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1. DATA SHEET
Data V 4.0
Advanced Historian
Solutions for Process, Manufacturing and Facilities
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2. Data V 4.0 Plant Information Management System
Every business strives for increasing production and decreasing maintenance and operational costs in order to maximize
revenue and a world class plant information management system is the first step to achieve this goal.
SENSYS state of the art Plant Information Management System (PIMS) DataMAX is designed to provide comprehensive
real time and historical analysis of plant information to achieve operational excellence. DataMAX offers a central platform
for enterprise wide visibility of operations which enhances cross functional collaboration and, therefore, accounts for
better decision making.
DataMAX offers a complete data management solution built on a highly robust, tremendously versatile and truly agile
architecture and caters all of your current and future requirements. DataMAX beautifully simplifies the arduous task of
managing your entire plant floor data through its user friendly environment which runs through out the product and
enables users to perform unparalleled data analysis. DataMAX redefines the role of a high performance and high data
integrity real time historian for all key stakeholders related to operations, maintenance, engineering and management.
It’s a unified system designed to align business and technical processes.
Asset Management Business Decision Support Database Laboratory Information
Application Applications System Systems Management Application
OPC-ODBC-Data Connectors
Maintenance Operations Engineering Management
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Data Plant Information Management System
Condition Power
Third Party Historian
Monitoring Management Fire & Gas Safety Shutdown Skid Packages
Control LAN HMI/ SCADA
Scalable
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3. Business Benefits
Enterprise wide Visibility of operations ever so important in order to ensure quality of business products
and is also one of the main factors around which risk manage
DataMAX provides a visualization dashboard to all the key ment is done. Regulatory compliance is especially a must for
stakeholders in an enterprise. In one unified platform, every key batch industries like pharmaceutical and food where organiza-
personnel whether he is related to engineering, maintenance, tions need to carefully monitor the records in electronic form that
production or management, can access his relevant information are modified, archived, retrieved, or transmitted under any
which results in improved collaboration across the enterprise and records requirements set forth by regulatory authorities. Data-
enhances decision making. Real time feel and historical data MAX fully complies with FDA regulation 21 CFR part11 and
analysis are made available to all the stakeholders locally as well allows to keep complete track of events that occur on plant floor
as remotely and each key player remains in touch all the time layer. In addition, DataMAX is built on windows authentication
with the events that occur across the plantfloor and hence security to completely track electronic signatures of each user in
provides a single version of truth. the company to ensure accountability.
Reducing maintenance costs through Improve decision making through
condition based and predictive maintenance Advanced KPI Calculation and Analysis
The challenge of integrating computerized maintenance Importance of exact calculation and careful analysis can never be
management system with real time plant floor data in order to overstated in today’s competitive business world since they
ensure condition based maintenance has become an absolute impact the entire profitability and strategy of a business. Data-
necessity these days. This enables creation of automatic work MAX provides advanced process functions to precisely calculate
orders within the CMMS system according to the events that your KPIs. In addition the bulilt in MAXAnalyst tool provides
occur on plant assets. DataMAX provides seamless integration comprehensive drill down analysis through its analytical tools.
with CMMS systems through industry standard interfaces there- This drastically improves decision making and ultimately lever-
fore provides real time condition based maintenance. This result ages output.
is massive inventory squeeze and huge reduction in maintenance
costs. DataMAX Analytical interface provides tools to carry out
predictive maintenance and save costs associated with calendar
based maintenance activities. DataMAX therefore justifies your
return on investment instantly as it plays such a vital role in
cutting down maintenance and operational costs.
Increasing production through
comprehensive downtime analysis
Needless to say that any manufacturing facility craves for
increase in production and production is indirectly proportional to
downtime. Minimizing downtime maximizes plant availability and
ultimately increasesConnectivity plant’s production. DataMAX
revolutionizes the way of performing downtime analysis through
its powerful Analytical features which extensively cover Alarm and
Event Management and backtracks to the root cause of the
problems that occur. You can drill down to the root cause of any
problem and ensure that such actions are refrained from in the
future to decrease your downtime and increase productivity. Fig 02
Enforcing regulatory compliance across Minimize your deployment costs
the enterprise Cutting down configuration and deployment costs plays an
Proper implementation of Regulatory compliance has become important role in overall controlling business costs. DataMAX
4. Business Benefits
comes with “Deploy Once, Use anywhere” philosophy and deliv- Integration with Business and Plant
ers lowest multi server deployment with lowest cost and without
any performance compromises. Its reusable component archi-
Applications
tecture saves configuration and engineering time. With DataMAX, Integration of Plant floor data with Business and Plant applica-
there is never a need to visit the facility physically because tions is becoming a norm these days since the world is quickly
DataMAX comes with web based (remote) engineering features. moving towards a central integrated solution from which they can
Also, DataMAX extremely simple licensing saves significant time analyze their entire business process and reduce maintenance
and cost on license management. DataMAX smart web based and operational costs. DataMAX not only feeds plant data at real
clients ensures that license is only deployed on the server side time to other business and plant applications but also offers a
and no installation is required on the client side. central visualization dashboard. This enables the users to view
all of their business layers through one portal and therefore
removes the pain of managing multiple applications across the
enterprise. Provides seamless integration with applications like
SAP, Maximo etc.
