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What No Industry Standard Asset Templates?

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Seems like having standardized templates for industry standard assets would be a really valuable thing.  PI Customers would not have to start from scratch, ISV partners would be able to better leverage AF consistently, SI's could focus on higher value and more people would understand PI System data to get more value from it.  Not to mention the vale of common calculations and Event Frames.  OSIsoft has created some starter, with little uptake.  So why has it been slow to happen?  Even in our most progressive industries it seems challenging. Customers seem interested, but none is sharing or collaborating.

 

Should we look to other standards and adopt what they have done?  Looking deeper into Mimosa, which has been around for a long time, but their traction is not that great yet.  MIMOSA | An Operations and Maintenance Information Open System Alliance  Are there others who have better adoption?

 

Some of our customers are asking their vendors to supply AF templates with the equipment they purchase.  This is an interesting idea, which allows the OEM and customers to be on the same page (digitally).  Would this expedite services and improve new product introductions?

 

Is this something customers feel is part of their operational IP?

 

It seems like there is something fundamentally missing.  Does anyone have any theories on this?

  • Matt,

    It is interesting you pose this question.  We already have a complete set of templates and associated configuration for a wide variety of assets with more coming all of the time.  Our Process Plugins have been around since AF 2.0 or since 2008 and we are ready to put them in place for anyone.  We will have a booth at PI World so please stop by and take a look.

     

    For example if you have a bunch of similar pumps or turbines you can literally copy and paste the configurations and then do a little bit of work aligning tags and tables and you are good to go.

     

    Joe Devine

  • Hi Matt, I'm new to the community and AF but I've seen this behavior in other domains.  As a manager of a large CAE organization our ran similar simulations over many times during product development.  Analysts in a hurry to generate the solution didn't think about how many times they, or someone else on their team, would have to repeat the study.

     

    The benefits, however, are many:

    • Knowledge capture and reuse of a process - often a validated, best practice
    • Reduction of errors
    • Reduction in time
    • Ability to incorporate into larger automation scripts

     

    Doing this usually takes more time than just doing the analysis once, so the payoff is in the second or third iteration.  As humans, we're wired for short-term gratification and so are many program managers.  But we get to the future faster by using long-term thinking.