PI System

TM

Edge-to-cloud data management

for industrial operations
Imagine what your company can achieve with
deeper operational insight, faster analysis of
critical data, and expanded visibility to remote
assets and IIoT sensors.
With trusted operations data delivered in real-time to people,
applications, and platforms across your organization, you can
unlock new business value and drive efficiency, flexibility,
sustainability, and resilience

The PI System’s integrated product portfolios

Edge-to-cloud data management for your distributed enterprise

PI Cloud
Scalable, integrated data
services for advanced analytics

PI Core
On-premises for 24/7
critical operations

PI Edge
Pervasive, real-time data
collection for remote environments

PI System helps you collect, store, interpret, and share real-time operations data from plant (PI Core) to edge
(PI Edge) to cloud (PI Cloud).

PI System is a data management system PI Core runs on-premises to provide real-time

built specifically to collect, store, and information for running and optimizing core
manage sensor and time-series operations operations. PI Edge expands data collection
data through three integrated product and data access to remote locations with
portfolios: PI Core, PI Edge, and PI Cloud. sensor-enabled devices. And PI Cloud uses
The seamless hybrid architecture lets the scalability and cost efficiency of cloud to
you gather critical data anywhere in your make data easily available to remote users,
operating environment and make it available advanced analytic tools, business partners,
to engineers, analysts, data scientists, and even customers. Together, the PI System
developers, and decision makers in any product portfolios ensure the integrity
location. and availability of data, at scale, across a
distributed enterprise.

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Proven in industrial environments
OSIsoft, now AVEVA, pioneered technology y Asset health and predictive
to optimize the capture, storage, tagging, maintenance
and indexing of massive volumes of y Quality monitoring
sensor and time-series data generated
y Process efficiency and improvements
at high frequency intervals. The company
has decades of experience implementing y Safety and regulatory compliance
solutions in essential industries such as y Digital transformation
oil and gas, energy, utilities, forest and
paper products, mining, metals, food and Many companies configure PI System for
beverages, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, high availability with end-to-end redundancy
and more. and immediate failover to support disaster
recovery, maintain emergency operations
Thousands of companies – and two-thirds
centers, and maximize uptime. You can
of the industrial Fortune 500 – rely on PI
deploy PI System components in a variety of
System for:
architectures, including in a DMZ, on virtual
y Energy, resource, and facilities machines, and in cloud environments.
management

PI System Benefits for operations

Three integrated product portfolios turn y Single system of record for consistent
operations data into valuable insight. decision making
y Add context and meaning to data
PI Core: Collect, store, enhance, and deliver
without programming
sensor and time-based data from critical
operations to people, platforms, and y Easy, self-service access and
applications on-premises. visualization of real-time data

PI Edge: Expand data collection to remote

Benefits for business
locations and sensor-enabled equipment
y Full security across all domains
outside your on-premises control system.
Expand data access to field technicians. y Data aggregation in distributed
environment
PI Cloud: Expand data storage and enable
broader data access using cloud-based y Rapid integration with analytic tools,
operations data management services. enterprise applications, and decision-
support systems

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PI System maintains a system of record for operational data
collected from many sources and used by engineers and
analysts across your organization

Collect data from every valuable source

The key to developing valuable and Remote assets and IIoT devices
accurate insight begins with capturing As a result of digitalization, many industrial
data from every relevant source. Operating companies now have hundreds, or even
environments contain a diverse set of assets, thousands, of sensor-enabled devices
from proprietary and industry-specific located beyond their core operating facilities.
systems and equipment that is no longer PI Edge products collect data from these
sold, to remote, mobile, and smart industrial assets to expand insight across a distributed
IoT devices. PI System lets you capture data operating environment. Some companies
automatically from any source, to ensure full even use data from equipment deployed at
integrity and liberate your employees from client sites as the foundation for new service
tedious manual collection. offerings. PI Edge products let you tap data
streams from:
Operating sites and plants
On-premises at operating sites and plants, y Smart IoT devices
PI Core products pull real-time data y Mobile assets with intermittent
from complex industrial systems such as connectivity
programmable logic controllers (PLCs), y Assets in rugged environments
distributed control systems (DCSs), SCADA,
y Assets deployed in environments
instrumentation, laboratory information
without technical support
management systems (LIMS), and others.
Legacy equipment is no problem. We’ve y Assets deployed at customer sites
developed over 450 native interfaces and
20+ smart connectors across vertical
segments that work out-of-the-box to
collect data and centralize it in a common
data archive.

