AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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    Have the FTB interface not truncate the trailing "-#" index (e.g. UnitProcedureName-1) at the end of a Unit Procedure

    Some FactoryTalk batch processes have overlapping Unit Procedures with trailing indexes. Because the trailing index is truncated it results in overlapping Unit Procedures with the same name which are then merged. The desired behavior would be for ...
    Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Have the FTB interface capture "Active Step Change Commencing" events as event frames

    Some FactoryTalk batch processes require "Active Step Change Commencing" event to be part of the batch hierarchy however the PI Interface for Factory Talk Batch starts event frames only on [EVENT] = "System Message" or "State Change".
    Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Update PI-AF install procedure to handle custom PIFD Naming

    If hosting multiple AF DBs on a single SQL instance it is necessary to rename the PIFD default name to a unique name. For instance PIFD_<AFHostname> The current PI-AF install routine does not handle this situation - forcing a step to rename ...
    thomasco about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Resizing the Installation Complete and Installation Error Window

    For users who are performing installations through the use of PI System installation kits they would like the ability to resize the Installation Complete (Installation Error) Window so that they can get all of the details on all of the modules of ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined

    Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

    Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

    Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

    Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

    The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

    Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

    Capture data from ABB 800xA that doesn't follow ISA88

    ABB 800xA offers a batch capture mode that is more flexible than ISA88 since it doesn't match all unit procedures to units, but rather acquires them at the beginning of the batch. Currently the interface is designed to only retrieve batches that f...
    Alan Izar over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 3 Declined

    Batch Interface for Honeywell Experion

    We are in need of a PI Batch/AF Events Interface to store data from Honeywell Experion Batch or Honeywell Procedure Analyst into PI Asset Framework.
    Jürgen Schmidt over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status