A cost management software platform uses innovative, patent protected technologies, and is capable of using design information driven off of MCAD geometry.
The aPriori cost management platform uses innovative, patent protected technologies, and is capable of using design information driven off of MCAD geometry. Additionally the ability to model production facilities (including machine capabilities, raw materials, and facility cost structure) and the specific cost accounting methodologies, accurate predictive, allow 'forward looking' real time cost estimates. The firm anticipates huge staff growth for the remainder of 2006.

The firm is presently looking to add Business Consultants.

A business consultant (BC) is a key member in an implementation team that delivers the aPriori cost management platform to a customer and assists the customer, driving quantifiable value in their organization.

BCs are responsible for data gathering, training, configuring the solution, and helping drive system adoption.

A key component of solution configuration is building virtual production environments (VPEs), which are models of a customer's manufacturing facilities.

These VPEs allow customers to assess, control, and reduce their product costs from the begi! nning o f and throughout product development cycles.

Implementations are typically short-term engagements lasting twelve weeks and require a combination of working at the customer facility and at aPriori's Concord office.

40 to 60% travel is required.

Additionally, BCs may help during the sales process in the delivery of aPriori strategic value assessments (aSVAs), which allow prospects to confirm the financial and strategic value that aPriori can bring them prior to engaging in a full solution rollout.

Primary responsibilities are as follows.

* Gathers factory and accounting data required to configure the solution and build customer VPEs.

Educates customer on data requirements, helps customer project champion and project manager identify data providers, provides data gathering methodology and templates to customer, and supports the process.

* Models the customer's internal manufacturing facilities and those of its suppliers in aPriori.

* Trains customer users and administrators on the use of aPriori.

* Drives integration requirements with systems and processes.

* Develops a maintenance plan with customer to ensure data and solution are kept up-to-date.

* Advocates for additional requirements that are necessary or helpful for customers to successfully use and get benefit from aPriori, and works with product management to influence future releases.

* Works with customer to define how aPriori will fit into their costing process.

* Provides support to users to help drive use, find cost reductions in product designs, and overall adoption.

* Supports developing the results story to demonstrate solution ROI.

Required background is as follows.

* 5+ years experience in design engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, cost modeling, or consulting within these disciplines.

* BS or better in mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering or a closely related field.

* The ideal candidate would thrive in an environment where they have the opportunity to join a company on the ground floor and be part of the core team to drive success with early customers and refine our implementation approach and tools.

* Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Must be comfortable communicating to groups and working with individuals and teams to extract the required data to drive a project's success.

* Must be results-driven, have a positive attitude and be a team player.

The role will require strong organization skills and the ability to balance multiple activities.

* Demonstrated ability to work and communicate with varying levels and multiple functions (i e, accounting, purchasing, manufacturing, engineering, management) within a customer organization.

* Experience with Pro/ENGINEER, previous experience at successful start-up companies, and experience in managerial or cost accounting are highly preferred.

aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.

aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to 'cost-critical' decision information, and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business 'offensive'.

aPriori's patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages.

A cost designer tool for parts, process and assembly helps produce reliable estimates of manufacturing, providing design and producibility guidance to achieve the most affordable designs possible.
Galorath, the leading provider of advanced modeling tools for project estimation, planning and project control, has announced the release of SEER-DFM Version 5.2, a cost designer tool for parts, process and assembly. It allows design engineers to produce reliable estimates of manufacturing, providing design and producibility guidance to achieve the most efficient and affordable designs possible. Version 5.2 includes new capabilities for estimating and analysing manufacturing costs for state-of-practice and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.

Two of the new manufacturing processes contained in 5.2 were developed in partnership with Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Sector: a detailed harness assembly model that provides detailed input variables addressing all cable and harness manufacturing scenarios; and a tube fabrication, welding and processing model providing detailed estimation and analysis for singular tubes, complex multi-tube assemblies and manifolds.

'The new processes included in SEER-DFM 5.2 demonstrate Galorath's ability to effectively partner key customers to deliver an industry-based, robust and useful cost estimating system that meets the user's needs,' said Carl Dalton, managing director of Galorath International.

