Historian and Reporting
Data Logging and Reporting with SCADA Historian
Your facility relies on data to track equipment wear, calculate yield, and prove regulatory compliance. However, complex database management and the risk of historical data loss can overwhelm internal teams. Plant managers and maintenance teams rely on data accuracy and historical insight, so having consistent, reliable data is a necessity.
At Cross Company’s Process Solutions group, our experts and engineers have extensive experience providing historian and reporting solutions on all types and brands of process controllers. By partnering with Cross to implement fully integrated data historians, we can provide solutions that fully integrate into your systems to collect reliable data without extensive configuration or ongoing database management.
Turn raw data into actionable insights, improve performance, and reduce downtime with data-driven decision making from Cross.
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Advantages For Maintenance and Plant Management Teams
Implementing historian and reporting solutions in your process facility provides significant operational benefits across your operation including accelerated root-cause analysis, better predictive maintenance, and streamlined compliance and quality verification
Accelerate Root-Cause Analysis
Being able to access your historical data quickly allows for rapid root-cause analysis in the event of unplanned downtime or process anomalies. This reduces time spent diagnosing issues and gets your systems online faster
Better Predictive Maintenance
Historian solutions track machine and equipment performance over time, identifying signs of wear or malfunction early. This allows maintenance teams to schedule repairs proactively, supporting predictive maintenance efforts
Streamlined Compliance and Quality Verification
For industries requiring high levels of documentation and regulatory compliance, batch and periodic reporting is critical. Cross helps you monitor (and improve) quality, verify that your output meets standards, and avoid issues down the line
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Maximize Throughput and Minimize Waste
Cross Company’s integrated SCADA data historian solutions measure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by recording exact hours spent down, starting up, and actively running. This allows plant management to accurately calculate efficiency, maximize throughput, improve energy efficiency, and minimize waste or scrap.
Also, Cross Company ensures you keep all your historical data. We work with you to migrate your existing data smoothly so you don’t lose your facility’s operational history.
Creating High-Performance, Technical Architecture
Integrating process reporting and historians into your existing infrastructure creates high-performance plant architecture that works for you. Some of the technical benefits include
- Fast, Compact Binary Database Schema (automatically configure schemas for Microsoft SQL, Oracle, or MySQL)
- Flexible, Trigger-Based Data Logging (based on user-configurable deadbands log on change, related events, specific time/sample periods, or direct operator control actions)
- Automated Data Backfill and Recovery (if there’s a primary database server failure, recording processes are automatically switched to a designated backup)
- Scalability Without Archiving (integrated databases can scale automatically, with new storage added to a logical drive at any time. This allows dynamic growth and data storage)
Turning Data Into Action
Whether you’re plant management, engineering teams, or maintenance personnel, having clear access to trending information is necessary to be as efficient and productive as possible. While SCADA historian platforms provide powerful toolsets, the real secret is how valuable a reliable integration partner is. That’s where Cross comes in.
Our experts can tailor a process data historian and reporting system to your exact process parameters and your precise operational needs. No off-the-shelf solutions.
How We Get It Right Every Time
Successfully executing a complex project like process control system upgrades, legacy control system migration, greenfield integration, or control system design takes more than guesswork. At Cross Company, we don’t believe in a “see what happens” approach.
That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive project execution model to ensure every project flows perfectly, no matter the scope.
From Basis of Design (BOD) and/or Functional Design Specification (FDS) to Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) to Start-Up and Commissioning, we detail and document every step of the process. That way, your project goes exactly as expected.
We can even provide initial documentation as a separate offering. Take a look at the full model or contact Cross Company’s Process Solutions group to learn more.
Cross Company Process Solutions Resources
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Why Cross Process Historian and Data Reporting?
At Cross Process Solutions, we understand that each manufacturing operation is a unique entity with its distinct set of challenges and aspirations. Our approach is centered on providing customized solutions that align with your specific needs and goals, driving innovation across both your products and processes.
Whether you need to enhance product quality, reduce downtime/costs to meet the next target, or even minimize your environmental footprint, Cross Company’s Process Solutions group can help. We design custom solutions for process applications in the industrial, commercial, or municipal world. And we can bring our decades of experience, strategic partnerships with industry-leading brands, and world-class customer support to your application, too.
Related Solutions for Process Applications
At Cross, we offer much more than just historian and reporting software solutions. We can also provide the solutions our process manufacturing partners need to succeed. Check out our other process solutions equipment and see for yourself.
