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ABOUT US
The Data Historian and OT partner who keeps making it better
We help manufacturing industries such as chemicals, pulp and paper, food and beverage, power, & refining plants turn the data they already collect into decisions that their teams can act on with savings they can measure.
$2M
saved per year - one plant
- 15% of its operating budget
Your Data Historian System is already paying for itself. You just cannot see it yet.
More than twenty thousand plants run the AVEVA PI System, but the skills to unlock its value are vanishing. Many other industrial plants have chosen other options than the PI System and those same gaps exits – companies don’t know how to fully leverage their system. That gap is exactly where we live and Industrial Insight exists to close it.
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We are data historian integrators who have been in the field since 2013, and we build tools native to the system such as analytics, dashboards that turn raw tags into decisions, and even custom coded solutions if required. We will even build custom coded solutions when needed if there isn’t a commercially available tool. We don’t want reports that only one person knows how to edit or tools that no one trusts. We help our customers build and sustain tools that solve real problems.
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We do not install your system and just leave. We become a trusted extension of your team, governing the system and adapting your tools as conditions change, so the value compounds instead of allowing the value to decay.
OUR STORY
Founded to keep good jobs where they belong
Industrial Insight was founded by Jim Gavigan on a simple conviction: the data plants already collect can save jobs.
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In 2010, Jim and a colleague ran a project that used a customer's own data to help them double their business and build a new factory. It was the moment he saw what data could really do on the plant floor.
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In 2013, he joined OSIsoft as an account manager, and heard the same story again and again. Companies were saving millions by using their data proactively, yet just as often teams saw the value and simply did not have the time or the people to capture it. In 2015 he left to work with the PI System hands on, and in December 2016 he started Industrial Insight to close that exact gap, helping companies become not just data rich, but information rich.
Jim watched factories close and jobs move overseas. He built Industrial Insight to help manufacturers in small-town America compete, turning raw data into decisions, and keeping good jobs where they belong.
OUR APPROACH
See it. Solve it. Sustain it.
Not a vendor that installs and leaves. A Data Historian & OT partner that becomes a trusted extension of your team.
See it.
We find what your data is hiding and put a number on it.
Solve it.
We build the automation and analytics that fix it, designed for your team to run.
Sustain it.
We stay in it with you so your system keeps improving, not degrading.
$2M+/year
saved at a single plant
100s of hours
of manual work eliminated
1-2 weeks
of SME work automated per month
IN THEIR WORDS
Why plants choose Industrial Insight
A true partnership
"They work with us like a partner. They didn't just integrate the system, but have truly acted as a partner."
Jess M., Production Manager, LignoTech Florida
Deep, rare expertise
"Strong technical competence in every discussion. Collaborated well with our hands-on style of working."
A Western Canada refinery
Very little oversight
"Very little oversight is needed. You do not have to hold their hand."