Welcome to

FactoryTalk
Historian Training

Presenter: Mike Eide

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 FactoryTalk
Historian
Architecture and
Configuration

Lesson 1

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 Applications for Manufacturing Historians

• Historians are utilized across many industries and applications:

– Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, Automotive, Life Sciences
– Continuous Process, Packaging, Material Routing
• Key benefits of a Historian:
– Capture and process high-speed, time-series data
– Store in a central (Site or Enterprise) data repository for future analysis
• Historical data is used for:
– Analysis through calculations, statistical processes, quality controls
– Supports business and operational analysis:
• Trends and graphs of data

Turns Data into Information!

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 FactoryTalk Historian SE

Pervasive Information Across Enterprise, Site, Machine/Device

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 FactoryTalk Historian SE

MANAGEMENT

Historian Enterprise Edition

SUPERVISOR

Historian Site Edition

OPERATOR

Historian Machine Edition

Right Information, Right Time, Right Fidelity and Applications…

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 FactoryTalk Historian SE

FactoryTalk
Historian
Server

After Compression

Interface
node
After Exception
(Dead banding)

Data
Source
(DCS, PLC,
etc.) Raw Data Through exception and compression
filtering, the amount of data points
stored in order to represent the actual
trends are significantly reduced

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 FactoryTalk

• FactoryTalk LiveData
• FactoryTalk Directory
• FactoryTalk Security
• FactoryTalk Activation
• FactoryTalk Diagnostics
• FactoryTalk Audit
• FactoryTalk View SE Trending

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 Ordering Information

• FactoryTalk Historian servers include:

– Data point-limited license (either Rockwell or 3rd-Party Data Points)
– One node-locked FactoryTalk Historian DataLink (Excel Add-In) license
– VantagePoint Server with One Named User License
– RSLinx Enterprise
– FactoryTalk Administration Console
• Related products available:
– 3rd-Party Historian Interfaces
– FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView Client - Concurrent
– ProcessBook Authoring Client, Single User or Concurrent
– DataLink Excel Reporting tool, Single User or Concurrent
– FactoryTalk Historian BatchView Add-in, Single User or Concurrent
– FactoryTalk Historian SQC Processbook Add-in, Single User or Concurrent

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 Miscellaneous Information

• System Requirements
• Choosing a Setup Type
• System Limits

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 Historian – Basic Architecture
(Example 1)
Client stations Client stations
- VantagePoint ` - ProductionCentre `
- ProcessBook ` - Batch
- DataLink ` - Metrics
- View

Can have Server

and Interface node FactoryTalk
on same computer
Historian Server
with Interface
Node

RSLinx RSLinx
`
Enterprise ` Enterprise

Data Sources
(DCS, PLC, etc.)

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 Historian – Basic Architecture
(Example 2)
Client stations Client stations
- VantagePoint ` - ProductionCentre `
- ProcessBook ` - Batch
- DataLink ` - Metrics
- View
FactoryTalk
Recommended to Historian Server
have Interface
Nodes on separate
computers from
Server

Interface RSLinx RSLinx Interface

node Enterprise
` Enterprise ` node

Data Sources
(DCS, PLC, etc.)

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 Historian – Basic Architecture
(Example 3)
Client stations Client stations
- VantagePoint ` - ProductionCentre `
- ProcessBook ` - Batch
- DataLink ` - Metrics
- View
FactoryTalk
Also recommended Historian Server
to have Interface
Nodes and Linx
Enterprise on same
Computers

Data Sources
(DCS, PLC, etc.)

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FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME)

• New Embedded Historian Module for ControlLogix

• Capability for High Speed data collection in the backplane

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 Specifics

• Backplane connectivity
• 10 millisecond scan rates
• 2500 events / second
• High Speed Data collection utilizes controller trend object
– Very fast
– Very deterministic data collection

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 Specifics

• One (1) and Two (2) GB memory sizes

• Store from hours to years
– Worst case: 4 or 14 hours (1GB vs 2GB)
• Most customer applications will need Plant Historian for persistent
storage

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 Remote / Offline Data Collection

• Collect data where you don’t want a PC

– No OS/Patches/Viruses
– Hazardous areas
– Remote areas – hard to service

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When connection is down,
the module will store data
and forward the data once
the connection is back up.

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When connection is down,
the module will store data
and forward the data once
the connection is back up.

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 Specifics

• Provides ability to do data collection where there is no PC infrastructure

at the remote site
• Data Transfer to plant historian happens automatically once the
communication is established

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 Specifics

• Embedded application
• Easy to configure
• No OS / Patches etc. to maintain
• Automatic data roll-ups
• Built-in Web-UI

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 Conclusion

High Speed Data Reliable On Machine Data

Remote / Off-line Data Low cost of ownership

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 Conclusion

• Embedded Historian
• Automatic roll-up to Plant Historian
• Allow for Historian Clients to connect
– VantagePoint, DataLink, ProcessBook etc.
• Include calculations
– Performance Equations and Totalizers

Historian in your hand !!

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 FactoryTalk Historian Positioning
FactoryTalk Historian ME
• Machine / Line Historian
• Temporary Storage
– Limited to circular buffer in Flash
memory
– Requires Plant Historian for long term
storage
• Reliable data collection
– If the machine and chassis is powered
and the controller is running the
machine, the data gets collected
• Backplane data collection
– Scan rates down to 10 msec
• Embedded Historian
Module
– No OS or patches to maintain
• Full Historian Capability
– Built-in Basic Calculation Engine for
• Performance Equations
• Statistical Totalizers
• Low Deployment cost
– Easy to buy, Easy to own
– Up and running in less than an hour
FactoryTalk Historian SE FactoryTalk Historian EE
• Plant / Site Historian • Enterprise Historian
• Persistent Storage • Persistent Storage
– As much as Drive space allows – As much as Drive space allows
– Archive / backup strategy can be put in – Archive / backup strategy can be put in
place for long term storage place for long term storage
• Redundancy required for • Redundancy required for
reliability reliability
– If minimal data loss is required, – If minimal data loss is required,
redundant architectures has to be redundant architectures has to be applied
applied from the controller and up. from the controller and up.
• Data collection based on • Data collection based on
Network Network
– Scan rates down to 100-250 msec max – Scan rates down to 100-250 msec max
– Significant 3rd party connectivity – Significant 3rd party connectivity
– DA Component (OPC, OLE DB) – DA Component (OPC, OLE DB)
• Windows Server Based • Windows Server Based
Historian Historian
– Maintaining a Windows Server OS – Maintaining a Windows Server OS
• World Class Historian • World Class Historian
– Added Advanced Calculations – Added Advanced Calculations
• VB.Net Advanced Computing Engine • VB.Net Advanced Computing Engine
• Analysis Framework • Analysis Framework
• Easy to deploy • Typically requires services
– Up and running in less than a day – Complex Architectures
– Multiple server connection setups etc.
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 Software Architecture

DATA SERVER CLIENT

FT Services Platform FT Services Platform FT Services Platform

RSLinx Enterprise FT Directory Microsoft Excel
Historian FTLD Interface MS SQL Server Historian FTLD Interface
RSLogix 5000 VantagePoint Server ProcessBook
SoftLogix 5860 Microsoft Excel DataLink
RSLinx Classic Historian Server Xcelsius
FT View SE Server VantagePoint Clients

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 Installation

Appendix A – Installing FctoryTalk Historian SE

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