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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PI Interface for OPC AE Instrument tag any attibute should work

As now it is just Source and Area event attributes that work for the instrument tag. It should be possible for any attribute to work as a filter in instrument tag. It is not every OPC AE server that supports Source and Area.
Hobbe over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Make PI ICU to support gMSA for Service creation

gMSA are the way of having secured logins for windows services and we try to spread the awareness to switch from standard user accounts to these account type. However as most of the PI applications supports to define the gMSA during installation o...
Ondřej Kafna 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

Support for the VT_UI4 data type

As a PI System User I would like to archive and analyse VT_UI4 data using the PI System.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Support float64 point type in PI Interface for China Network Isolator

China Network Isolator interface does not support float64 point type, which is required by many customers in China. Right now, they have to change the point type to string first and then to float64 by analytics, this will consume two times of lice...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 3 No status

PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Have the FTB Interface support multiple stop events for Unit Procedures

There are instances where a batch must be manipulated creating two Unit Released events in the event file. The desired behavior for the PI FactoryTalk Batch Interface would be for the second end time to overwrite the first end time when data is be...
Guest 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

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 3 months 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 3 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

OPC Alarms&Events interface should natively support event frame creation

As a PI Interface for OPC Alarms & Events user that would like to leverage AF Event Frames for more advanced analysis, I would like for the OPC AE interface to have an option to natively create event frames that open when a Status = Active mes...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 2 No status

Enhance the OPC Interface to specify which groups are not receiving data

When a polled group does not receive data for more than 2 scan cycles, the interface updates the device status health point to 5 | Error | One or more groups not getting data. It will be useful to also specify which scan classes did not receive da...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status