Easy, flexible data access is essential. All users, including operators, managers, engineers, maintenance supervisors, etc. have unique requirements and viewing preferences for information. In order to enable each user to work as productively as possible, 800xA Information Management has been designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind.
Data access for operations:
• Integrated Operator Workplace for historical data and other data sources
• Comprehensive Trend Displays for real-time and historical data
• Alarm and Event Viewer and flexible filtering
• Integrated real-time and historical data via Excel Data Access
• Report viewing using File Viewer
Data access for management and engineering:
• Web based data viewing of information
• Desktop Trend Displays.
• Viewing data using Microsoft Excel reports
• Desktop data management utility
• Event browser
• PDL (Production Data Log) Browser
• Batch to batch display
• Retrieving production data
• Remote display clients for custom displays
Seamless views of real time and historical information are provided throughout the system. The practical advantage of this can be seen when looking at values in trend curves; users can step through information over time without having to move from a real-time system to a separate historian. Additionally, data can come from multiple History Servers and other systems, and be combined on comprehensive displays.