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.
A world-leading chocolate processing company (privacy requested) uses the Canary System to log data from OPC servers and then trend that data within their HMI displays. By providing real time data trends to their HMI displays, they are able to monitor critical processes ensuring top product quality and manufacturing efficiency.
Let's be honest, every company says their product is easy to use. I recall a time that a friend bought a high end European espresso machine. The salesperson told him "this machine is specially designed so you can easily make the perfect cappuccino". The salesmen continued to explain the savings that would occur by skipping the $5 coffee line every morning. Three hours and several first degree burns later my friend gave up and returned to the 7:00AM morning lineup at his local coffee joint.
