Elipse Plant Manager

Features

Collection

EPM Interface Server retrieves data at the source and can apply a compression algorithm before sending it to EPM Server for storage. Its store-and-forward mechanism ensures data integrity even after a connection loss. Available interfaces include OPC DA, Elipse Power, and Elipse E3, with more than 500 drivers for most devices on the market. Database interfaces such as Microsoft SQL Server®, Oracle Database®, and others are also available via OLE DB.

Storage and Management

EPM Server is the core of the platform. It manages and stores data as time series, which reduces disk space and provides high processing capacity and fast response to query and write requests. You can also create custom mechanisms for accessing and manipulating data with the EPM User API (.NET) or the EPM Python SDK, in expressions or Python applications. These mechanisms generate indicators or trends from calculations triggered by value changes or on a schedule. Elipse Plant Manager is also an OPC UA server, so other OPC UA clients can query real-time and historical series, including user-defined objects, annotations, and events.

Analysis and Visualization

EPM analysis tools extract relevant information from process data for each level of the organization, making EPM the right platform for decision-making. The most common way to analyze and visualize data is with spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel, through the EPM Add-in. Other tools can also be used:

• EPM Studio
• Elipse E3, Elipse Power, and EPM Viewer
• EPM Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint corporate portals
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports
• Mobile app (Android, iOS, and web)

Benefits

Faster decision-making
Multiple ways to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and faster analysis make decision-making more agile.

Accurate actions and process improvement
Operational indicators and predictions of control actions help managers act on the process more efficiently.

Higher profitability
Centralized information gives full operational visibility of your business, generating high-level performance indicators and real-time actions to correct deviations.

Flexible analysis
The integrated analysis environment includes several data analysis tools, from KPI calculations to actionable information. Python’s open-source libraries for time series, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy logic, SPC, and complex event processing, among others, sharply reduce the time needed to develop reports and gain insights.

Process availability
Continuous data analysis helps you plan stops and maintenance, keeping the process available and running at its best.

A single view of the whole process
With EPM interfaces and modeling tools, the whole team works from the same source of process data, eliminating isolated islands of information.

Architecture

Elipse Plant Manager handles real-time and historical data from many types of processes and systems, as well as from utilities and infrastructure (power, water and wastewater, data centers, and smart buildings), enabling integration across all levels of the organization.

Tools

EPM Studio
An integrated tool for analyzing and visualizing data. It is also used to run, manage, and configure the entire EPM platform, creating a collaborative environment and lowering maintenance costs.

EPM Interface Server
Connects to data sources, preprocesses data, and sends it to EPM Server. Available interfaces include OPC DA, Elipse interfaces (E3 Gateway, E3 Server, and Elipse Power) with native redundancy, and databases (OLE DB).

EPM Add-in
Lets you use Microsoft Excel® as a query and analysis tool.

EPM Server
The core of the platform, responsible for storing and querying data, with native redundancy through clustering.

EPM Web Parts
Components for Microsoft SharePoint® corporate portals.

EPM Viewer
A multi-user environment for building real-time displays of operational and business data, based on Elipse E3 and integrated via OPC UA.

Available Packages

EPM Server

Includes one interface of each type (E3, Diagnostics, MQTT, OLE DB, OPC DA, and Simulator).

You can add packs of variables (tags), clients for simultaneous connections, and extra interfaces later. This lets you increase the number of variables that receive process data or KPI calculations, the number of interfaces, and access through visualization and analysis tools such as EPM Add-in for Microsoft Excel, EPM Studio, EPM Web API, Elipse Mobile, Elipse Trend Explorer, and third-party OPC UA clients.

EPM Historian

Available in 50-, 150-, 250-, 500-, 750-, and 1,000-tag versions, EPM Historian is ideal for projects taking their first steps toward digital transformation.

Add-on modules such as EPM Processor, EPM ODBC, and EPM Portal can be purchased separately to extend its functionality.

Please note that EPM Historian does not support additional tag packs or EPM Client users. To expand these resources, an upgrade to EPM Server is required.