5. Technical Benefits
Unmatched Reliability Simplified Engineering and Configuration
Reliability is the foremost requirement of any plant information Technical complexity is a major hindrance in the engineering field
management system. DataMAX comes with a completely fault since it is directly proportional to consumption of man hours.
tolerant server architecture. DataMAX ensures round the clock DataMAX expertly addresses that problem by providing extremely
availability of data. In a geographically distributed solution, it flexible engineering environment. DataMAX offers the power of
ensures automatic synchronization of databases in case of any concurrent engineering in which multiple engineers can configure
communication infrastructure break down. All in all, DataMAX the project on a single server at real time and all the changes are
lives to ensure that not a single point historization at any instant incorporated into the project instantly without the need to restart
is missed. any application which signifantly reduces engineering man hours.
Inaddition DataMAX inherently comes with the concept of object
Realtime High Data Integrity templates in shape of MAXObjects which utilizes the power of
software reusability to its fullest and cuts down engineering time.
DataMAX fully realizes the importance of lossless data storage In addition its single framework provides access to all modules
and ensures high data integrity in most stringent of conditions. on a single platform. This completely removes the pain of
managing multiple window applications for engineering and
configuration of projects.
Ultimate Scalability
DataMAX is based on an extremely scalable architecture and
offers the functionality of multi server and multi client plug and
Simplified Licensing
DataMAX revolutionizes the way of licensing with its concept of
play. It has the ability to collect data from disparate units into a Smart Web Based Clients. Now you can save your hours on
central data repository. DataMAX can start off with very small managing multiple complex licensing philosophies. DataMAX
number of points and later on can be scaled to hundreds and requires a single license file to be deployed on the DataMAX
thousands of points simply by replacing the old server license file Server Machine. There is no need to install any license on the
by the new one. This doesn’t even require a server shutdown or client machine since any machine can become a client. This
restart and therefore saves any downtime, whatsoever. removes the concept of seed based clients and enables users to
fully utilize the concept of web applications.
Robustness
Interoperability
DataMAX has the ability to handle huge loads of data under
extensively rugged environment without any server breakdown. DataMAX supports a concurrent multiserver multiclient architec-
Whether it is a rough environment of cement or stressful condi- ture and supports interoperability of the highest order. It can
tions of power, DataMAX comes with stability of the highest gather data from multiple DataMAX servers and other third party
order. Even under these challenging conditions, DataMAX offers servers over OPC and ODBC. DataMAX can act as a server and
instant retrieval of data. client through OPC DA (Data Access), HDA (Historical Data
Access) and A & E (Alarms and Events). DataMAX plug and play
Secure server functionality puts it in a different class altogether.
DataMAX gives you the power of implementing rolebased granu-
lar security across the enterprise. You can control the rights of
users as per your requirements. Furthermore, DataMAX security
Ease of Use
is powered by windows authentication, meaning that your Plant DataMAX comes with a single integrated framework and offers an
Information Management System can use the exact security extremely user friendly environment to work in. Its integrated
model that applies to your corporate network. In addition, Data- framework allows users to access every module from a single
MAX comfortably accommodates multi layer firewall and network platform. The inherent MAXAnalyst enables instant resource
configuration to protect data from unauthorized access and switching and simplifies navigation with the system.
tampering.
6. Key Features
DataMax allows for high speed, secure, reliable, and configu-
rable data collection and analysis, providing historical and
Centralized Data Repository
real-time actionable information on your processes and DataMAX DA and A&E data collection and logging ensure main-
production. Some of the key features that DataMAX offers are: tenance of vast amounts of data in long-term history to enable
user access and application integration.
Alarm and Event Historization DataMAX distributed architecture ensures that data can be
collected from disparate data sources into a single consistent
DataMAX DA and A&E data collection and logging ensure main- database. Following are the key features:
tenance of vast amounts of data in long-term history to enable Data Acquisition from multiple DA and A&E sources
user access and application integration.
This requires guaranteed end to end ZERO % data loss espe- The concept of SCADA partner allows
cially in a distributed architecture. The data includes Value, commenting/annotations on distributed data remotely
timestamps and quality (from DA sources such as PLCs, DCSs, from the central node.
RTUs) and ‘Alarms&Events generation’ inside DataMAX. The Distributed live storage locations
challenge is to communicate the huge flux across the client
Server chains and store it inside the server with fast and efficient Time and Event based scheduling of backups creation.
retrieval. DataMAX historian supports data cache: a database
that redundantly stores data in a format that is streamlined for Provision of Historical Data Access to other parties.
faster retrieval. This enables:
Data acquisition and storage of thousands of events
per second.
