report generation execute in isolated processes, not interfering with the real-time processing.

Data Access Toolkit