'By extending SEER-DFM's capabilities into new process areas and capabilities such as non-destructive testing, part marking and packaging, SEER increases the ability to accurately forecast a product's ultimate cost and offers users greater insight into producibility implications based upon their design criteria and decisions.' Other enhancements to the SEER-DFM modules include the following.

* Tooling cost estimates can be defined in greater detail, including estimates for tool design and fabrication.

* The inspection and rework models now include non-destructive testing (NDT) and the option to enter a company's own inspection and rework percentages.

* Modules for part marking and packaging enable a complete picture of end-to-end processes to be included in cost estimates.

* Labour rate inputs have been improved to include greater visibility into overheads and integrate with the SEER-Ratemaker model.

Version 5.2 also provides an improved automation interface to facilitate integration with other engineering and analysis tools, including FIPER from Engineous Software and SolidWorks from SolidWorks Corporation.

* About Galorath - for more than 25 years, engineers, project managers and cost estimators throughout the world have turned to Galorath for the industry's most comprehensive set of decision-support and process management tools.

Combined with extensive consulting and support services, Galorath's SEER estimation and analysis tools derive cost, schedule and staffing estimates by assessing the interaction and impact of product, organisational and operational variables.

This parametric methodology, coupled with the industry's most comprehensive knowledge bases, creates a rapid and powerful view of the critical factors driving program decisions and success from early concepts through upgrade and maintenance phases.

Galorath Incorporated is headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA.

The international headquarters, Galorath International, is located in Farnham, Surrey, UK.

Latest version of a cost designer tool for parts, process and assembly increases the ability to accurately forecast a product's ultimate cost and offers greater insight into producibility.
Galorath, the leading provider of advanced modeling tools for project estimation, planning and project control, has announced the release of SEER-DFM Version 5.2, a cost designer tool for parts, process and assembly. It allows design engineers to produce reliable estimates of manufacturing, providing design and producibility guidance to achieve the most efficient and affordable designs possible. Version 5.2 includes new capabilities for estimating and analysing manufacturing costs for state-of-practice and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.

Two of the new manufacturing processes contained in 5.2 were developed in partnership with Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Sector: a detailed harness assembly model that provides detailed input variables addressing all cable and harness manufacturing scenarios; and a tube fabrication, welding and processing model providing detailed estimation and analysis for singular tubes, complex multi-tube assemblies and manifolds.

'The new processes included in SEER-DFM 5.2 demonstrate Galorath's ability to effectively partner key customers to deliver an industry-based, robust and useful cost estimating system that meets the user's needs,' said Carl Dalton, managing director of Galorath International.

'By extending SEER-DFM's capabilities into new process areas and capabilities such as non-destructive testing, part marking and packaging, SEER increases the ability to accurately forecast a product's ultimate cost and offers users greater insight into producibility implications based upon their design criteria and decisions.' Other enhancements to the SEER-DFM modules include the following.

* Tooling cost estimates can be defined in greater detail, including estimates for tool design and fabrication.

* The inspection and rework models now include non-destructive testing (NDT) and the option to enter a company's own inspection and rework percentages.

* Modules for part marking and packaging enable a complete picture of end-to-end processes to be included in cost estimates.

* Labour rate inputs have been improved to include greater visibility into overheads and integrate with the SEER-Ratemaker model.

Version 5.2 also provides an improved automation interface to facilitate integration with other engineering and analysis tools, including FIPER from Engineous Software and SolidWorks from SolidWorks Corporation.

* About Galorath - for more than 25 years, engineers, project managers and cost estimators throughout the world have turned to Galorath for the industry's most comprehensive set of decision-support and process management tools.

Combined with extensive consulting and support services, Galorath's SEER estimation and analysis tools derive cost, schedule and staffing estimates by assessing the interaction and impact of product, organisational and operational variables.

This parametric methodology, coupled with the industry's most comprehensive knowledge bases, creates a rapid and powerful view of the critical factors driving program decisions and success from early concepts through upgrade and maintenance phases.

Galorath Incorporated is headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA.

In most organizations product cost estimates are developed by specialized organizations, but independently of design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions - the result is 'cost knowledge vacuum'.
According to Frank Azzolino, president and CEO of aPriori Technologies, 'There are a number of reasons why discrete manufacturers have been forced to take a 'rear view' look at product costs - evaluating and allocating product costs well after production was underway. In most organizations product cost estimates are developed by specialized organizations in cost engineering or VA/VE departments. In most cases, these cost estimates are created separately and independently of the people making the design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions.

