1. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 1997 Year in Review Technical Perspective by Don Smith

2. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference It was a good year? Health Prosperity Enjoyment

3. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Products Technical Support Field Service Training Web information System Evolution

4. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Process-Book  A beta year  One giant step for OSI, VBA

5. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI Data Archive (PI3)  Version 3.2 released  Batch subsystem  Performance equations  Totalizer  Support for SMT (system management)  Performance from profiling

6. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-DataLink  version 1.7 beta  Excel Office97 support (large arrays)  PI3 data types float 16,32,64; integer 16,32 digital states (state sets); text variables time stamp enhanced  Percent good revealed

7. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI Profiles, a picture window  surface representation (high data density)  Product view (batch numbers)  Grade plotting; Defect over-plot  Fast drawing  Roll / Set

8. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Batch Vue - release 2.0 (trends & sheets) ODBC - friendly relations again PI-Manual Input PINET for PI3 & PI on PINET

9. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference How about those Vax’s Still king of the hill (surprised?) PI-SMT support  Tag Configuration  PI-HealthCheck (version 2.12)

10. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference A good year making friends Interfacing Core technology The OSI way  our secret exposed: UniInt One program  VAX, UNIX, Windows  The only interface program

11. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference UniInt Configuration consistency  many copies of interface  many scan classes  logging consistency  data rate tags  outputs  pinet queing / exception support built-in

12. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI-OPC is also UniInt 75 pages of code Upgradeable interfaces run as NT service; buffering

13. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 1. Beckman LIMS on HP-UX 2. Event Logger on Intel NT3. Ulma 3D Hole Detector via TCP/IP on VMS 4. ModbusPlus on Intel NT 5. Landis & Gyr 8500 on VAX/VMS 6. Bailey Infi90 SEMAPI on Intel NT

14. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 7. Moore ICI on Intel NT 8. MXOpen on Intel NT 9. Relational Database interface on Intel NT and Alpha 10. Fisher-Rosemount CHIP on HP-UX 11. Intellution FIX DMACS on Intel NT 12. MAX Control Systems MAX 1000.

15. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 13. Bailey System 6 on Intel NT 14. Teledyne Vector SCADA; Intel NT 15. Bailey Infi 90 on Alpha NT 16. Chicago Dial Indicator Interface on Intel NT, OpenVms 17. Simens Teleperm-M/ME, CS275; NT 18. Fisher-Rosemount RNI on HP-UX

16. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 19. Yokogawa YGW (Gateway) Interface on Intel NT, Alpha NT, OpenVMS 20. Yokogawa ACG Interface on Intel NT, Alpha NT, OpenVMS 21. Bliss Interface on Intel NT 22. Yokogawa 2400 Datalogger on Intel NT 23. ABB Simcon PCAP on VAX OpenVms

17. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference 24. SOCCS on DUX 25. ABB 1190 on NT 26. Valmet OASyS on DUX

18. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Contractor partners Informetrics (David Sudikoff) Matrikon Rovisys Queue Systems Wayne Isaacs

19. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Technical Support “Those Guys do an amazing job” Dedicated support staff  Escalation team 250 calls per day

20. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Services Field service team - Seattle dispatched Service partners Training Product delivery

21. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference View from home Aquarium (300gal, saltwater reef) Aquacontroller  temp, pH, ORP, switch outputs Temperature, sunlight, moonlight, wave motion, calendar functions

22. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference View from the Sea Home computer

23. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference View from the Sea PI to PI Link

24. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference Let’s check the Aquarium

25. 1998 PI System Users’ Conference

26. It was a good Health Prosperity Enjoyment