TrendMiner Experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use TrendMiner as a process monitoring and troubleshooting tool for all of our refineries. We have TrendMiner dashboards to provide overviews of our operations with drill-downs for additional details. Our TrendMiner implementation includes connections to several data historians and SQL Server databased. Consequently, TrendMiner is well suited to be the primary data analysis and trending tool those with licenses use
Pros
- Trending
- Event searches and data filtering
- Event Analytics
- Scatter plotting with regressions
Cons
- Dashboarding (better use of space)
- Shared folder / shared applications management
- Handling of data with bad status
Return on Investment
- Reduces data gathering time from our Subject Matter Experts
- Reduces the use of Excel for data extraction and analysis
- Improves our ability to easily filter data based on searches
- Provides us with corporate-wide dashboards
Usability
Alternatives Considered
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Other Software Used
OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI
