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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dream Report is an automated reporting and dashboard product, available in 14 Languages. Dream Report can switch languages on the fly, based on user login information. Where are the people that care about Dream Report? Well, it appears that they are in just about every country around the globe. This [...]
It just happened again. I was on a call with a young sales type, and was getting the pitch. It started out as, “let me tell you about my product and what its features can do for you”… If you’re a seasoned sales professional, then you’ve already recognized the problem. [...]
