Elipse Plant Manager

Features

Collection

EPM Interface Server is the module responsible for retrieving data at its origin, applying an optional compression algorithm before final storage at EPM Server, which secures data integrity even after a connection shortage (Store and Forward). The available interfaces are OPC DA, Elipse Power, and Elipse E3, with over 400 I/O drivers available for most devices in the market. There are also database interfaces such as MS SQL Server®, Oracle DB® and others via OLEDB connection.

Storage and Management

The platform’s main core is EPM Server, responsible for data management and storage as time series, resulting in less disk space cost, high processing capacity and great performance when responding to query requests and writing data. You can also create customized mechanisms for accessing and manipulating data via EPM User API (in .Net) or EPM Python SDK (in expressions or applications developed in Python). These mechanisms allow generating indicators or trends from calculations triggered by value changes or by scheduling. Elipse Plant Manager is also an OPC UA server, allowing real-time and historical series queries via other OPC clients, including user-object definitions, annotations, and event management.

Analysis and Visualization

EPM Analysis tools allow extracting relevant information from process data, suitable for each organizational level, which makes EPM the right platform in your decision-making process. The most common way of analyzing and visualizing data is via electronic spreadsheets, such as Microsoft Excel using EPM Add-in, but other tools could also be used for this purpose, such as:

• EPM Studio
• Elipse E3, Elipse Power, and EPM Viewer
• DataWeb Parts for Microsoft Sharepoint corporate portal
• Microsoft SQL Reporting Services’ Reports (SSRS)
• App Mobile (Windows Phone, Android, iOS, Web)

Benefits

Quicker Decision-Making Process: Different ways to follow up key performance indicators (KPIs) and faster analyses allow a more agile decision-making process.

Assertive Actions and Process Improvement: Operational indicators and predictions of control actions are some of the resources that help managers act more efficiently at the process.

Higher Profitability: Centralizing information means a complete operational visibility of your business, therefore generating macro performance indicators and real-time actions to help fix any deviations.

Flexible Analyses: The integrated analyses environment includes several tools to analyze data, including KPI calculations and actionable information. The tools provided by Python language dramatically reduce the time spent developing reports or obtaining insights by means of its open source libraries like time series, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy, SPC and Complex Events, among others.

Process Availability: Ongoing data analysis helps you plan for stops and maintenance, keeping the process available and operational at its most.

Single View of the Whole Process: With EPM interfaces and modelling tools, the whole team can have the same source of process data, avoiding islands of local information.

Architecture

Elipse Plant Manager handles real-time and historic information from several different types of processes and systems, as well as from utilities and infrastructure (Energy, Water & Wastewater, Data Centers, Smart Buildings) to enable integration between corporate levels.

Tools

EPM Studio

This integrated tool is responsible for analyzing and visualizing data. It can also be used to run, manage, and set up the whole EPM platform, creating a collaborative environment and reducing maintenance costs.

EPM Interface Server

It connects to data sources, pre-processes data, and sends it to EPM Server. Available communication interfaces are: OPC DA, Elipse Interface (E3 Gateway/E3 Server/ Elipse Power) – with native redundancy option –, and databases (OLE DB).

EPM Addin

A module that allows using Microsoft Excel® as a query and analysis tool.

EPM Server

The platform’s core, responsible for storing and querying data, with native redundancy support via clustering.

EPM WEB Parts

Components for Microsoft Sharepoint® corporate portal.

EPM View

Multi-user environment for creating real-time displays of operational and business data, based on Elipse E3 and integrated via OPC UA.

Available Packages

EPM Server

Allows using one interface of each type (E3, Diagnostics, MQTT, OLEDB, OPC DA, and Simulator).

You can later add packs of variables (Tags), Clients for simultaneous connections, and extra Interfaces. Therefore, it’s possible to increase the number of variables, receiving data from the process and/or calculations from performance indicators, access to information via visualization and analysis tools (EPM Addin for MS Excel, EPM Studio, EPM Webapi, Elipse Mobile, Elipse Trend Explorer, third-party OPC UA client tools, etc.), in addition to the number of interfaces.

EPM Historian

Available in 50, 150, 250, 500, 750, and 1000-tag versions, EPM Historian is the ideal solution for projects taking their first steps in the digital transformation journey.

Additional modules — such as EPM Processor, EPM ODBC, and EPM Portal — can be purchased separately to extend functionality.

Please note that EPM Historian does not support the addition of Tag packages or EPM Client users. If you need to expand these resources, an upgrade to EPM Server is required.