This separation results in many decisions being made in a cost knowledge vacuum.

The impact of these decisions is typically not known for at least a full financial period after production is well underway.' Cost information in most organizations is fragmented throughout the enterprise.

Critical pieces of cost information are spread across independent silos within an organization in different functions like engineering, planning, manufacturing, sourcing, finance.

This situation typically results in estimates that do not include all relevant information required to make accurate and predictive product cost assessments.

Product cost estimates (especially early ones) are often based on historical information or very general heuristics (e g, weight) and are too inaccurate and lack statistical confidence for effective decision making.

Most cost estimating activity falls on a relatively small group of specialized people spending hours manually producing each estimate.

Since the demand for costing feedback cannot always be met, the opportunity to experiment with the cost impact of design, manufacturing, planning, sourcing, etc, alternatives is limited and can not be readily cost optimized.

Most cost estimates are static and are not continually updated when new design, manufacturing, planning, or sourcing information becomes available as the product progresses through its design-to-production-to-delivery lifecycle.

Out-of-date cost information can not be relied upon for downstream decision making.

Costing practices are not always standardized across the enterprise.

As more information is available, different costing practices and methods are used to re-cost items.

Unfortunately this makes it difficult to leverage previous estimating work and build traceability in product cost accrual.

Typically cost estimates are not managed through a product's development through production lifecycle.

Multiple cost estimates from different sources are created as different times during the process.

It becomes unclear which product cost estimate is current or valid.

Today's cost accounting methodologies begin with the financial statement for the prior closed financial period.

The costs in that period are then allocated across various product lines and processes which are then further allocated for each individual product.

These are by definition 'rear view' mirror product costs.

Since this cost information is typically difficult to obtain and not readily available during the NPI process, manufacturers are forced to take an after-the-fact, rearward view of the decisions that were made during their NPI process.

The aPriori cost management platform alleviates these problems a number of different ways.

By using innovative, patent protected technologies, aPriori is capable of using design information driven off of MCAD geometry, along with its ability to model production facilities (including machine capabilities, raw materials, and facility cost structure) and the specific cost accounting methodologies, accurate predictive, 'forward looking' real time cost estimates are created.

'aPriori has customers in a variety of industries including high technology, industrial equipment, automotive, and heavy machinery.

ICS Triplex has announced a remote input-output (I/O) interface unit for the Trusted Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) safety system.

ICS Triplex has announced a remote input-output (I/O) interface unit for the Trusted(tm) Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) safety system enabling any of the Expander chassis each with up to 480 I/O to be located 10km distant from the main equipment. Based on 250Mbaud high speed fibre-optic links, the remote I/O unit reduces safety system installation costs by eliminating the need for multiple I/O cables from remote located equipment. The remote I/O uses triplicated links to offer the same fault-tolerant operation as locally mounted Trusted(tm) units.

Unlike merely fail safe operation, fault-tolerant operation uses TMR architecture to identify and outvote processor mismatches to keep running safely in the presence of a fault, almost entirely eliminating spurious plant trips.

Trusted(tm) is certified by TÜV to DIN V VDE 0801 RC(AK)6 for Fire and Gas, Emergency Shut Down and similar highly critical applications where system failures cannot be contemplated.

ICS Triplex has announced a new, universal zone module that extends the functionality of its flagship Trusted TMR critical control and safety system to include Fire and Gas (FandG) applications.
ICS Triplex has announced a new, universal zone module that extends the functionality of its flagship Trusted(tm) TMR critical control and safety system to include Fire and Gas (F&G) applications. The 40 channel F&G Zone Module provides fault tolerant monitoring of any 0-24mA gas detector in addition to any low voltage digital signal with line monitoring such as flame, smoke or heat detectors and manual alarm callpoints. To give maximum flexibility, any or all of the 40 channels can be programmed as outputs, for example for extinguishant release or reset of fire and other alarm functions.

Channel status indication onICS Triplex has announced a new, universal zone module that extends the functionality of its flagship Trusted(tm) TMR critical control and safety system to include Fire and Gas (F&G) applications.

