Posts by David Rodriguez

Over the past ten years, businesses have invested considerable effort and resources into integrating data into PI systems. They have leveraged the superior contextualization capabilities of these systems for equipment (Element and Attribute), time (Event Frame), and material movement (Transfer). This has resulted in significant advancements in paperless operations and dashboard visualization. However, the desire…

The Asset Framework (AF) has been in use for over a decade and is widely used across various industries to contextualize data. One of its components, which has been present since the beginning but is often overlooked, is AF Transfers. In short, transfers are movements from one element to another, or more precisely, from one…

Open source software in the industrial space is having a moment. The full operational data stack – from data ingestion, storage, analysis, and visualization – has an increasing number of open source options. These open source projects have steadily become more capable in some key areas, namely performance, ease of integration, and user friendliness. For…