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.
Have you ever noticed how many products are available just in one language? It’s great if you only need one language and that’s the one they offer, but the languages that a product supports, and how it does it, tells you a lot about the company and the quality of their [...]
Give engineers a tool, they can solve one problem. Give engineers a toolkit, and they can solve all problems. That philosophy drove the development of automation products for the past 30 years. PLCs developed multiple languages so engineers could have the best tools for the application. HMI/SCADA products developed scripting [...]
Control Magazine and ARC Advisory Group developed a list of the Automation Industry's Top Dogs, the top 50 companies in the world, based on their automation based revenues. Link to Top Automation Companies What's nice to see is that 5 of the top 10 companies have a relationship with Ocean [...]
Dream Report received a nice highlight in Water Efficiency Magazine. Check out the SCADA Update article starting on page 38. Download the PDF of WaterEfficiencyMagazineMay2015 Water Efficiency is a great publication and there are many past issues worth viewing. http://www.waterefficiency.net/ Please note - the article lists that Dream Report offers [...]
It’s a rather obvious concept, technology has been driving the evolution of automation. In the dark ages we had automation though mechanics and pneumatics. With the development of sensors and controllers, automation became programmable and we were able to communicate electronically. Standard Protocols lead to layered solutions – the HMI [...]
Automatic CSV Data Processing for Industrial Reports and Dashboards In the world of industrial automation, CSV (Comma Separated Variables) file formats are very common and an excellent way to transfer data between systems for report generation and performance dashboards. The process required for automated CSV File importing are: Automated CSV [...]
9 Elements of a Battle Card The marketing and sales of any product is enhanced when there is a clear understanding of the target customer, market, features, benefits, etc. That’s where a Battle Card comes in. The 9 elements of a Battle Card are: Marketplace Conditions Target Customers, Markets and [...]
If Dream Report were an Element, Which one would it be? After watching one of my favorite series of all time, I started to wonder… Would it be Hydrogen? It’s the simplest of all the elements. It’s the most abundant element in the universe, an attribute of Hydrogen we are [...]
Clean-in-place (CIP) A method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes, vessels, process equipment, filters and associated fittings, without disassembly. The benefit to industries that use CIP is that the cleaning is faster, less labor-intensive and more repeatable, and poses less of a chemical exposure risk to people. Starting as a manual process, [...]
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 has trumped ease [...]
