AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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    Install and configure more than one PI System Connector instance per server

    At local industrial sites, we deploy use cases different in nature and end user consumption in separated AF DBs, like OEE, PSM, Autoclave, utilities, etc. We need to centralize these individually into our central PI System. We need to segregate th...
    Christian Leroux almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

    Allow PI Connector for OPC UA to browse OPC UA Servers using Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing

    Background: Some OPC UA Servers have the concept of Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing.The UA Nodes do not exist in the OPC UA Address Space.Nodeids are created\added to the Address Space only when a Client makes a request for the N...
    Dan Lapsley 8 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

    Write back to source system

    OPC UA PI connector to have a feature to write back data to the source system. Example Watchdog data
    Navanita about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

    OPC UA 2.x - Health information and connector statistics

    In the PI Connector for OPC UA 1.3.x, some very useful statistics are available - Events in DA queue, Data rate, Variables Numbe - but 2.0.x these items are not available anymore. Those items should be available for data selection to be monitored ...
    Gabriel Verreault about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

    Allow the AF root element name to be configurable

    The root element in AF is determined by the Connector code.  Allow the name of the root element to be specified by the user.
    Clint Ramsey about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 No status

    PI Connectors buffering (Tau) - provide configuration options

    As a PI Administrator, I would like to be able to DISABLE or configure Tau buffering SO THAT after a network outage the flood of data doesnt overload my network switch and PI DA. My current use case doesn't require the data that may be lost during...
    Guest about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

    Allow analyses to have both Scheduled and Event triggers

    Allow analyses to have both Scheduled and Event triggers, rather than having to choose just one of the triggering mechanisms
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 Declined

    As an administrator, I would like to be able to backfill data that crosses over a versioning event

    Use case: 1. An element has an attribute that looks up information on equipment configuration (ex: a pump rate) 2.  Due to an equipment change, the lookup table and the element were increased in version 3. A backfill needed to be performed o...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

    Asset Analytics should have a performance counter to indicate data loss on the UpdateManager queue

    Currently there is no way to know if Analytics missed important updates (e.g. start of a batch) without analyzing the message logs. However, the AFSDK does provide an indication on the DataPipe if the pipe is in an overflow state, allowing for a c...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

    Insert New Variable in Analysis Template

    I would like to be able to insert a new variable above or below a highlighted variable, instead of having the new variable always go to the bottom of the list. This is very problematic when needing to add a new variable to the top of the list when...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status