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AVEVA PI Vision ™ ™
See the real-time information you need now
AVEVA PI Vision is a web-based display and dashboard building tool that gives you
configurable, self-service visualization for your real-time operations data. Whether you’re
an operator on the floor or an executive in the head office, you can build reusable displays
to understand your operations and conduct on-the-fly monitoring and investigation of
your assets and process events. With workspaces designed for immediate industrial
operations, you can simply drag, drop, and configure your analyses and displays.
How can you rely on what you see? AVEVA PI Vision natively integrates with a shared
data infrastructure that everyone across your enterprise trusts – AVEVA™ PI Server. By
directly tapping into enriched data, AVEVA PI Vision presents information in the context
most relevant to you. That way, you can quickly determine the source of problems, share
the findings with your team, and take the appropriate action right away.
Key features
y See real-time process displays in a browser. Securely
access, share, and monitor – anywhere.
“Today, our process experts follow two hours
y Search the homepage to quickly find your display. of training [on AVEVA PI Vision] and they can
y Build custom displays in an intuitive workspace with access our full production process data.”
a large selection of adaptable symbols and graphics. -
Marie-Anne Colocouris
y Display symbols infused with your process and Senior Manager, Product and Process Robustness, GSK
contextual data. Just search, click, drag, and drop.
y Attach multi-state behaviors to symbols and
graphics for visual alarms. Operators and engineers. You play a crucial role in
overseeing and maintaining operations and processes.
y Use the asset-based structure to:
Every day you face challenges from process upsets and
· Switch the display’s context from one asset equipment failures to unexpected downtime and more.
to another. You need consistent access to real-time operations data
to immediately troubleshoot issues or to anticipate and
· Carry asset context across different displays
prevent problems in the first place. With the AVEVA
with contextual navigation links.
PI Vision self-service model, there’s no need to ask IT
· Automatically convert a symbol on the display into for access to data, make multiple trips back and forth to
a symbol collection for all similar assets. the control room, or engage in lengthy back-and-forth
discussions just to pinpoint and pull the data you need.
y Select data from multiple displays and see the trends
together in the ad hoc workspace for impromptu C-suite, managers, and other business users.
trending and analysis. Operations data offers an answer to many of your
y Use expressions on your data or display symbols to questions. Is production meeting forecast? Is the
create immediate calculations. company compliant with regulations? How is the
entire enterprise’s fleet performing? Without access
y Use event-contextualized search, analysis, and
to real-time data streams, you may have had to make
comparison to investigate data associated with
decisions based on data from yesterday, last month,
important conditions and time periods affecting
or last quarter. With AVEVA PI Vision, you see and use
your operations.
live information. From aggregated data and KPIs to raw
y Display data from across your entire enterprise with values, AVEVA PI Vision provides reliable information
native AVEVA™ PI System™ integration. so you can make quick decisions.
y Integrate with AVEVA™ Asset Information
Management and AVEVA™ System Platform.
02 AVEVA PI Vision
Simple visualization, powerful results
Increased operational awareness
Need an operations overview? Just open the AVEVA Did you want to share it with someone? Head into
PI Vision display workspace. Pick the symbol you’ll use to display settings, search, and select the desired user or
visualize your data. Search your asset structure for the user groups, assign their permissions, and save. They
site, equipment, or data of interest, and drag and drop will automatically have access to the dashboard.
the item onto the display. Getting started is that simple.
In a few simple steps, you can provide a real-time
Want to add some visual interest or additional context overview of important assets and processes that your
to the display? Drag in some graphics from the out-of- operators and decision-makers can view through any
the-box library. Arrange the symbols and graphics and smartphone, tablet, or laptop.
configure their style and behavior according to your
preferences. Then, name and save the display.
Figure 1: This AVEVA PI Vision display presents KPIs, trends, alarm states, event data, and other contextual information for a wind turbine. With one click, you can
change the display’s context to another turbine in the fleet. Maintain fleet-wide operational awareness with just one dashboard.
The National Institutes of Health in the United States increased equipment
reliability by 50% and saved 10-17% in utility savings per year using AVEVA
PI System, including AVEVA PI Vision, to monitor asset conditions, perform
predictive maintenance, and optimize processes.
03 AVEVA PI Vision
Improved response time
Are you missing important events or alarms? AVEVA Look at the different attributes that make up the event’s
PI Vision uses event-enriched data from AVEVA process behavior. Zoom and scan the event trend, drop
PI Server so you can add an events table to your cursors on it, and manipulate it to efficiently analyze
dashboard. When you assign tables or symbols multi- the information. You can also use the event comparison
state behaviors, they’ll change color or blink to grab your feature to overlay this event or its attributes with others
attention when exceeding the thresholds you’ve defined. and identify similarities or differences.
