When a company decides to make a capital investment in data historian software, it can often be overwhelming. Searching through the complete list of data historians in the process database family will reveal nearly a dozen data historians in the marketplace, not to mention open source options that an IT team may decide to attempt. By definition, data historian software should be:
Many companies do not realize the advantages that historical process data can offer, helping them to save both time and money. Ed Stern, Vice President of Canary Labs, discusses his experience in the matter:
When shopping for a data historian, we know that you have serveral choices. Here are the 12 reasons that Canary will be your best return on investment.
Hosted on June 7th, 2016 by Jeff Knepper with Canary Labs
I recently received an email from a potential system integrator customer that wanted to see how the Canary data historian and trending software would meet their client's needs. After addressing all concerns, I thought it would be worthwhile to share as it demonstrates how well the Canary system works in comparison to other products like Pi, GE, or Rockwell software.
Time and time again, companies who make an investment in the Canary data historian and trending software solutions see great returns on their investment. An independent oil and natural gas company made a $22,500 investment in the Canary data historian and Axiom trending and analytic software and saved over $250,000 through monitoring and improving the efficiency of their equipment.
Fabricated Oil Company (FOC), anonymity requested, uses Canary's process historian and trending analysis software solutions to collect, store, and monitor time series process data in fourteen of their data vans throughout various oil plays in the United States.
Water Utilities need historical and real-time data to be empowered to make a difference to their customers. Analysis needs to take place in near real-time and in minutes instead of hours or days. If an employee has to go to their IT people or some programming guru to ask for data, it is not going to happen or be effective. By the time the data is retrieved, the thought process has been lost or the original question of investigation is probably not there anymore. Cost effective analytics can only occur if this basic concept is applied. Get the right information to the right people at the right time!
Canary's trend analysis software AxiomTrend not only allows you to visualize the process data from your data historian, but also to create calculated trends. Running calculated trends is extremely quick and easy.
Canary software is being used by a major cheese producer and re-packer (privacy requested) in Wisconsin, and has been successfully implemented to assist the production process. Canary's data historian and Axiom software is being used to monitor and provide trending solutions for all data sensors in the plant, including temperatures, pressures, utilities, and production numbers.