The 40 channel F&G Zone Module provides fault tolerant monitoring of any 0-24mA gas detector in addition to any low voltage digital signal with line monitoring such as flame, smoke or heat detectors and manual alarm callpoints.

To give maximum flexibility, any or all of the 40 channels can be programmed as outputs, for example for extinguishant release or reset of fire and other alarm functions.

Channel status indication on the module is provided by tri-colour channel by channel configurable LED's.

Because the function of each channel can be configured by the user to suit the required ratio between signal types, the new ZIM can be matched closely and cost effectively to each application.

To provide the outstanding flexibility required for F&G applications, the Zone Module has triplicated DSP's (Digital Signal Processors).

The DSP's are already used for testing and sequence of events recording SOE.

Further enhancements to this local processing capability will include voting of gas alarms and fire inputs as well as self contained local programs with all logic associated with a particular zone(s).

This will enable the module to provide complete field status to system displays without the need for a central processor.

Trusted(tm), ICS Triplex flagship product, is a state of the art Triple Modular Redundant critical control and safety system that provides unique levels of availability: First fault: fault tolerant Second fault: fault tolerant Third fault: fail safe.

the module is provided by tri-colour channel by channel configurable LED's.

Because the function of each channel can be configured by the user to suit the required ratio between signal types, the new ZIM can be matched closely and cost effectively to each application.

To provide the outstanding flexibility required for F&G applications, the Zone Module has triplicated DSP's (Digital Signal Processors).

The DSP's are already used for testing and sequence of events recording SOE.

Further enhancements to this local processing capability will include voting of gas alarms and fire inputs as well as self contained local programs with all logic associated with a particular zone(s).

This will enable the module to provide complete field status to system displays without the need for a central processor.

Trusted(tm), ICS Triplex flagship product, is a state of the art Triple Modular Redundant critical control and safety system that provides unique levels of availability: First fault: fault tolerant Second fault: fault tolerant Third fault: fail safe.

Safety control systems are now being delivered for Abu Dhabi's second largest gas gathering project, the Bab Gas Field
BP Amoco has placed a contract with ICS Triplex for a new Trusted(tm) Fire and Gas (F&G) system of over 1200 channels for the Magnus platform in the North Sea, and for associated installation and commissioning work. The Trusted(tm) system is certified by TÜV to the very demanding AK6 level to provide the highest standards of safety, but critically, the Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) triplicated architecturenote 1 also offers fault-tolerant operation to allow continuing safe operation of the platform even under system fault conditions. Under the fast track contract, ICS Triplex will deliver the hardware to site in early April 2000.

ICS Triplex will also supply, install and commission multiple fault-tolerant graphical man-machine interface (operator) stations that exchange information with the F&G system over dual redundant Ethernet using OPC (Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control).

As well as various graphical views of the platform F&G system, operators will be able to view time stamped events and Sequence of Event logs accurate to within 1mS, made possible by the very fast scan time of the Trusted(tm) equipment.

Another major factor in the choice of ICS Triplex was the very compact Trusted(tm) hardware that will make it possible to install the new system alongside the old in the restricted space available, and so avoid a shut down during the changeover process.

Note: Fault-tolerance - ICS Triplex TMR architecture, with its three parallel channels and automated voting, is not just fail safe, it is inherently fault tolerant.

In the presence of a fault, Trusted(tm) TMR uses the fact that two healthy channels agree to identify and ignore a faulty channel which can then be replaced without a shut down to maintain safe operation essentially indefinitely.

Engineers at Qilu, one of the largest polyethylene production sites in China, have upgraded their plant's safety system by installing an ICS Triplex 'Trusted' system
Engineers at Qilu, one of the largest polyethylene production sites in China, have upgraded their plant's safety system by installing an ICS Triplex 'Trusted' system, the only control system that could meet the demanding specification. The operators had calculated that to ensure safety the system had to be scanning every point in the plant at least every 100ms. Qilu had 800 input/outputs (i/o) to be monitored, including over 300 analogue inputs, each of which would take a conventional safety system a relatively long time to interrogate.

It soon became apparent that Trusted was the only system that could achieve the scan time compulsory requirement.

'We developed a new Central Processor Unit (CPU) for Trusted just two years ago, which has made it very much more powerful than equivalent systems,' says Antonio Invernizzi, of ICS Triplex's Milan office, which supplied the hardware for the project.

