Plant Historians

Plant Historians are quickly becoming a minimum standard for any self-respecting manufacturing facility that employs process controls. Historian technology has a presence in virtually every industrial manufacturing sector.

Historians can acquire plant or process data from virtually any type of automated control system or other source. Historians can store an almost limitless amount of historical data, at its original resolution, virtually forever.

Historians are industry proven technologies that can acquire, store, and display process data, helping enterprises to turn data into information. Today's historians offer flexibility that makes it easy to configure them for any industry or function. They can collect and store large volumes of process data and make it available for analysis and reporting by client users, business systems, and production applications.

A historian's powerful processing tools transform raw data into useful information. User-definable interactive displays provide information visibility wherever it is needed, including support for standard Internet browsers.

Historian's can collect and format Plant Floor IT data for use in other systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Data can be collected about anything from raw materials to end products. This allows you to plan production and maintenance schedules and correlate product quality to real costs. Historians often act as a Plant Floor information management system that transforms process data into meaningful information, making it accessible for real-time decision making. By improving the flow of data plant-wide, historians help companies enhance productivity, increase business flexibility, and streamline operations. With a historian, personnel throughout the enterprise gain unprecedented access to real-time information, helping them to make better business decisions.

The MIT Group has invested and continues to invest in this exciting Plant Floor IT market segment. If you think a historian might be right for you please give us a call. We’ll help determine your requirements and the suitability of a historian, as well as install and configure your historian to address your most pressing Plant Floor Information needs!

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