White Paper Abstract

With the evolution of industrial communications systems which offer far greater bandwidth and throughput than conventional carriers such as Ethernet, Profibus, and DeviceNet, data from industrial control systems is available at a much higher resolution than ever before. Furthermore, a plant-wide historian can connect to all manufacturing systems as well as the enterprise to provide the foundation for a vast information archive — one that is much more robust than a traditional relational database. A process historian can lower the cost of implementation, help you improve electronic record security, and offer you a way to leverage your investments to analyze manufacturing data to make significant improvements.