When an event triggers, AVEVA PI Vision attaches a With your analysis complete, annotate the event with
color-coded severity level to help you prioritize responses. your findings to promote instant collaboration and
Dive into the priority event. Click the acknowledge button establish a standard for future responses.
to let your team know you’re responding.
Figure 2: In this screenshot of AVEVA PI Vision event details, you can see a bearing temperature event, including trends for the attributes that make up the
event. This major event (orange severity level) appears to have been triggered by a sudden drop in the inboard bearing temperature (purple trend). The user has
acknowledged the event and is providing a comment, indicating to colleagues that they are troubleshooting the event.
GSK, the global healthcare company with the largest vaccine portfolio and pipeline,
used AVEVA PI Vision to view critical process parameters. AVEVA PI Vision helped
detect abnormalities that even GSK’s classical alarm system could not detect.
GSK’s use of AVEVA PI Vision led to improved data access, proactively corrected
process deviations, increased yield using golden batch comparison, and more than
10 million euros per year in savings.
04 AVEVA PI Vision
Streamlined root cause analysis
Notice some strange behavior in your operations data? Easily change scales and add average, minimum, and
Dive into the ad hoc workspace to investigate further. maximum trend lines to better understand your data.
Drag your cursor across your trend to quickly see and Get an overview of key values with a quick glance at
compare process values at specific points. the summary table. The ad hoc tools in AVEVA PI Vision
make exploring your data simple.
Figure 3: In the AVEVA PI Vision ad hoc workspace, this user has added 10-minute rolling averages for three assets’ active power. Alongside those three, the
user also added the expected power for one of them. Visualizing them altogether on the same trend, the user can conduct an ad hoc analysis to compare actual
behavior to expected behavior.
Kimball Electronics, a leading contract manufacturer of electronic subassemblies,
used AVEVA PI System with AVEVA PI Vision to identify spikes in screwdriver
torque values and to speed up root cause analysis, which saved Kimball
Electronics $50,000 to $100,000 when compared to previous failures.
05 AVEVA PI Vision
Seamless integration of asset data
Worried about finding the time to add new assets or AVEVA PI Vision detects the assets in operation and
remove retired assets from displays? Since AVEVA automatically populates your displays with the most
PI Vision uses AVEVA PI Server asset structures and up-to-date information. Watch as your display instantly
templates, you can simply build one display and reuse it reflects the changes you make to your operations.
across hundreds of assets.
Figure 4: This AVEVA PI Vision display includes a symbol collection. Using the symbols and graphics included, the user built just one of the tiles in the display,
then selected the tile, right clicked, and chose ‘convert to collection’. AVEVA PI Vision automatically generated the rest of the tiles and populated them with the
information. Now the user can easily see that three of the pumps are approaching time for a service check (orange).
TC Energy used AVEVA PI Vision to generate hundreds of dynamic screens for
operators and engineers. Thanks to the solution’s efficiency and scalability, the
company easily deployed and maintains a visualization platform that now serves
thousands of operators.
06 AVEVA PI Vision
What’s new in the latest release?
y Event Comparison enhancements: y Custom display- and symbol-level
configuration options
· Overlay attributes: Overlay multiple event frame
attributes on the same event trend. · Administrators can now standardize AVEVA
· Zoom and pan: Zoom in on specific areas of your PI Vision display styles. Configuration options
event trends for a closer analysis of your data. Pan include display background colors, Trend
backward or forward in time to see process data symbol trace colors, time bar duration defaults,
leading up to or after events. event severity colors, and many more options
for standardization.
· Maximize a trend: Expand the event comparison
trend to fill up the entire trend area during analysis. y Updating trend cursor on drag
· Trace configuration: Show traces and scales with
· Watch trend cursor values update as you drag
colors and line styles that make them easy to
cursors across the trend area to quickly identify
understand and prioritize.
and resolve active process issues.
· Gantt chart alignment by name: Use the
alignment features on the Gantt chart to align by Available with AVEVA™ Flex
child event names rather than by where they fall in
Achieve faster return-on-investment and remove
the sequence.
traditional barriers to software adoption with a flexible
· Gantt chart expand and collapse: Quickly expand subscription program. The AVEVA Flex subscription
and collapse levels of the events in the Gantt chart. program spans any mix of cloud, hybrid, and
on-premises solutions with simple license purchases,
y Units of measure
usage, and management.
· Switch units of measure (UOM) on a data item
and symbol basis. View asset-based attributes
and calculation values in the UOM that is most
applicable to your region.
AVEVA PI Vision is globally available through AVEVA Flex.
Click here to learn more about AVEVA Flex.
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