FactoryTalk® Analytics™ for Devices gives you a quick look into the health of your control system devices, enabling you to improve downtime planning and asset availability. Simply put, data isn’t useful unless it’s helping you take your decision-making at the right time and take operational performance to the next level. That’s what analytics can do for you – and FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices is a great place to start because it will provide insightful diagnostics immediately upon connecting to your plant assets. FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices is an industrial information appliance with automated diagnostics, built-in dashboards and a chatbot that helps you get value from your asset data. The appliance also supports data egress through a REST-based API, so it can be leveraged as a critical data source for improving enterprise level planning and supporting active notifications.
Take Decision-Making to the Next Level with Device Analytics
To be successful, OT professionals are incentivized to ensure asset reliability on a daily basis. Most maintenance teams are not only challenged to move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive troubleshooting, but also lack to time to integrate in effective diagnostics. To maintain plant assets and troubleshoot issues proactively, it is important to have critical information that prompts preventive maintenance for automation devices.
Discover, Contextualize and Apply Key Insights
Start detecting data and logging information as soon as your analytics appliance is connected to an ethernet/IP network. Then you can automatically monitor and analyze conditions across multiple devices on the network, determining hard-to-discover issues or patterns. When a device changes health state and needs troubleshooting, action cards are created and diagnostics messages are provided – that can lead to reducing Mean Time to Action (MTTA). You can vote on the action cards to indicate your preference and get additional help via our chatbot interface.
Leverage Single-Pane-Of-Glass Dashboards
Control systems are inherently data-heavy, but that data provides no value unless it’s transformed into actionable information. You don't need to spend time specifying diagnostics and relying on IT to design and implement analytics. FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices automatically transforms device health data into meaningful dashboards and widgets—reducing the implementation time frame from potentially months to hours.
Talk to Your Machine Whenever You Want
Want to know which devices are offline or need maintenance? Need to know what to do to repair a drive that’s down? You can interact with Shelby®—a friendly chatbot—to help answer questions about operations and devices, whenever you want. With Microsoft cognitive services as a foundation, Shelby fetches all types of information with a simple voice command. In just a few clicks of a mouse, Shelby can be deployed in your manufacturing operation and will start detecting devices, analyzing data, and providing insights on issues that could impact performance.
Integrate with Enterprise or Analytics Applications
You can cascade the maintenance alerts generated by FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices to adjacent enterprise (for example, ERP or CMMS™) or analytics applications (FactoryTalk Analytics DataView or ThingWorx) via REST APIs and create an automated workflow. By integrating REST APIs, you can connect the data from multiple appliances to FactoryTalk Analytics DataView and oversee your action cards on either a plant-by-plant or machine-by-machine basis. Additionally, OT personnel can receive email notifications whenever an asset needs maintenance, or a repair service order can be generated automatically.
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