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
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for:
- Company/refinery-wide views/dashboards covering a range of data sources with drill-down ability
- Event monitoring and event analysis with ContextHub views
- Online monitors for notification of significant event with included links to get an overview of the supporting data with views and dashboards
Expected improvements/enhancements:
- Expansion of the list of supported functions for calculations
- Expansion of the number of dependent levels for calculations
- Auto-saving on applications
- Documentation of work and Subject Matter Expert knowledge on what applications do and why
