Ocean Data Systems shares our thoughts and best practices with media around the world. Here is a highlight of just some of the areas we’ve contributed.
The human brain is good at detecting differences in things to better understand them. If you show someone a pattern taken from a data set over a period of time, they will be able to determine where the pattern is headed, or where it breaks. In other words, you can [...]
Here's the experiment. You take a piece of automation equipment, place it on the Internet, and then track what happens to it. That is exactly what some folks at "infracritical" did. The experiment was called Project RUGGEDTRAX - SCADA / ICS Analysis. Their findings are attached in this PDF document shared [...]
Dream Report is known for its report generation capability and outputting reports in PDF, Excel and CSV file formats. An important part of any Report Generation product is the ability to support user interaction, manual data entry and report organization. For those, the ideal solution comes in the form of [...]
Kepware just announced their new version of KEPServerEX version 5.16, and it includes a Local Historian with OPC HDA capability. OPC HDA is the History Data Access standard by the OPC Foundation. Dream Report supports the OPC HDA standard, and with version 4.6 R3, Dream Report also delivers the ability [...]
Version 4.6 of Dream Report delivered a lot of new features. Since its initial release in April of this year, we've introduced a couple additional enhancements in the form of Release 2 and Release 3. The full release notes are listed below. One of the most interesting new features in [...]
When you’re evaluating competitive alternatives, do you keep your sights on the end goal? For example, with respect to information delivery (compliance reports, performance reports, corporate dashboards), there are solutions that will deliver it all in one package. The basic generation of data isn't all that you are concerned with. [...]
Dream Report is delivered to the world through our OEMs, and a select set of direct channel partners. Software Toolbox is just such a partner, and was recently representing Ocean Data Systems at the Inductive Automation - Ignition Community Conference 2014. We are proud to have John Weber and Software [...]
White Paper Summary: Tools for report generation in industrial applications have been few and far between. Those that exist typically focus on functionality to deliver “Compliance” level reports, those reports that are absolutely necessary and core to the business at hand, and are typically vendor specific offerings. As such, functionality [...]
The first definition of a batch needs to begin with a process that has a variable start and end time. The two may be linked, for example a variable start and a known process that ends a defined period later, or it may be a process that ends on any [...]
An Asset Management Plan (AMP) is a tactical plan for managing an organisation's infrastructure and other assets to deliver an agreed standard of service. Typically, an Asset Management Plan will cover more than a single asset, taking a system approach - especially where a number of assets are co-dependent and [...]