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 Deliver data securely
and efficiently

Manage and enhance data to increase value

Once the data has been gathered, Additionally, PI Core products let your
PI System software helps you transform, team easily create reusable data
refine, calculate, and contextualize data, structures to aggregate and organize
making it easier to uncover operational data in meaningful ways. With this
and business insights. feature, you can view data by asset type,
location, process, or any other useful
Single source of truth category. Being able to see data in context
PI System maintains a system of record helps new employees identify anomalies
for operations data used by engineers and trends, just like more experienced
in different domains and by analysts at engineers.
the enterprise level. This architecture
eliminates data silos and gives everyone Analytics and event tracking
access to a single source of truth. With PI System products provide analytic tools
PI System, you can store millions of data you can use to track key performance
points and decades of history to support indicators. Compute simple averages
trending, benchmarking, and predictive and unit conversions, as well as more
analysis. New data is seamlessly sophisticated calculations like total
integrated as it arrives in real time, energy usage or the days of raw material
whether that is once every hour, minute, or remaining. You can also define key events
fraction of second. in your production process to trigger data
collection and compare data to similar
Metadata and data context events. If performance degrades and
Operations data arrives in massive action is needed, PI System lets you send
volumes, and it can be hard to interpret automatic email notifications in real-time
thousands or even millions of data to appropriate team members.
streams. PI System products let operators
and engineers define metadata to help
those using the data understand the
bigger picture.

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PI System is a cost-effective choice for companies deciding
whether to buy or build an operational data store to support
analysts and data scientists

Deliver data securely and efficiently

In operations, the more widely you share Plant managers can pull data into familiar
data, the more valuable it becomes. Excel spreadsheets to see data trends and
PI System products ensure the safe and fast create regulatory reports. Process engineers
delivery of high-quality operations data can view data in mobile-friendly dashboards
across your enterprise, to the people, analytic or process displays.
tools, and applications that turn data into
insight. Data scientists and analysts
Operations data can also be a gold mine
Operations engineers and management for business analysts, data scientists, and
PI Core is the heart of the PI System, leaders of digital transformation. PI System
running on-premises in critical operating includes products to shape and format
environments. PI Core empowers operators operations data for fast and secure transfer
and engineers with easy, self-service data to business and scientific platforms used for
access tools to drill down and view relevant deeper analysis.
data without using programming skills.

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Integration products provide out-of-the- Secure data sharing
box data delivery to popular enterprise Digital transformation is expanding interest
applications and platforms such as Apache in operations data beyond the enterprise to
Hadoop, Esri ArcGIS, Microsoft Power BI, a growing network of third-party service
SAP HANA, Seeq, TrendMiner, and more. providers and supply chain partners. PI
Cloud makes it easier to share operations
PI System is a cost-effective choice for
data by offering an operations database
companies deciding whether to buy or
management-as-a-service that provides
build an operational data store to support
programmatic access to aggregated data for
data scientists. PI System handles all
analysis and decision-making. For example,
the complexity associated with defining,
an oil and gas exploration venture can share
integrating, enhancing, and maintaining
drilling data among its partners. Because
operations data, and offers programmatic
the service is cloud-based, it easily and
access to data through standard REST APIs.
cost-efficiently scales to handle any volume
This means data scientists spend less time
of operations data. PI Cloud lets you share
on data hygiene and preparation, freeing
select operations data with authorized users
them to focus on analysis and next steps.
anywhere, anytime.

PI System’s edge to plant

PI System’s totocloud
edge plant architecture
to cloud architecture

Industrial
data sources
IIoT devices

Integrated data
archive and
self-service tools

Analysis platforms
and appliications

Operational
insight for
decision-making

PI System enables data collection, enhancement, and sharing throughout a distributed enterprise
and business ecosystem.

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Summary
PI System is an edge-to-cloud data The seamless integration of PI System
management system that provides trusted products across the operations core, edge,
operational data for data-driven decision- and in the cloud ensures data integrity and
making and digital transformation in a allows data to be shared securely outside
distributed enterprise. PI System supports the industrial control network. PI System
pervasive data collection from operating empowers employees across and beyond the
sites, assets, and sensor-enabled devices. organization with ready access to a rich set
It enhances data streams with useful of operations data to visualize trends, reveal
contextual information. And, PI System relationships, and support new business
delivers cleansed and formatted data to opportunities.
analysis tools, data science and AI/ML
platforms, and applications.

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 OSIsoft is now part of AVEVA

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