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PI Vision Overview

Jul 11, 2024

PI Vision Overview

Introduction

  • PI Vision: Puts the power of PI System data at your fingertips via an intuitive web-based interface.
  • Accessibility: Accessible through desktops or mobile devices' browsers without installing special programs or apps.
  • Collaboration: Easy to share displays and collaborate, sharing insights into PI System data.

Getting Started

  • Access: Access your PI Vision Server via a browser.
  • Symbol Gallery: Contains a variety of symbols for creating displays including trends, gauges, and tables. Custom symbols are available using extensibility.
  • Creating Displays:
    • Select desired symbol type.
    • Navigate to the relevant asset and attribute from the asset framework structure.
    • Drag the attribute onto your display.
    • Option to search for PI tags.

Advanced Features

Collections

  • Automatic Building: Automatically build out multiple symbols based on asset and attribute criteria.
  • Multi-State Variables: Signal critical alarms on assets.

Navigation and Example Use Case

  • Example Scenario: A control room engineer notices an underperforming wind farm and navigates to the wind farm display for updates.
    • Turbine Issue: Turbine 3 is down. The engineer shares the display URL with the maintenance engineer.
    • Mobile Access: Maintenance engineer accesses the display on a mobile device, sees the gearbox temperature alarm, and resolves the issue.

Additional Features

  • XY Plots: For identifying correlations between data.
  • Event Frame Search and Comparison: Includes pinned events for key batches.
  • Modern Graphics Library: Enhanced visualizations.

Conclusion

  • Empowerment: PI Vision empowers users with easy access to PI System data through a rich web-based user interface, usable anytime and anywhere.