#IIoT

Jim Gavigan

Aug 1, 2019
6 min

Are Industrial Data Historians an IIoT Platform?

**** This is originally posted on Martin Davis's Industry 4.0 blog. I suggest you give him a follow. The original post where you can see...

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Part 3 of the PI Data Extraction Series - PI OLEDB Enterprise

Jim Gavigan

Apr 18, 2019
1 min

Part 3 of the PI Data Extraction Series - PI OLEDB Enterprise

Here is the video series that Curt Hertler did several years ago that I reference in the video above: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...

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PI World 2019 Presentation - Telling stories with data that set your company on fire

Jim Gavigan

Apr 15, 2019
1 min

PI World 2019 Presentation - Telling stories with data that set your company on fire

I had a blast presenting at PI World 2019 with Rich Ermlick. Here is the presentation: #BusinessIntelligence #OperationalIntelligence...

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PI Data Extraction Part 2 - Slicing Data with BI Tools

Jim Gavigan

Mar 27, 2019
1 min

PI Data Extraction Part 2 - Slicing Data with BI Tools

In this video, we take sampled data from PI Datalink and slice it with Tableau and Power BI. We also discuss the concept of combining...

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PI Data Extraction - Part 1 the Decision Process

Jim Gavigan

Mar 21, 2019
1 min

PI Data Extraction - Part 1 the Decision Process

We were asked what tools we use for extracting data out of the PI System. This is part 1 - the decision making process on the right data...

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Why is Digital Transformation So Important? A Conversation with Buck Bard

Jim Gavigan

Mar 14, 2019
1 min

Why is Digital Transformation So Important? A Conversation with Buck Bard

Buck Bard is a former colleague of mine at OSIsoft. Buck focuses on leading companies through digital transformation workshops, and is...

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Why PI AF is CRITICAL - Part IV, Multi-Variate Data Analysis

Jim Gavigan

Feb 28, 2019
1 min

Why PI AF is CRITICAL - Part IV, Multi-Variate Data Analysis

In these two videos, I show how PI AF and PI Event Frames can help with multi-variate data models and I also talk in more detail about...

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Why AF is CRITICAL Part 3 - How These Tools Fit into Advanced Analytics

Jim Gavigan

Feb 13, 2019
1 min

Why AF is CRITICAL Part 3 - How These Tools Fit into Advanced Analytics

In these videos, I talk about how PI's Asset Framework and Event Frames help with advanced analytics and machine learning efforts. I also...

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Sometimes, the Simple Analytics Can be HUGE!

Jim Gavigan

Feb 7, 2019
1 min

Sometimes, the Simple Analytics Can be HUGE!

Sometimes, it is the often, simple analytics that can help us a ton. In this video, I show an example. You can see it here If you can get...

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Is Technology Really Our Problem in IIoT?

Jim Gavigan

Nov 27, 2018
3 min

Is Technology Really Our Problem in IIoT?

So, I saw this tweet below recently and read the article. I got pretty fired up over this article too, not because of what Michael...

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Jim Gavigan

Nov 9, 2018
1 min

Featured "PI Geek"

I am featured as the "Monthly PI Geek" on OSIsoft's user forum called "PI Square." For some reason, this strikes me as comical, as there...

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Jim Gavigan

Oct 30, 2018
6 min

Are Data Lakes Evil?

I recently saw a former colleague of mine, Tjeerd Zwijnenberg of OSIsoft post this Forbes article "Why Data Lakes are Evil" and there are...

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Jim Gavigan

May 7, 2018
1 min

PI World Presentation 2018

On April 25th, 2018, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Rick Smith of International Paper. It was a great experience and an honor...

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Manufacturing Wake Up Call and 6 Strategies You Need to Consider

Jim Gavigan

May 2, 2018
11 min

Manufacturing Wake Up Call and 6 Strategies You Need to Consider

I have been thinking a lot about this topic and have even written about it before, but I am not sure I have stressed what I believe...

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Jim Gavigan

Nov 16, 2017
6 min

Data Quality - The Elephant In The Room

So, you are looking to add time-series data from one of your facilities to your data lake to start doing "Big Data Analytics" on the...

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The Missing Ingredient In Digital Transformation - Company Culture

Jim Gavigan

Oct 19, 2017
3 min

The Missing Ingredient In Digital Transformation - Company Culture

I have written extensively on what it takes to be successful in the digital transformation/IIoT space, but one topic that I really...

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Digital Twin: Hype or Substance? Part II

Jim Gavigan

Sep 20, 2017
3 min

Digital Twin: Hype or Substance? Part II

I am sorry I am a week late in writing this, but I had a little distraction in a wind and rain storm called Irma. She decided to knock...

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Jim Gavigan

Aug 23, 2017
5 min

Digital Twin: Hype or Substance?

A recent conversation with John Murphy, the former chief mechanical officer at CSX Railroad has actually made me significantly re-think...

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Jim Gavigan

Jul 10, 2017
3 min

Why is IIoT Adoption so slow?

I saw a statistic the other day that blew my mind, It came from a study on IIoT use cases (well worth the read) put on by LNS Research...

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Jim Gavigan

Jun 20, 2017
4 min

Why Many IIoT Projects Fail

I recently read an LNS research article entitled "Why OEE and Plant Visualization Projects Keep Failing" and it made me to think about...

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