When production data is available but unusable

Challenge: ”We have a lot of production data – but no common truth.”

Many industrial companies collect large amounts of production data – yet it is difficult to get a common, reliable picture of how production is performing. Different systems show different figures, analyses take a long time, and discussions often get stuck on which data is correct.

In complex production environments, this quickly becomes an obstacle to both daily management and long-term improvement efforts.

Here we explain why this happens when you lack a common source of truth – and how AVEVA™ PI System can provide you with a stable, real-time platform where data is structured, reliable, and usable throughout your business.

Large industrial companies collect data from automation systems, MES systems, laboratories, energy measurement systems, maintenance systems, and much more. But the data is often scattered, structured in different ways, and difficult to connect.

For businesses with complex processes, high availability requirements, and intense pressure to improve, this becomes a real obstacle. To work in a data-driven way, you need a common, real-time platform that can handle complexity and provide a stable data foundation for the entire organization.

AVEVA PI System is developed for just this purpose. As an AVEVA Endorsed System Integrator, we at Roima help you build data platforms that are both technically robust and business critical.

A common problem in fragmented system environments is that different systems show different figures for the same event.

Availability, production rates, or energy consumption may differ depending on which system you look at. The result is uncertainty – and meetings where the discussion is more about ”which number is correct” than why the results look the way they do.

When data is not perceived as reliable, the willingness to use it in management also decreases. This creates barriers to data-driven work and slows down improvement efforts more than necessary.

Collecting large amounts of data points is not enough to generate insights. The data must be put into the right context.

It is only when signals are linked to the real context of the process that they become useful. A temperature, a flow, or a vibration signal in itself says very little. To create value, it needs to be linked to:

• which equipment is running
• which batch, product, or order is in progress
• which process step or phase you are in
• relevant quality and operating parameters

Without this, analyses become fragmented, and troubleshooting becomes dependent on manual interpretation – something that takes time and increases the risk of incorrect conclusions.

AVEVA PI System is built to be the central real-time data platform in industrial environments. The system collects data from many sources and organizes it according to the plant’s actual structure.

By modeling equipment, processes, and production structures, a digital representation of the business is created, with data automatically linked to the right object and event. This means that visualizations, analyses, and reports are based on the same data model and thus provide the same answers – regardless of who is looking at them.

This is how you create a single source of truth.

When production data is structured in a common platform, both operational teams and analysts can work more systematically.

Operators can follow trends and deviations in near real time, while improvement teams can analyze larger amounts of historical data to identify patterns.

The same data foundation can be used for daily management, improvement work, management reporting, and benchmarking between factories.

You get a consistent picture of how the business is performing – regardless of level.

Industrial companies often have stringent requirements for information security and availability, which means production data must be managed locally. At the same time, there is a need to analyze data at the group level.

With the AVEVA PI System, data can be managed on-premises to ensure stable operation, while selected data is shared with cloud-based platforms for advanced analysis and visualization – for example, via AVEVA CONNECT.

This gives you both local operational reliability and global insight, without compromising on security.

In the process industry and life sciences, processes are often continuous or batch-based and controlled by many interacting parameters. Small variations in flow, pressure, temperature, or raw material quality can have a major impact.

To be able to work proactively with optimization, you need:

• high-resolution historical data
• a clear link between signals and process phases
• analysis capabilities over time
• a stable platform for continuous improvement

PI System is built for precisely these needs – and can withstand environments where both data volume and speed are high.

At Roima, we help you not only collect data, but also structure it so that it reflects how your production works. This means that the data models are based on processes and working methods, not just technical signals.

By combining expertise in automation, MES, analysis, and IT/OT architecture, we build data platforms that make production data useful in both everyday operations and strategic decisions.

The focus is always on long-term solutions that are technically, organizationally, and operationally sustainable.

When production data is available but cannot be used, the business loses momentum – both in operations and in improvement work. With AVEVA PI System, you can create a common real-time platform that provides data with structure, context, and reliability.

At Roima, we help you build a data platform that lasts over time and supports operations, analysis, and development.

Want to see how this works in practice? Watch our on-demand demo of AVEVA PI System.