New AVEVA PI Server capabilities do more to support your traditional and evolving operations data needs. Learn more.
What is AVEVA PI Server?
AVEVA PI Server is the industry-standard solution for storing, aggregating, contextualizing, and using real-time operations data across your enterprise.
By giving decision makers in operations (and beyond) code-free access to a single, trusted source of accurate data, companies empower staff to identify anomalies, monitor processes, develop insights, and make data-driven decisions.
25
of the top 25 pharma companies use AVEVA PI Server
1000+
Power utilities use AVEVA PI Server
75%
of the world’s crude oil, natural gas and liquids are produced with AVEVA PI Server
9
Of the top 10 mining companies use AVEVA PI Server
“Now we spend less time looking for data and more time analyzing it.”
—Emilio Angles, Power Controls and Information Systems Manager, Kellogg’s plant in Valls, Spain
Benefits
Create a foundational system of record
Consolidate operations data from disparate sources and formats into a single source of truth.
Archive decades of operations data
Securely maintain the original precision, integrity, and availability of time-series data from critical operations.
Find relevant data faster
Use intuitive tagging to make data understandable across your enterprise, not just to SCADA experts.
Features
High-volume, real-time data archive
- Retrieve and store millions of data tags and hundreds of thousands of values per second across multiple decades.
- Use any kind of sensor-based measurements or process data that you collect.
- Deliver millions of values per second in real time to users and systems in multiple locations.
Asset framework for enhanced metadata and context
- Add context to raw data streams.
- Store and organize metadata as well as data models, hierarchies, and templates. Create references to relational and other data from external systems.
- Configure models to structure data according to familiar equipment, assets, and other objects in production processes, including the process flow between them.
Asset analytics you can templatize or backfill for continuous results
- Transform raw data into actionable KPIs and other operational metrics using streaming calculations.
- Create simple or complex calculations with an easy-to-use interface and a rich set of built-in functions, including predictive equipment models, what-if analyses, and multifaceted logic.
- Backfill calculations in bulk based on available data and recalculate on demand.
Event frames that trigger on user-defined thresholds
- Define rules for detecting and logging repeatable events that have a start and end time, such as batch processes, shifts, start-ups, and downtime.
- Automatically capture events and create references to the related process data.
- Analyze and compare the event data for root cause analysis and to define best practices.
Notifications for automatically sending alerts and escalations
- Stay informed on key events and anomalies by sending real-time alerts when a data stream moves beyond user-defined thresholds or multi-condition parameters.
- Customize, control, and templatize notifications.
- Create critical urgency with support for acknowledgement, escalation, and complex data types for initiating work orders in other systems.
Tools and utilities for administering, monitoring, and configuring
- Manage data connectivity, tags, assets, templates, and relationships.
- Configure security permissions and settings for accessing data tags, assets, analyses, notifications, etc. across the system with multiple authentication options, including Windows and OpenID Connect, a standard for single sign-on (SSO).
- Handle many other administrative tasks, including centrally monitoring health and performance characteristics.
Kellogg’s increased mean time between failures by 180%
By channeling digitized operations data into AVEVA PI Server and analyzing it in context, Kellogg’s significantly reduced failure rates and cut critical control points by 64%.
How you can use AVEVA PI Server
Eliminate operations data silos
Create a system of record collecting data from almost any operations source, including remote assets. Give staff access to a single source of truth, from domain engineers to enterprise analysts.
Enable process and production monitoring
Identify critical parameters. Create events, analyses, and notifications that automatically trigger based on real-time data in the unified data repository, empowering stakeholders with actionable insights for optimized decision-making.
Automate operations analysis and reporting
Configure the automatic collection, contextualization, and aggregation of data from across the operational landscape to eliminate manual processes and trigger the generation of more accurate and timely analysis and reporting.
FAQs
AVEVA PI Server is available through the hybrid, edge-to-cloud data management subscription AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure that you pay for with AVEVA™ Flex credits. Account reps will assist you in deciding whether it makes sense to purchase subscriptions for individual servers, purchase an aggregate tag subscription that lets you allocate tag usage dynamically among your servers, or take another approach to fit your specific needs.
Sign up for training workshops, classes, and a wealth of digital resources in multiple languages. AVEVA provides different learning paths for Standard Users, Power Users, Administrators and Developers of AVEVA PI System products, including for AVEVA PI Server. Content can be delivered via instructor-led training, virtual classrooms or private classes.
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To turn data into operational insights that drive sustainability, you need a flexible data management platform. As the engine at the heart of AVEVA PI System, AVEVA PI Server helps you establish a monitoring baseline toward achieving measurable outcomes. It’s the foundation you build on as you seek to understand the performance of critical assets and processes and support advanced analytics. For customers across industries, AVEVA PI Server has played a critical role in helping them minimize utilities usage, reduce emissions, improve circularity, shift to renewables, improve safety and asset life, and automate reporting.
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