This Blog contains all things relevant to Dream Report in the Manufacturing marketplace.
A leading Historian vendor sampled their customers with the question: “What are the most important uses of a Historian in your business?” The results are interesting, typical, and here is the Ocean Data Systems interpretation. #1 - Obviously, a Historian is a long term repository of data. It stands to [...]
Your customers rely on you to make important decisions on their behalf. They’re over worked and under staffed. They hire a System Integrator to help them with projects and they expect you to steer them in the directions that benefit them the most. In the area of reports and dashboards, technology has [...]
You’re an employee for just about any company. Right now, business is up and you’re working the first shift. You’ve been enjoying your new capabilities since Dream Report was installed. It’s making your life much easier by automating many mundane tasks, and you’re able to have greater visibility into your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Picture this, you are generating a monthly report and need daily summaries, but your history data has 10 second resolution. That means for the report, you’ll need to process a total of roughly 250,000 data samples per calculated variable. Suppose you could ask your data source to pre-calculate the data [...]
It used to be that security through obscurity was enough to protect automation systems from cyber-attacks. Who would really care about those industrial protocols anyway? We know from the famed Stuxnet and its derivatives that automation systems are now a prime target. There have been numerous documented intrusions to automation [...]
