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.

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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PI Interfaces

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Interface / Connector to the SILA Lab Equipment Standard

Hi all,   i got to know this standard: Standards – SiLA Rapid Integration This standard is a really good approach to connect various types of lab equipment. Over it it is possible to fetch for example the RPM of a mixing device, temperature of a h...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No Status

Remotely view logs

I understand that you can remotely view logs using pigetmsg. However this solution does not work for me as the interface is on a controlled network that only allows outbound traffic. I would like a way for the interface node to be able to push out...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No Status

Improved handling of PI Write failures

Provide a configuration option in UniInt interfaces, to enable shutdown of the interface if it consistently receives error messages when attempting to write to PI. Recently had an interface successfully connect to PI but not achieve write access t...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No Status

Allow scan class 0 to be monitored via Performance Counters

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to monitor the point count and other parameters for scan class 0 via Performance Counters. Currently, this is only exposed via the UniInt Health Tags.
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No Status

Batch Framework Interfaces - Allow creation of only the Event Frame levels that exist on data source

The BES/MES sometimes contains recipes with no Procedure, or even Unit Procedure. The Batch Framework Interfaces should allow the creation of only the Event Frame levels that exist on the data source. This would need to be enabled with an interfac...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

Allow PI Interface for EMDVB to have the ability to define the source system Time/TimeZone offset.

PI EMDVB interface stops because of time difference between SQL and PI servers: "Error, SQL Server is ahead of PI Server more than 30 seconds, please adjust clocks. " That means we should adjust the (SQL server) DCS clock. However 30 seconds see...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

Batch interface to support slightly different parsing logic

Some of the fields incoming from the DCS are user entered and prone to errors. Please allow for the option to include slightly different logics to be able to filter out those user errors (such as empty spaces at the end of the string, etc).
Alan Izar almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

Improve the recovery process for long EFGEN batches

Currently if EFGEN is configured to evaluate PI Points at the event end, long batches require recovery start time to be set before the start of the batch. This leads to a long recovery process as many completed batches will be evaluated again.
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No Status

PI EMDVB Interface - Allow to retrieve "description" column content from SQL DB

The interface can retrieves Report events [Event,value="Report"]. Within these events, [Descript] - parameter returning "category" from SQL database. We could not retrieve "description" column contents from the SQL DB [BReportEvent] table. See cas...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No Status

Create event frames from DeltaV Alarms & Events (EMDVB)

Alarm tags created by EMDVB can be difficult to analyze at scale. Event frames are a natural format for alarms because they have start and end times, durations, and can have different severities. PI client tools allow simple querying of event fram...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined