PARCview is a real-time manufacturing analytics solution designed to empower data-driven decision-making on the plant floor and across the enterprise. It acts as a single source of truth for all manufacturing data, aggregating information from disparate sources such as ERP, MES, lab, and quality systems to provide insights for continuous improvement. The software allows integration of data from any source, including global facilities, and combines them into unified trends, dashboards, or reports. It supports various connection methods like XML, SQL, Web Services, and OPCHDA, and can leverage existing historians from OSIsoft PI, IP.21, Honeywell, GE, and Aveva. PARCview provides operators, engineers, and subject matter experts with a flexible and powerful toolkit for investigating process issues with real-time trending, visualizing data through various charts, diagnosing equipment problems to improve OEE, and predicting future process issues. Its high-performance archive engine ensures rapid retrieval of both long-term and short-term data, reducing the time needed for troubleshooting. The software also enables the creation of real-time dashboards and displays for monitoring equipment status, process flows, and enterprise-wide KPIs, with remote access from mobile devices. The Asset Hub framework adds context to raw data by organizing tags by asset and allowing comparison of similar assets to identify underperforming resources. Additional features include dynamic alarms and notifications, a custom report builder, an Excel Add-In for automating tasks, manual data entry tools, batch analysis capabilities, and control charts.

Features & Benefits

• Data Aggregation & Integration: Combines data from disparate sources (ERP, MES, lab, quality, historians) into a single view for comprehensive analysis.
• Real-Time Trending & Visualization: Enables operators and engineers to investigate process issues with tools like X-Y charts and histograms, and visualize data from any source in one view.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Provides fast retrieval of historical data to quickly diagnose equipment issues, improve OEE, and predict upcoming process problems.
• Dashboarding & Mobile Access: Allows configuration of custom displays and real-time dashboards accessible remotely from any mobile device.
• Asset Contextualization: The Asset Hub organizes tags by asset, enabling comparison of like assets and identification of underperforming resources.
• Dynamic Alarms & Notifications: Builds smart alarm definitions to detect compliance events and sends notifications via email or SMS.
• Custom Reporting & Automation: Includes a custom report builder for scheduled or event-triggered reports and an Excel Add-In to automate data tasks.