September 2024 Product Roundup: Analytics

Sept. 30, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric Data Analysis Software

The new Melsoft MaiLab software uses Melsoft’s Maisart AI technology to enable non-specialists to easily analyze and diagnose factory data. Through past manufacturing data, the software makes decisions akin to skilled workers removing the need to hire highly specialized operator personnel to save on costs while still maintaining high levels of productivity. MaiLab’s software design includes single-tool capability, enabling both offline analysis and real-time diagnostics, with direct feedback to the production site. Its integrated open concept, such as the Python programming language or web-based environment, ensures the software’s longevity.

Control Station Control Loop Analytics

Control Station has expanded its client services capabilities with the rollout of Digital Lifecycle Solutions (DLS). The new DLS offerings build upon application services previously delivered to licensees of the PlantESP solution. Developed to align with different stages of a manufacturer’s operational journey, the enhanced services leverage PlantESP’s comprehensive PID control loop analytics to proactively analyze asset performance on a plant- or an enterprise-wide basis, apply advanced forensic and state-based analytics, and capitalize on intelligence captured by other on-premises and cloud-based computing and visualization platforms. In collaboration with assigned project champions, the DLS offerings guide customers through three lifecycle phases: Identify, Implement, and Maintain. Each phase incorporates increasingly sophisticated methods of analysis and recommendations for corrective action.

eSimulation Remote Performance Management Platform

eSimulation has released its Remote Performance Management (RPM) platform for proactive data gathering. This platform enables collection and access to historical, real-time and predictive data in the cloud to keep critical operations running and gain access to business insights. Users can create custom reports and views to monitor processes and identify issues quickly, as well as compare downtime events and batch datasets to identify patterns and replicate best practices. Web-based reporting enables operations staff to determine how best to adjust process operations, in different weather and temperature conditions, under different operational scenarios, to maximize uptime and profitability. Users can also monitor the performance of industrial process control loops, detect and identify under-performing loops, and diagnose control loop problems. Secure user authentication is provided via encrypted PRM user credentials or the corporate Active Directory.

HMS Industrial Networks Network Diagnostics

The Atlas2 Plus actively collects data from all devices connected to a network, displaying information such as device name, IP address, MAC address, communication speed, packet loss and connected port. When issues like high packet loss or device failure arise, the Atlas2 Plus triggers an alarm and guides users to identify the root cause, providing the best path for repair to avoid a full network shutdown. The Atlas2 Plus’s interface enables users to gain immediate insights into their network’s health with a single comprehensive overview. The improved usability ensures that even non-technical staff can quickly understand issues and act upon the data. 

Seeq Enterprise Monitoring

Seeq Vantage is Seeq’s first industrial enterprise monitoring app that provides a comprehensive, automated view into operational performance—past and present. Through the Seeq Vantage app, industrial organizations can tailor, deploy and automate enterprise-level use cases, such as asset and process monitoring, condition-based maintenance, reliability and downtime tracking and more. Coupled with the Seeq Industrial Analytics and AI Suite, users can create an integrated ecosystem to capture, analyze, aggregate, monitor, triage, investigate and document insights and actions at the local and enterprise level. 

Skkynet Data Hub Security

The latest release of Cogent DataHub software from Skkynet provides a new security model for real-time access to process data. Now with LDAP and TOTP (time-based one-time passwords) support and a new data diode mode, the software makes secure, outbound connections through firewalls, isolating OT networks, supporting DMZ architectures and making secure cloud connections. With this release users can configure security accounts from a local Windows machine or an external LDAP server, as well as authenticate using TOTP. Users can differentiate user access permissions by connection source and create custom roles and permission sets.