Data Management
FactoryTalk Historian Classic
FactoryTalk® Historian Classic helps manufacturers — of all types and sizes — to increase quality, reduce waste, and better control manufacturing processes. With FactoryTalk Historian Classic, you can harness the vast volume of data produced in the control systems that run your plant. FactoryTalk Historian Classic provides a reliable and easy-to-configure data collection and analysis solution that ensures the right people can see the information they need to make critical business decisions.
FactoryTalk Historian Classic can connect to any control system or human-machine interface (HMI) software and collect data at high speed, in real time, and at full resolution. Built-in Web reporting capabilities and analysis tools expose this data to operators, supervisors, quality managers, and personnel outside the plant.
Features
FactoryTalk Historian Classic helps you turn your production data into actionable information that allows for reliable and configurable data collection and analysis. FactoryTalk Historian Classic offers:
- Complete system for time-series data collection
- Easy, flexible, scalable configuration
- Compatibility with any PLC or HMI using OPC standards
- Reliable, 24/7 data collection
- Data storage in an efficient, usable form
- Built-in HTML report writer
- Access to all reports with a Web browser
- Customizable and extendable architecture
- Dynamic modification of data collection parameters
- Excel Add-in that allows you to retrieve data directly from Microsoft® Excel
- Lossless data compression for more efficient data storage
- Sophisticated data collection and triggering options
- Standard and custom data calculators
- Support for Coordinated Universal Time
- Reports on data from external sources
- Support for Microsoft® SQL Server and Oracle® databases
Benefits
- Increase quality by identifying process variability and its causes
- Improve processes through the ability to analyze complex process data easily
- Reduce variability by verifying production parameters versus targets or norms
- Respond to information requests from customers or regulators more easily through the maintenance of an accessible on-line record
- Decrease overhead costs by saving time in collecting data and preparing reports