consistency“ProcessTemplate Manager is the most intuitive batch analytical software I have seen...”

Raj Bhadauria, AOC

Virtually every process has repeatable time segments or events. What if you could use the information from this repetition to create a template that would help you improve process consistency?

PI ProcessTemplates from OSIsoft gives you that ability. Building on thefoundation of PI Batch, ProcessTemplates identifi es process events andmeasures their repeatability, providing an easy way to improve consistency. It measures key performance indicators over repeatable time segments and uses this information to create templates of expected behavior.

ProcessTemplates stores and maintains these templates and their hierarchies in the PI Module Database. The Module Database is a component of thePI System that helps you classify and organize your operational data. You can also preserve related information, properties and the context of each template.

Use PI ProcessTemplates to:

● Reduce cycle times● Reduce process variability● Identify process bottlenecks● Improve product quality● Raise real-time alarms based on non-linear limits● Notify key personnel when events do not conform to schedule● Increase repeatability of turbine start-ups

PI ProcessTemplate Manager evaluates key performance indicators over

repeatable events.

OSIsoft has exclusive rights to sell and distribute the ProcessTemplates product,

which is owned and developed byExele Information Systems, Inc.

THE PI SYSTEM: PI ProcessTemplates

The SQC histogram (above) and the SQC chart (at right) measure process repeatability. The result is a reduction in production cycle times and increased production consistency.

“PI and PI Batch were used to reduce the cycle times of our batches by 40% and saved us$5 million in two years...”

Barry MacGregorManager of Manufacturing SystemsDow Corning Corporation

PI ProcessTemplates consists of three products:

● ProcessTemplate Manager● ProcessTemplate Monitor● ProcessTemplate Add-In for PI ProcessBook

ProcessTemplate Manager is used to create and edit templates. Templates may be created based on any point in time into the process or deviation from the mean. The user selects a PI tag or alias and a repeatable time range for variables such as heat phase, paper reel turn-up, and turbine start-up. Templates are created by calculating the maxima, minima or “n” standard deviations of tag value at evenly spaced intervals over the selected time range. The templates can also be imported from external data sources, like Comma Separated Value (CSV) fi les.

consistencyTHE PI SYSTEM: PI ProcessTemplates

ProcessTemplates is used by Dow Corning to improve quality and enableparametric releases of product based on operating conditions. The resulting increase in product yield and elimination of testing bottlenecks accounted fora 40% reduction in batch cycle time.

ProcessTemplate Monitor is aWindows NT/2000 or Windows XP service that compares currentprocess values against the active template, tracking the repeatabilityof the process in real-time. After saving a template to the Module Database, the user creates an “Active Monitor” to oversee a process and determine whether it conforms

to a given template. PI records the process status, designating it as inactive, compliant, or in alarm (high or low), relative to the template.

Microsoft’s ActiveX Server technology is integrated into the ProcessTemplateMonitor and allows programmatic modifi cations to active templates. Loadschedules, for example, can be stored as templates and updated in real-time.The ProcessTemplate Monitor evaluates the current process value versus theactive templates and also checks for updates in the active templates.

Power generators confi dently buy and sell power on the spot markets by comparing true power generationcapacity to load schedules. The generation capacity and load schedules are updatedin real-time.

Real-time process variability alarming leads to improved product quality and increased production effi ciency.

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Template Monitor provides immediate notifi cation of non-compliance with

scheduled generation dispatch.

ProcessTemplate Add-In to PI ProcessBook enables you to use PI ProcessBook’s Data Set technology with ProcessTemplates. Data Sets store local calculations,queries and other information within a ProcessBook display. The ProcessTemplate Add-In stores template average and the high/low limits, and absolute or deviation from mean, as a function of time. ProcessBook plots each Data Set along with the corresponding process tag to illustrate process compliance to the template both historically and into the future.

Discover how you can use PI ProcessTemplatesto improve consistency in your process

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