'Normally we use it with 40 channel i/o modules, but even with the 16 channel units that were specified for this project we were able to exceed the scanning specification.' Trusted is a Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) safety system, which is inherently fault tolerant.

It recognises faults and isolates them while maintaining the system's safety performance at 100 per cent.

Overall availability is therefore higher than with other systems, so that neither productivity nor safety are ever compromised.

Trusted has been certified by TÜV to DIN V VDE 0801 RC(AK)6, confirming its suitability for use in emergency shut-down, fire and gas and other critical control applications.

A key benefit of the of the Trusted TMR concept is its exceptional availability which translates to more plant up time and greater production combined with the highest levels of safety.

This is achieved by the fault tolerance of the TMR architecture that identifies and outvotes processor mismatches to keep running safely in the presence of a fault, almost entirely eliminating spurious plant trips.

Trusted employs a hardware implemented, fault tolerant (HIFT) voting system that cuts software complexity.

The main contractor for the project was Technip Italia and the systems integrator was a company called Program.

Both are based in Rome, and ICS delivered the £150,000 worth of hardware to them there.

ICS also provided IEC 1131 Toolset, the company's software for programming and maintenance.

This is installed in the system on a supervisory PC that also runs a graphics front end package called Panorama which presents real time and historic process data in an easy to understand way.

Invernizzi sums up: 'The Qilu plant has been up and running for just over a year, and the operators have noted the performance of the Trusted system.

there has been a step improvement of the safety record of the plant, with virtually no false alarms to disrupt normal running of the plant.'

BP Amoco has placed a contract with ICS Triplex for a new Trusted(tm) Fire and Gas (FandG) system of over 1200 channels for the Magnus platform in the North Sea
BP Amoco has placed a contract with ICS Triplex for a new Trusted(tm) Fire and Gas (F&G) system of over 1200 channels for the Magnus platform in the North Sea, and for associated installation and commissioning work. The Trusted(tm) system is certified by TÜV to the very demanding AK6 level to provide the highest standards of safety, but critically, the Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) triplicated architecturenote 1 also offers fault-tolerant operation to allow continuing safe operation of the platform even under system fault conditions. Under the fast track contract, ICS Triplex will deliver the hardware to site in early April 2000.

ICS Triplex will also supply, install and commission multiple fault-tolerant graphical man-machine interface (operator) stations that exchange information with the F&G system over dual redundant Ethernet using OPC (Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control).

As well as various graphical views of the platform F&G system, operators will be able to view time stamped events and Sequence of Event logs accurate to within 1mS, made possible by the very fast scan time of the Trusted(tm) equipment.

Another major factor in the choice of ICS Triplex was the very compact Trusted(tm) hardware that will make it possible to install the new system alongside the old in the restricted space available, and so avoid a shut down during the changeover process.

Note: Fault-tolerance - ICS Triplex TMR architecture, with its three parallel channels and automated voting, is not just fail safe, it is inherently fault tolerant.

In the presence of a fault, Trusted(tm) TMR uses the fact that two healthy channels agree to identify and ignore a faulty channel which can then be replaced without a shut down to maintain safe operation essentially indefinitely.

BP Amoco has placed a contract with ICS Triplex for a new Trusted(tm) Fire and Gas (F&G) system of over 1200 channels for the Magnus platform in the North Sea, and for associated installation and commissioning work.

The Trusted(tm) system is certified by TÜV to the very demanding AK6 level to provide the highest standards of safety, but critically, the Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) triplicated architecturenote 1 also offers fault-tolerant operation to allow continuing safe operation of the platform even under system fault conditions.

Under the fast track contract, ICS Triplex will deliver the hardware to site in early April 2000.

ICS Triplex will also supply, install and commission multiple fault-tolerant graphical man-machine interface (operator) stations that exchange information with the F&G system over dual redundant Ethernet using OPC (Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control).

As well as various graphical views of the platform F&G system, operators will be able to view time stamped events and Sequence of Event logs accurate to within 1mS, made possible by the very fast scan time of the Trusted(tm) equipment.

Another major factor in the choice of ICS Triplex was the very compact Trusted(tm) hardware that will make it possible to install the new system alongside the old in the restricted space available, and so avoid a shut down during the changeover process.

