As an energy services company, Coriance distributes hot water to cities and municipalities across France. Coriance has 30 heating networks spread over multiple substations and its equipment consists of gas boilers, cogeneration engines and more. Unfortunately, its legacy control systems provided only scattered, poor-quality operational data, preventing Coriance from understanding its asset performance and making preventive adjustments. Not only that, engineers relied on Excel reporting, which was cumbersome and complex. All of these hurdles made it impossible to understand energy consumption, optimize power production, and manage meter data from one centralized location. With the help from OSIsoft’s partner Accenture, Coriance turned to the PI System™ to collect, standardize, validate data, and gain real-time operational insights. Through a unique configuration, the company deployed the PI System in the cloud, giving its engineers access to a flexible solution that today is available anytime and anywhere.
Year: 2019

An increasing number of asset owners rely on data-driven aftermarket services. While service providers have ample expertise, they lack access to the real-time customer data that is needed for offering timely advice and making smart decisions. Connected Services enables service providers to use OSIsoft’s PI System™, a real-time data infrastructure, to collect customer data from many different sources and store it in a central location where experts can visualize, analyze and share data.
Year: 2015

Across all industries, technical domain experts are retiring and being replaced by less experienced workers. Industrial machines – many of which incorporate embedded connectivity or sensitive intellectual property - are becoming more complex, and the number of machine and sensor-based data sources is constantly growing. As a result, industries are relying more and more on outsourced expertise to manage asset health, process optimization, and quality control. In today’s global and competitive marketplace, service providers differentiate their value to their customers by streamlining their cost of service, improving their recommendations, and reducing time-to-solution. Growing their businesses requires that service providers maintain and update intellectual property, optimize staff and adopt appropriate cost structures to maximize market penetration. This paper discusses the advantages of adopting a Connected Services framework to transform the business value of aftermarket services.
Year: 2015

In a series of explorations pertaining to the use of the PI System™ and various types of "NoSQL" type solutions, great emphasis was placed upon the implementation and scope of the target problem space. Specific attention was placed on producing better quality data so that validated, trustworthy data was produced from a single, reliable infrastructure. This helped maximize the reusability of the effort involved in delivering trustworthy, instantly usable, operational data in context. Because of the similarities of certain elements of the PI System to certain NoSQL technology types, the qualities that differentiate the results of an implementation will substantially rely upon dividing the tasks of maintaining a rich, durable "system of record" and an agile analysis platform. The long term total cost of ownership involved in solving the initial problem, maintaining the solution, and solving new use cases as they arise in an "infrastructure-oriented" (rather than point-solution) manner will guide architecture choices as these implementations cross operational and business boundaries.
Year: 2014

Business analytics, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies will transform virtually every aspect of the economy in the coming decades. One of the biggest stumbling blocks, however, remains capturing, organizing and delivering the vast amounts of data from sensors, industrial equipment, power supplies and other operational technologies (OT) in a timely fashion to achieve genuine, actionable insights for information technology (IT). Too often, this data—the raw material of business analytics—remains landlocked in disparate systems and getting it out requires inordinate amounts of time and money. OSIsoft brings OT and IT together through its PI System and PI Integrator technology. The PI System captures, cleanses, augments, and shapes OT data from thousands of disparate systems, often using hundreds of connectors, and then transmits analytics-ready data in a coherent fashion to IT systems. By combining the PI System with Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, R Services, Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence (Azure ML), companies can dramatically accelerate their digital transformation and IoT strategies.
Year: 2016