Manufacturing Industry
Historians now boosting performance in real time.
Manufacturing Business Technology, September, 2006
By Hope Neal, contributing editor Data historians traditionally had one purpose: monitoring equipment performance by collecting specific pieces of information, such as measuring the temperature of an engine every five seconds. Today, a new generation of data historians is bridging the gap between plant-floor and ERP systems by delivering correlated information that aids business decision-making.
One analyst refers to these new offerings as enterprise historians. "They're intended to be repositories of information--equivalent to a real-time data warehouse--that not only collect data you need to understand what's going on within the four walls of a plant, but also a place where you might roll data up for enterprisewide analysis, says Alison...
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