Embedded Historian for Industrial Unit Data Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional industrial historian systems are loosely coupled with control architectures, leading to inefficiencies in data collection and integration, particularly in networked environments, and fail to provide seamless data exchange between enterprise components, which can result in network connectivity issues and compliance challenges with regulations like 21 CFR Part 11.
Innovation Solution
Integrating a historian directly into industrial units or products to collect and store data in real-time, mitigating network dependencies and enabling immediate data access, while employing a locator component to detect and aggregate data from embedded historians, facilitating compliance and integration with third-party applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If a conventional PC-Historian is used on the controller backplane, then data collection speed is improved, but device complexity and integration issues increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the historian functionality directly into the industrial unit or product itself, eliminating the need for a separate PC-Historian device on the controller backplane. This integration consolidates data collection, storage, and retrieval functions within the industrial unit, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high-speed data collection capabilities through direct embedding in the product's control architecture.
2Ease of manufacture
If historians are loosely coupled with control architecture, then ease of installation is improved, but data collection efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements segmented historian components embedded within individual industrial units or products, each capable of independent data collection and storage. This segmentation allows for easier installation and configuration within specific units while improving overall data collection efficiency through localized real-time processing and reducing the need for complex centralized data management.
3Adaptability or versatility
If networked data exchange is implemented between factories, then adaptability is improved, but network connectivity issues increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary data processing, filtering, and caching within embedded historians in industrial units before data is transmitted over the network. This preliminary action reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted across the network, minimizing network traffic and reducing the impact of network connectivity issues while maintaining adaptability for data exchange between distributed factories.
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AI summary
Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof.