Process Historians Moving Rapidly Toward CPAS Vision

ARC Advisory Group has released a new report, "Process Historians Moving Rapidly Toward CPAS Vision".  The report examines the industry need and desire to move toward a Collaborative Process Automation System as the core of their manufacturing systems: "They want to be able to harvest any relevant information assets without boundaries in real time and work collaboratively with business counterparts and colleagues at their sites and in other plants using a comprehensive, state-of-the-art toolset and a common understanding."

The CPAS represents more than a simple data historian. It must also provide the ability to aggregate data from different data sources and report to corporate stakeholders in useful fashion, "to provide process data analysis; process graphics; trending reporting; data entry, and display for applications such as alarm and event management, asset performance...KPI dashboards."

The CPAS requires an analytical and visualization component. Many systems today combine NWA Focus EMI® with their historians and other process databases to achieve this result.