Instant Retrieval time (and rendering time) on
Historical Trends and Reports through advanced
sampling algorithms.
User (custom) defined Log Groups
Ability to configure hundreds of thousands of tags/points.
A&E Service A&E Data Server Fig 04
A&E Server A&E Log-Group
Smooth One Click Display Navigation
Data
DataMAX comes with the functionally of MAXAnalyst which
Cache Attaching remote
A&E log groupsto DataMAX provides smooth navigation with in projects. Its one click naviga-
tion provides instant analysis of parameters. Users can seam-
lessly switch controls/resources and parameters can be viewed
Annotation from DataMAX in Real Time and Historical Trends and Alarm Controls in a click
Primary Secondary of a button.
Remote HDA DataServer
DataMAX also provides user visualization and operations (data)
HDA Service controls to analyze the logged data using A&E (EEMUA191
compliant charts, A&E controls (history / current) and DA data
HDA Server Data trends (history / real). The analysis can be applied anywhere in
Fig 03 the project (Screen, Trends, A & E controls and charts).
7. Key Features
Multi server data aggregation and analysis and performs smooth historical analysis on it. This includes :
DataMAX comes with an inbuilt ability of aggregating data from Portable history backups.
multiple sources/servers and provides advanced analysis on it.
Link in place: Enables the users to link up with the history
DataMAX Aggregation displays and EEMUA 191 compliant A&E backups at different servers without copying operation.
charts allow users to apply engineering and business knowledge
to historical data, while built-in engineering unit conversions Availability of data from number of backups
help users view data in a format that makes sense to them in
form of derived tags. (e.g the derived tags).
Event Server and 21CFR11
Aggregate data may be combined with business data to provide
a view of the entire operation. DataMAX fully complies with FDA regulation 21 CFR and allows
to keep complete track of events that occur on plant floor layer.
In addition, DataMAX is built on windows authentication security
Open Connectivity to completely track electronic signatures of each user in the
company to ensure accountability.
An open scalable architecture is a must for modern technological
systems and that’s what DataMAX is built on. It can interact with
other system over multiple interfaces. DataMAX can connect to Real time and Historical trend visualization
other applications over OLEDB with its OLEDB Provider and OPC.
Also comes with Historical Automation Wrapper for acquiring DataMAX offers state of the art trending facility for historical and
historical data. It can also connect with third party applications real time analysis of parameters. DataMAX trending module
via webservices and its own data connectors. DataMAX itself comes with:
comes with 175 native drivers for communication with various
devices over different protocols. Facility to annotate parameters.
Configuration of font style and size
Advanced Reporting Customizable Trend Printing
ReportMax offers comprehensive data export to excel, resulting
in the creation of complex and content rich reports available on Multiple grid support
demand at the click of a button. Share, collaborate, and act to
keep your enterprise functioning flawlessly by harnessing the Alarm Control Limit Display
power of ReportMax.
Display of Advanced Processed Functions
Reports are available in Excel, PDF and Web Formats. Comes
with complete excel capabilities to calculate advanced and
complex formulae through standard excel functions. It also
contains chart displays.
Advanced Data Compression Techniques
DataMAX comes with special compression algorithms to optimize
the disk space utilization for storing data. This drastically
decreases the over head of disk space management for custom-
ers.
Comprehensive Archive Management
Fig 05
DataMAX offers multiple archives to be attached to it at any time
8. Key Features
Role based Granular Security track of incremental runtime data like run hours of equipment
and DataMAX comes with Accumulators with which you can keep
DataMAX comes with role based granular security and enables a close eye on.
organizations to implement n-level security. Administrator can
easily control the level of privileges that need to be given to
Engineers, operators, managers etc. Resulability of Components
DataMAX also provides windows authentication in order to align DataMAX comes with the concept of MAXObjects which utilizes
the product security with your corporate network security. the power of software reusablity. Its a totally object oriented
approach which reduces man hours by creating an object
template and then reusing it to instantiate objects.
KPI Calculation
You can now calculate your Key Performance indicators through Verstility and Flexibility
Advanced Calculation Engine and Processed Functions. Users
can drill down for in depth information regarding KPIs. DataMAX is based on a completely flexible and versatile archi-
tecture. It is completely aligned with the proven standards and
platforms in the industry.
Accumulators
Figure 06 elaborates the standards that DataMAX supports:
Accumulators are an important tool since they are used to keep
Platform
Windows 2003 server
XP Professional
Minimum Core 2 Duo machines with atleast 2 GB RAM
Visualization Network
Web Ethernet
XL Reports Wireless Ethernet
3rd Party A&E and H D A clients
Remote
Data Radio Frequency
Local
Connectivity Application Tools
OPC Security Developer Studio
Web Services
Http Role based
OLEDB Windows Authentication
ODBC Firewall
ADO Antivirus
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