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Over 20 years of experience installing and supporting all elements of the OSIsoft PI System ecosystem from small plant system to global deployments.
Data Architecture
Breach your data silos and integrate your systems. You need an experienced Data Architect to ensure that you are taking advantage of all that is possible.
Application Development
OSIsoft's open architecture allows you to programmatically access your carefully crafted information. Sometimes you need a customized solution to exchange data with a legacy system or a specific visualization or UI to take full advantage of this information.
Any of these sound ?
"I've got lots of data, but not enough usable information"
"We use PI all the time to figure out why things failed, but we never seem
to get to the point of discovering the problems before they happen"
"I know that there is much more that we could be doing with PI, but I don't really know where to start."
"We have a new project coming up. We will be installing a lot of new equipemnt, but we aren't sure how we are going to get the data into PI."
Blog Posts
Condition-Based Maintenance using the OSIsoft PI System
Gopal GopalKrishnan gave an excellent presentation about Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) at the OSISoft Users Conference this year. For many years, Gopal has been the go to guy at OSIsoft when it comes to this subject. What we are seeing now is the result of his, and others, efforts over the years working with OSIsoft customers…
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End of Support for Windows Server 2003 Coming This Year – Plan now to upgrade your OSIsoft PI System Computers
Microsoft will end support of Windows Server 2003 on July 14th, 2015. Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes and updates for the OS after this date. It is imperative that you develop a plan to upgrade any PI servers or interface computers that you have running this OS. Upgrading your PI Server is usually…
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Targeted OSIsoft PI System Training
I think that we have all had the experience before where you sit in a training class, some of the information in the class is relevant to what you do, and some is not. At times, you sit there with your eyes glazed over bored to tears. You feel good finishing the class, but as…
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Successful upgrade of PI Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2
[update 10/8/14 – There is an OSIsoft alert (OSIsoft site login required) that PI Server 2012 is only supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 if Microsoft patch 2963918 is installed on the server. This fixes an issue with the VSS backups. I successfully upgraded the secondary server of my PI development collective to Windows Server 2012 R2. The…
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Time to make sure that you have plans to upgrade any old PI interface computers from XP
The new PI Interface Configuration Utility (ICU) was just released and posted to the download area on vCampus. It posted with a Windows XP End of Life notice. It would be interesting to know the percentage of PI interface computers out there still running on XP. I’m sure that it would not be an insignificant…
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Windows XP End of Life is quickly approaching
Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th of this year. It is funny that I was just reminded of this impending deadline by a OSIsoft Technical Support Bulletin that I received in my email while I am working with a client to replace an old Windows 2000 box running a PI interface. There are…
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New vCampus Beta Goodies! AF 2014 with Abacus analytics and DataLink 2014 with Event Frames
I just received the email from vCampus with a bunch of new goodies! The most exciting is the beta release of AF 2014 with the Abacus data analytics built in. Think Performance Equations for AF, only much much better. We got to play with an early alpha at vCampus 2012 and everyone has been eagerly…
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PI in the Sky on a new Azure VM
At the UC this year, the OSIsoft folks gave a presentation about PI in the Sky or PI in the cloud (UC video here). Microsoft just publicly released some of the new capabilities discussed at the UC to Windows Azure and I wanted to give it a try. I decided to see how easy it…
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10 years worth of PI in a day. Never stepped foot on site.
I just finished migrating an ancient version of PI running on a Windows 2000 server to the 64bit version of PI 2012 running on new hardware and Windows 2008 R2. The plant users had to do without real-time PI readings for maybe a total of half an hour while we upgraded the old server to…
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