Omicron

Process Intelligence and Application Services

Process Intelligence provides real time analytics and reporting of key performance indicators and can alert users to events. It allows management and operators alike to peer deeply into a process and make intelligent decisions. Cross referencing process, ERP, MES, and other business systems, a Process Intelligence system finds the costly and the efficient components in a process. These systems differ from traditional BI in that real time process data is integral to the data analysis.

A manufacturing specific implementation of a Process Intelligence system that focuses on plant operations. For example, such a system can predict when conditions are ripe for a batch to fail, and an operator can then take proactive, preventative measures to save significant costs.

An energy specific implementation allows operations to visually track, based on daily rates and other factors, energy production in dollars and in pure output over time. It also allows for predictive analysis based on past performance.

The foundation of these systems is a data warehouse. Incorporating PI into a data warehouse is a challenging task, but one with high ROI. Using tools such as SSIS, StreamInsight, PI-to-PI, ACE, and custom development, real time data can be used for quality assurance and designing for reliability.

Expose and create data collaboration facilities that provide analytics, portals and reporting solutions to provide advanced insight into your operations.

Use Omicron’s 20 years of PI experience to effectively manage, maintain, and use your PI data and systems. We offer many services to help you evaluate and enhance the performance of your data historian and reporting systems. These include:

• Operations Centers
• Process Automation & Monitoring
• Process Modeling

The value seen from such a system is in its ability to easily call out and produce accurate and up to date planning information. Ease of access and broadcast reporting eliminate significant manual labor and cost. These custom systems can address a variety of features:

• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Scorecards
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Engineering Desktop
• Collaborative Manufacturing
• Workflow Integration
• Business Intelligence Integration
• Process Systems strategy, design, optimization, implementation, execution
• Process Automation
• Process Monitoring
• Process Performance Assessment
• Condition-based Maintenance
• Batch Release & Quality Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Environmental Reporting
• Cycle Time Analysis

As the developer of many of the general, horizontal products for OSIsoft’s PI System, one of the most valuable ways to partner with Omicron is in the area of Custom PI System & RtPM applications. Omicron uses our deep knowledge of the OSIsoft platform to deliver custom applications such as:

• KPI Dash Boards – Allows staff to review, at a glance, the key performance indicators of the real-time system
• Plan Vs Actual – Allows users to review how the business is perforating against plan.
• Operations Alerts – Allows users to be notified if values are out of specifications for reliability, operating goals or safety.
• Condition Based Maintenance – Allows data on equipment usage to help schedule maintenance activates not purely time based initiatives.
• Quality Reporting – Allows companies to establish tight control on quality release metrics and reduce product release timelines.
• Operating Envelopes – Allows companies to establish limits for process conditions that either creates an unsafe or unreliable environment. This can be as simple as having the potential to cause damage to equipment, affect the operability of the unit or system, or simply running equipment in non-optimal ways. This can also be used to provide event management for breaches. It is often used in conjunction with Operational Alerts.
• LIMS & Online Analyzer Analysis – Allows companies to access ALL laboratory results helping users pinpoint problems in the process quickly. Tabulated displays can show the lab results, specifications and sample dates and times. In addition, online analyzer readings can be collated to help understand when an online analyzer is out of specification.
• Environmental Reporting – Allows a company to take control and report on Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) activities. Our experience in this area can help companies reduce the CO2, CO, SOx, NOx, PM, HC – Smog (VOC/NOx) output of a plant or process. This can be done in a local or EPA Title V environment.
• External Data Integration – Allows a company to integrate valuable non-real-time data into the PI System. This may be key data provided by internal groups, manufacturers, partners, or customers. Once integrated into the PI environment, the data is ready for real-time value added calculations and analysis.
• Legacy Data Migration – Often at the start of a new initiative pre-existing data is required to be migrated or back-filled to the PI System. This data can take the form of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, other real-time databases, corporate databases or rouge databases. Depending on the quality of data, Omicron can help cleanse and prepare the data loading it into the PI Server.