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The document outlines best practices for implementing asset analytics, emphasizing the importance of initial design principles, planning, and understanding data density and flow. It discusses tradeoffs between streaming and ad-hoc analytics, the necessity of using templates for consistency, and the need for effective change management. Additionally, it highlights common bottlenecks to avoid and the significance of governance in maintaining a robust analytics environment.

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2020_OSISoft_Slide_Best Practices when Implementing Asset Analytics

The document outlines best practices for implementing asset analytics, emphasizing the importance of initial design principles, planning, and understanding data density and flow. It discusses tradeoffs between streaming and ad-hoc analytics, the necessity of using templates for consistency, and the need for effective change management. Additionally, it highlights common bottlenecks to avoid and the significance of governance in maintaining a robust analytics environment.

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Best Practices when Implementing

Asset Analytics
Stephen Kwan

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Agenda

• Initial design principles


• Best practices
• Planning
• Tradeoffs – what to do, what not to do
• Focus areas
• Avoiding problems
• Summary

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Initial Design Principles

• Leverage AF for context and event capture


• Easy to use
• Performance Equation function signature
• High performance
• 1 Analysis Service per 1 AF Server
• Auto backfills for restarts

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Basic Concept

Inputs Outputs

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Workflow

Configure Test Schedule

Backfill/Recalculate

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PI Analysis Service
PI Analysis Service
1 Load analysis
configuration
Calculation Engine
AF
Server 2
Data
Cache Analysis
A

B
…

Data
Archive 4 Read from 3
Read from
data source data cache

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Design Tradeoffs

Optimized for Not suitable for


• Streaming analytics use case • Executing queries across really
• Prioritize real-time calculations large number of attributes
over backfills/recalculations • Extracting large amounts of
• Leverage Data Cache time series data
• Easy configuration • Ad-hoc calculations

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Use cases: Streaming vs. Adhoc

Adhoc investigation and Online, scheduled,


analytics development streaming analytics

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Know your
Data Density Understand
Process Sensible
and Data Flow –
Governance Algorithms
Bottlenecks
Data Rate

Good Planning

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Change Management

• Consider setting up Dev or Test environment


• Allows for experimentation while developing
calculations
• Many engineers could be writing calculations
• Frequent changes can cause churn for the production
system
• Easier to isolate issues

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Best Practices: Use Templates
• Provide manageability, consistency and governance
• Use templates for any repetitive work or for future
extensions.
• A modification to the template is applied to all
analyses from that template.
• Searching and filtering in UI is also easier with
templates.
• Higher performance.
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Best Practices: Configuration
• Retain tribal knowledge
• Expressions should be written for readability
• Add comments as appropriate
• Use PI Points for outputs – Higher efficiency
and stores history
• Exit when you’re done – don’t continue to run
calculations
• Use Categories for filtering
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Understand the Impact of your Analyses
• Some functions such as summary functions
(TagAvg etc.) might require a lot of data to perform
a calculation on the client side
• Use a smaller range or evaluating less often if the range
is larger
• Hit the cache and not I/O to Data Archive
• Do not trigger faster than evaluation rate
• Watch out for dependent analyses
• Plan for out of order data – recalculation
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Avoid Common Bottlenecks

• Inputs from slow data


references, e.g. Table Lookup
• Inputs requiring round trip to
Data Archive (I/O bound)
• Too many analyses triggering at
the same time
• Sudden slug of triggering inputs
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High Availability

• PI Analysis Service supports failover using


Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
• Use PI Buffer Subsystem for writing PI Point
outputs

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Lastly

• Nothing scales forever


• Use multiple systems if needed
• Optimizing single system has limitations
• Hard to recover from a perturbation

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Summary
• Governance – Test + production system
• Sensible data density and data rate
• Streaming vs. adhoc calculations
• Only calculate what’s needed
• Avoid round trips to Data Archive for inputs
• Highly tuned system may be susceptible to
small perturbations

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How We Built An Automated
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(ARTEMIS) based on Pi Asset Framework

See the Light, Easy Wins to


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Treatment Plant Experience

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Communicate with OSIsoft Product Managers

https://feedback.osisoft.com
If it is not shared on the feedback portal, it didn’t happen!

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• Stephen Kwan
• [email protected]
• Product Manager
• OSIsoft, LLC

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