In the case of process historians and other data storage devices, as they’ve migrated from boxes onto faster microprocessors and fully software-based formats, they’ve also accelerated and diversified until it seems almost any component or chunk of code can be set to gather and archive data beyond the initial production cycle of its application. This has generated oceans of data, of course, until the new challenge is extracting and analyzing the right information that can enable better decisions—and turnaround data and decisions fast enough that they basically become part of the control loop.
Modern data historians provide for optimization, savings