AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Analytics & Calculations

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Allow output expressions when using implicit Event Frame generation modes

In AF/Analytics 2018, implicit modes of Event Frame generation were introduced (Pulse, Step, and Step Continuous), but they do not allow for an output expression like the explicit trigger. Adding this functionality would allow for EF attribute val...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

PI Analysis Service should pick up change in Cache Refresh Interval of AF Tables

It would be nice if the PI Analysis Service could pick up a change in the Cache Refresh Interval of any AF Table being referenced by input attributes with a table lookup data reference. Currently, a service restart is required.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 No status

Improve Data Cache Performance by parallelizing Data Archive update fetches

Currently, when the Data Cache is signed up for updates on multiple data archives, updates from each archive are fetched in series, one after another. When there are many data archives involved (especially if they are geographically dispersed) thi...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Add IsDST() function to AF Analytics

Use Case: calculating which Shift is working within a rotating-shift cycle, which must the follow Daylight Savings Time offset. This function is available in the Performance Equation library, but not in AF. The function itself is simple once one ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Expose SQC calculations to the asset model

As a PI user, I want to be able to visualize and analyze the SQC violations that are generated by the SQC rules.  The ability to save SQC outputs such as  Mean, median, mode, stdev, Cpk, max, min, 1-5 sigma zones, ucl, lcl in the follo...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

A way to specify within analyses whether input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache

A way to specify within the analyses if input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache. Thereby preventing different results during real-time calculation and for instance backfills and decreasing the execution time of ana...
David Scott 8 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Order by name (alphanumerically) the Analysis in the Management tab in PI System Explorer

I would like to be able to order by name (alphanumerically) the Analysis in the Management tab in PI System Explorer after retrieving a list of analyses through a search/filtering. This could be done by clicking on the Name column.
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Trigger automatic recalculation for snapshot changed values

As for now, automatic recalculation is not triggered by changes on snapshot (KB01790), which means auto-recalculation does not work with snapshots values. The idea of it doing otherwise is to help users that mistakenly added a wrong new event to ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Compare timestamps and output most recent value in child elements to parent element

From a varying number of child elements (all sharing the same template), I want to find the most recent timestamp of a same template-based attribute, and output the value with timestamp to an attribute in the parent element. In addition, constantl...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Matlab Integration with AF Analytics

Integrate matlab and AF Analytics so that scheduling of an analytic can be configured in PI to trigger calculations and other analyses being executed within Matlab (and written back to PI).
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Declined