Powerful Historian with an integrated reporting and analysis tool

CitectHistorian helps your plant and IT personnel to optimise operational efficiency by providing a powerful, enterprise-wide reporting tool that collects, historises and delivers meaningful reporting data from multiple, disparate systems.

CitectHistorian enables you to make more effective decisions to optimise operational performance.

CitectHistorian enables you to accurately store data for long-term reporting whilst also giving you the option of visualising and accessing the information through the CitectHistorian portal, MS Excel or Reporting Services.

Features at a glance:

• 100% pure Microsoft SQL Server historian
• Powerful, easy-to-use reporting tools
• Intuitive visualisation tool, Process Analyst, to easily view and analyse plant processes on a single, integrated display
• Out-of-the-box sample reports, such as alarm management reports based on EEMUA 191 guidelines, and energy reports
• Open technology bridges plant-to-business divide
• Integrates with business applications and MS Office
• Online data compression for instant recall and maximum data retention
• Compare time or variable-grouped queries with trend information from historic records

Performance at a glance:

• Visualise data from multiple SCADA systems in the web browser
• Analyse this data with MS Excel
• Analyse and understand the cause of process upsets and compare alarm and trend data to improve efficiency via intuitive visualisation tool
• Make sense of large volumes of tag-based data with easy-to-use reporting tools
• Transfer data between your control systems and MS SQL or Oracle databases
• Historise all control system data into MS SQL Server 2005
• Report using industry standard reporting tools

Connect your production and business systems

With an easy-to-use interface and its active data transfers, CitectHistorian can push data from the control systems up to the business systems. That way, process evaluation and decision making by senior management are fed with the right levels of plant detail and, best of all, in a surprisingly accessible and business-focused form.

Fast ROI

• Low risk
• Low capital investment
• Open system solution
• Easy to configure and maintain. It leverages familiar, supported Microsoft technologies...

Optimise operational performance

CitectHistorian offers:

• Powerful performance with high data integrity
• Fast active data transfer rates
• Unrivalled functionality so that you get the data you want, in the format you want, when you want it.

CitectHistorian is a key tool in helping you optimise operational performance.

• Visualise and prioritise process improvements (such as production times)
• Reduce errors and waste and increase quality
• Improve your return on assets and profit margins
  

Information any time, anywhere: Maximise production efficiency

CitectHistorian’s web client makes data available to the right people anywhere and any time. It provides maintenance engineers with a fast way to analyse trend and event data. The web client delivers a flexible means for them to compare real-time and historical data in one interface.

Microsoft Excel client provides engineers and operation managers with all the calculation tools they need to model and analyse production. It brings real-time data into these models to increase their understanding of the process and monitor it for change.

"CitectHistorian builds upon Microsoft's three Plant Floor Visibility pillars of: Integration, Analytics and Collaboration which our manufacturing customers are asking for. It enables any enterprise user to have insight into their plant's performance from the familiar user environments of Microsoft Outlook and Office 2007, because historian data is managed in real-time by Microsoft SQL Server 2005." - Chris Colyer, World Wide Director of Plant Operations Strategy for Microsoft