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What is the best Process Data Graphics Suite?

What is the best Process Data Graphics Suite?

What is the best Process Data Graphics Suite?

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Currently our chemical facility does not have a standard process data graphics suite. Our process data historian looks like it is going to need to be upgraded for windows 7 reasons (switching from XP on plant PC's).

We currently don't have a standard process data graphics suite on sight. One area uses PARCview, one area uses a custom VB application they built that accesses historian data, and one area only uses an excel plugin to scrape by.

In my background in refining I've used Process book (PI) and found it to be great once everything was configured. Easy to build custom pages, trend multiple data points, set conditional graphics up, etc...

Honeywell is pushing UPS (their advanced desktop graphics suite) to go along with the historian upgrade. Would be nice to deal with one company for data access support.

PARCview is still a viable option across the facility and has a lot of neat statistical options.

Does anyone have a good review comparison break down between the different products (or potentially other similar products)? If anyone has experience with multiple process graphics suites, I would appreciate some insights into the pros and cons of each, including ease of use and ability to map to multiple databases (lab database, custom user input databases).

Our facility hasn't put much emphasis into process data IT infrastructure, but I think that may change soon.

Thanks

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