OSIsoft PI System Services
Over 25 Years of PI Experience Ensure Your Success
Initial Architecture and Planning
If you just purchased a PI System or you need to expand the one you have, get started on the right foot with a system designed by someone with 25 years of experience.
Installation and Upgrades
There are many factors that go into a successful deployment or major upgrade of a PI System. I can help with everything from specifying suitable hardware to discussing security options and best practices.
Rearchitecting and Upgrading
The business landscape changes constantly. Business units are bought and sold, operations are consolidated, and workforces change. If you find yourself with a heterogeneous environment in need of a redesign, choose someone with a proved track record and the necessary experience to properly architect and implement the project.
New Initiatives and Capabilities
The OSIsoft PI System has many newer capabilities. Whether you want to start using the asset-based approach, want to start adding analytics to your system, or need to integrate PI data into your other systems, you need someone who understands how it all fits together.
Enable Your No-Code Engineers
It is important to give your talented engineers the data tools that they need to fully leverage their knowledge. PI AF provides point-and-click tools to do just that, but most companies are not taking full advantage of this. Left to their own devices, engineers often default to using the tools that they already know like Excel. Unfortunately, this relegates them to manual data manipulation. Train your engineers to take full advantage of AF and put them on the path to developing automated solutions that continue to work in the background as they look for the next opportunity to improve your processes.
Data Architecture Development
The PI Asset Framework allows you to arrange and extend your data. If you are just getting started, it can be a bit overwhelming. It helps to have an experienced Data Architect on the team who is already familiar with the PI System and other typical applications used in industrial settings.
Recent Aveva OSIsoft PI System Posts
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…
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…
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…
Upgrading OSIsoft vCampus development environment to newly released Microsoft products
I’ve spent the last few evenings running Windows Server 2008 R2 upgrades to Windows Server 2012. So far, things have gone relatively smoothly. I’ve upgraded my SQL Server, AF Server, and SharePoint 2010 Server to the new OS with no issues. I have, of course, taken snapshots of each VM prior to making any changes…
Configuring your vCampus environment. Every PI Geek needs a Sandbox. (Part 1)
You need a sandbox To become good at building reliable solutions you have to be really good a breaking things. You must have a sandbox that allows you to play, experiment, and develop an intuitive sense of how things work. Over the years, I have literally spent thousands of hours in sandbox environments making a…