The Advanced Process Data Historian Solution

As engineering and manufacturing firms endeavor to effectively manage internal processes, control overheads and tighten product to market timelines, external factors such as industrial regulations and increased competition are testing their ability to succeed. Automsoft believes these firm’s historical process data can hold the key to long-term success. By centralizing and studying plant-wide process data, corporations can reveal new levels of strategic understanding, refine processes, manage costs and enhance decision-making to successfully respond to challenges.

Introducing rapidHistorian

Automsoft’s rapidHistorian™ system is a robust suite of powerful data historian, information management and analysis applications designed to collect, analyze and serve large volumes of process data. rapidHistorian™ delivers market leading data processing capabilities through its high speed distributed database.

rapidHistorian™ is at the heart of the enterprise, empowering businesses to achieve sustained process improvement and collaborative decision-making. rapidHistorian™ enables businesses to achieve a closer alignment of actual output and strategic goals and meet Key Performance Indicators.

Sectors benefiting from Automsoft solutions include:

• Life Sciences
• Power & Utilities
• Renewable Energy
• Oil & Gas
• Manufacturing
• Maritime
• Smart Grid

The rapidHistorian™ family of applications, founded on Automsoft’s core rapidHistorian technology, includes:

• rapidPharma
• rapidPower
• rapidEnergy
• rapidOEM

rapidHistorian Benefits

• Standardize enterprise data visibility by enabling network-wide access to a single, centralized store of both real-time and historical process data.
• Predict & improve process outcomes using rapidHistorian’s trending, analysis and modeling capabilities.
• Meet rigorous regulatory requirements using rapidHistorian’s process management, user authentication and auditing features.
• Reduce operating costs (materials, resources, assets) through effective process, asset and workflow management.
• Accelerate product time to market through ongoing process, batch and asset review and improvement.
• Enable fast enterprise collaboration & decision-making through shared process intelligence and reports available from any network location.
• Avoid expensive asset or process downtime through ongoing asset and process monitoring and maintenance.
• Extend asset and IT system longevity & ROI through continued maintenance, condition-monitoring, OEE analysis and rapidHistorian’s open system interfacing.
• Enhance business intelligence by integrating comprehensive process data into external business systems (e.g. SAP, SharePoint).

Key rapidHistorian Features

• Powerful distributed data historian: rapidHistorian is an open, vendor-neutral historian capable of data capture from advanced process, batch, alarm & event and binary data sources. rapidHistorian’s high-speed data retrieval and storage capacity means virtually unlimited volumes of data can be processed and archived.
• Enterprise data configuration & management: Users can quickly configure rapidHistorian to aggregate and store plant-wide data contained within disparate control system databases. Users can easily define asset groups and hierarchies, connect sets of data, configure management rules, apply calculations, specify presentation formats and add any number of data sources as required.
• Centralized reporting and visualization tools: rapidHistorian’s powerful report template dashboard enables users to quickly build, schedule, export and archive batch, process and alarm & event reports for one or more plant data sources on a batch or continuous basis. rapidHistorian’s XL add-in gives users Microsoft Excel-based querying. Reports can be exported to third party documents or applications.
• Low IT administration: rapidHistorian’s intuitive and robust data management interface ensures fast and open data integration and administrative control. Further data and system reliability can be achieved using rapidHistorian’s optional components which include high availability, caching, redundancy and data replication features.
• Secure data, user authentication & electronic signatures: rapidHistorian enables comprehensive user authentication, audit trail management and electronic signature control ensuring data and system integrity and adherence with regulatory requirements.

rapidHistorian Key Components

• Data Capture: rapidHistorian collects data from any control system or device. Supported data formats include time series, batch (ISA 88), Alarm & Event and binary.
• Reporting Tool: rapidHistorian’s reporting capability collects and manages data retrieved from external control systems and batch execution systems. Users can explore time series, alarm & event and batch data, batch lists, select batch data sources, define report properties and run and save reports.
• Audit Reporting Tool: rapidHistorian provides a tamper-evident record of all interactions with a database. Using the audit server the audit database can track interactions with multiple local or remote rapidHistorian databases and generate comprehensive audit trail reports. Audit reports can include data on a range of audit queries including interactions by specific user, type of activity or within a specific time period.
• rapid-XL Add-In: rapidHistorian’s XL Add-In transforms Microsoft Excel into a powerful rapidHistorian query and modeling tool.
• Digital Signatures: Reports generated with rapidHistorian’s reporting tools can be digitally signed. Signed reports may be versioned and stored in the rapidHistorian database.

rapidHistorian System Availability Components

• Server High Availability: rapidHistorian’s High Availability component allows manufacturers to bolster server uptime to 99.999% availability. This module pairs a primary server with multiple standby servers..
• Database Replication: rapidHistorian’s Data Replication component provides database mirroring on one or more remote servers.
• Caching & Redundancy: The rapidHistorian Caching component ensures continuous data capture in the event of network failure.