Note: Fault-tolerance - ICS Triplex TMR architecture, with its three parallel channels and automated voting, is not just fail safe, it is inherently fault tolerant.

In the presence of a fault, Trusted(tm) TMR uses the fact that two healthy channels agree to identify and ignore a faulty channel which can then be replaced without a shut down to maintain safe operation essentially indefinitely.

ICS Triplex and Fisher-Rosemount cooperated to demonstrate OPC (OLE for Process Control) in action at Interkama
ICS Triplex and Fisher-Rosemount cooperated to demonstrate OPC (OLE for Process Control) in action at Interkama. A demonstration of the ICS Triplex Trusted(tm) fault-tolerant TMR* safety system linked by OPC to a Fisher-Rosemount Delta V(tm) process automation system was shown on the Fisher-Rosemount stand F41/42 in hall 14, and attracted great interest. The OPC Server software resides on the system host network and makes the information in the Trusted(tm) fault-tolerant controller available to the OPC clients in Delta V or any other OPC compliant DCS or SCADA package.

OPC Client connections are made by simply dragging and dropping tag names from one system window to the other - what could be simpler! Physical connection is made by a single or dual-redundant Ethernet link with all redundancy management designed in.

*TMR - Triple Modular Redundant By creating an industry standard, truly open link into the Trusted(tm) System for DCS, Graphics, SCADA or similar applications, ICS Triplex has freed system designers from the straight jacket of a proprietary interface, or the complexity of intelligent MODBUS gateways, saving project costs and increasing system performance.

The Historian module extends the reporting, analysis and management capabilities of the RSBizWare foundation by providing a powerful set of tools to analyse a wide variety of time-series data.
Rockwell Automation, announces the launch of Rockwell Software's RSHistorian, one of several modules in Rockwell Software's RSBizWare family of extendable applications. The Historian module extends the reporting, analysis and management capabilities of the RSBizWare foundation by providing a powerful, yet simple set of tools to analyse a wide variety of time-series process data. The Historian's tools provide the user with an environment that makes drilling into the most complex process data, as simple as dragging the analysis tool of choice onto the appropriate data set.

Even the novice user can be up and running in minutes.

RSHistorian is a repository for historical data, built on industry standard open relational database technology.

Tightly coupled to RSSql and RSView for data collection, Historian is supplied with a pre- designed model for data logging, and offers the ability to use data from external tables.

Rich reporting, graphing and querying functionality make it a complete and easy-to-use solution for data collection and analysis.

Historian consists of a server component and three client options.

The server component runs as an NT service and handles interactions with the database and RSSql.

An ActiveX Read-Only client works with RSView32 or any other ActiveX host, such as Visual Basic.

Stand alone, Read-Only and Authoring clients are also available.

All clients are self-hosting, self-installing and self-repairing, and run over TCP/IP, so they can be deployed over a LAN, WAN, intranet or the Internet.

Included with Historian is Microsoft SQL Server for data storage, and RSSql industrial transaction manager for data collection.

When installed, Historian installs both SQL Server and RSSql and builds a default database data model for data collection and reporting.

It will also support Oracle databases.

RSSql transaction manager software serves as the primary data collection system for Historian.

Wizards allow the user to identify data points in the control system for logging to Historian data tables, and create all the necessary RSSql transactions automatically.

Historian is tightly coupled with RSView32.

It can connect directly to RSView Data Logger Tables for reporting, analysis, and storage in the Historian database.

Included with Historian are a complete set of charting and graphing tools including trends, bar charts, pie charts, XY plots and histograms.

With its drag and drop interface, graphs can be quickly generated.

Graphs displayed on the user's screen are intelligently sampled, and built-in zooming capabilities allow the user to drill down to the raw data points.

Historian includes a friendly query building tool that provides the flexibility to retrieve virtually any different kind of data set required.

Historian also provides the most common analysis tools including: Average, Moving Average, Geometric Average, Range, Standard Deviation, Moving Standard Deviation, Cumulative Sum and Regression Analysis.

There is also a sophisticated tool to archive any time series data to CD or tape.

A major benefit of RS Historian, is its ability to turn masses of confusing production data into useful information without the need for detailed knowledge of database technology.

It is designed to be a complete and easy to use solution for data collection and analysis.