Historians embedded in industrial units

摘要

Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof.

主权项

1. An industrial automation system, comprising:
a memory that stores at least one computer-executable component; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the at least one computer-executable component, the at least one computer-executable component, comprising:
a historian configured to be physically integrated and uniquely associated with a manufactured product, wherein the historian is further configured to store data pertinent to manufacture of the product, and the historian further comprises a locator component configured to:locate at least one other historian associated with the manufacture of the product, the at least one other historian storing data pertinent to the manufacture of the product; andretrieve the data from the other historian for storage on the historian to facilitate a pooling of data pertinent to the manufacture of the product at the historian; anda visualization component, associated with the historian, configured to present the data at a plurality of granularity levels.