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Advanced Continuous Historian

Advanced Continuous Historian

Continuous process data is collected by the Advanced Continuous Historian powered by OSIsoft technology.

System continuous historian powered by

OSIsoft technology

Seamless connectivity to a site PI Server

Integrated DeltaV history configuration and

data collection

DeltaV history client application connectivity

Scalable tag count and on-line data storage

Available on the DeltaV Application Station

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Introduction
The Advanced Continuous Historian provides highly
scalable storage of continuous process data for a single
DeltaV system, and is designed for easy seamless
integration to a standalone site OSIsoft PI Server. The
Advanced Continuous Historian is fully integrated into the
DeltaV engineering and operations environments.

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Advanced Continuous Historian

Benefits

Product Description

State-of-the-art historian powered by OSIsoft

technology. The Advanced Continuous Historian uses

The Advanced Continuous Historian is the result of

collaboration between Emerson Process Management and
OSIsoft to embed the latest OSIsoft historian technology in
the DeltaV system. The addition of the Advanced
Continuous Historian expands the historian options
available to the DeltaV system and gives you a choice of
historian platforms: the DeltaV Continuous Historian, the
Advanced Continuous Historian, or an enterprise historian.

embedded historian technology developed by OSIsoft,

Emersons long-standing partner for embedded and
enterprise historian functionality.

Seamless connectivity to a site PI Server. The

Advanced Continuous Historian provides seamless
connectivity to a site PI Server from OSIsoft with the
additional purchase of an OSIsoft PI to PI connector. This
enables native, high performance data transfer between
the two historian platforms. Connectivity to a site PI Server
opens up an entire suite of enterprise applications
available from OSIsoft and their application integration
partners as well as connectivity to enterprise business
systems.

Integrated DeltaV system configuration and data

collection. The DeltaV parameters required for history
collection in the Advanced Continuous Historian are
configured using the familiar DeltaV engineering tools:
rd
DeltaV Explorer and Control Studio. No 3 party
engineering tools are required!

DeltaV history client connectivity. DeltaV history

client applications seamlessly connect to and present data
collected in the Advanced Continuous Historian.

Scalable tag count and on-line data storage. The

Advanced Continuous Historian parameter count can be
scaled up to support large DeltaV systems, from 1,000 up
to a maximum of 30,000 historical data parameters in a
DeltaV v12.3.1 system and up to 60,000 in a DeltaV v13.3
system. The Advanced Continuous Historians highly
scalable on-line storage capacity enables you to keep
years worth of operational data available at your
fingertips, limited only by the number of configured
archives and available disk space.
Available on the DeltaV Application Station. Every
DeltaV workstation, including the Application Station, has
a 250-parameter DeltaV Continuous Historian as part of
the standard software suite, but the Advanced Continuous
Historian can be added to an Application Station to
replace the DeltaV Continuous Historian as needed.

The Advanced Continuous Historian provides unlimited

access to the host DeltaV systems clients, plus up to ten
connections to the OSIsoft PIDataLink and two
connections to the OSIsoft PI Manual Logger. The
Advanced Continuous Historian may be optionally
connected to a site PI Server with the additional purchase
of an OSIsoft PI to PI Connector, enabling subsequent use
of additional separately purchased PI historian clients,
interfaces and applications connected to the site PI
Historian not allowed to be directly connected to the
Advanced Continuous Historian.
Configuring the parameters that need to be collected by
the historian is an integral component of a DeltaV control
module. Each control module, the fundamental building
block of your control strategy, contains the historical
configuration information for all module parameters that
are being historized. The status of the parameter can be
configured for data collection separately and associated
with the parameter value for a complete picture of the
process.
When a new module is created, either from the module
library or an existing module, it includes history
configuration, as well as alarms, display information, etc.
Conversely, if a module is deleted, the Advanced
Continuous Historian is notified, and parameter collection
from that module is suspended. Because the Advanced
Continuous Historian uses OSIsoft technology, these
configuration changes can be natively and automatically
transferred to a site PI Server, easing your overall history
collection configuration effort.
The Advanced Continuous Historian can be sized from
1,000 to a maximum of 30,000 parameters per Application
Station on a DeltaV 12.3.1 system and to a maximum of
60,000 parameters per Application Station on a DeltaV
13.3 system.

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Configure the Application

Station to use the Advanced
Continuous Historian.

Select the Advanced Continuous Historian in DeltaV Explorer

Multiple Advanced Continuous Historians are supported in

a single DeltaV system, one per Application Station.
History for a specific parameter can be collected in
multiple Advanced Continuous Historians, providing a
means of historical backup capability. You may also use
one or more DeltaV Continuous Historians in the same
system, but it is not necessary to have a DeltaV
Continuous Historian configured in the system if you want
to use the Advanced Continuous Historian. In addition,
only one historian may be installed on a single Application
Station.
Configuration of the Advanced Continuous Historian is
easy simply select the Advanced Continuous Historian
from the Application Stations Continuous Historian
Properties dialog in DeltaV Explorer, enable, and
download.

History collection for the Advanced Continuous Historian is

identical to the DeltaV Continuous Historian: in DeltaV
Explorer, simply drag and drop plant areas onto any
historian to choose where data collection for those areas
will occur. Once the workstation is downloaded,
communications and history collection will begin
automatically.
The DeltaV Version Control and Audit Trail (VCAT)
captures all configuration changes made to the Advanced
Continuous Historian. The capabilities of VCAT to capture
historical collection configuration changes, combined with
common industry SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures),
allow you to comply with the 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.

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Advanced Continuous Historian archive management

Archive Management. The Advanced Continuous

Historian installation creates three, 256 MB archive files to
store DeltaV historical data. The archive receiving current
data is called the Primary Archive. When the Primary
Archive becomes full, an Archive Shift occurs and the next
available Archive becomes the new Primary Archive. If no
eligible empty archives are available for an Archive Shift,
the Advanced Continuous Historian uses the oldest
available filled archive as the new Primary Archive,
overwriting the data in the old archive. For example, using
the figure above, after the shift from piarch.003 to
piarch.004, no empty archives are left. If no new Archives
are created, then piarch.001becomes the next Primary
Archive.
The Advanced Continuous Historian is configured by
default to automatically create new archive files when the
existing archives are full, preventing inadvertent loss of
data. With the automatic creation of archives enabled, you
must monitor available disk space for the archives. If there
is not enough disk space to create the new archives, the
Advanced Continuous Historian overwrites data in the old
archives. Alternatively, you can disable this feature and
manually create the number of archives required to meet
your on-line storage needs. When the initial archives
created by the Advanced Continuous Historian installation
are full, the manually created archive is used to store new
data. The Advanced Continuous Historian provides you
with the flexibility to store as little or as much on-line data
as available on the PC.

The Advanced Continuous Historian includes a copy of the

PI System Management Tools (SMT) utility for managing
the Advanced Continuous Historian and its archives. PI
SMT is a set of easy-to-use tools that allow you to perform
the necessary Advanced Continuous Historian
administration tasks, such as view, configure, backup,
restore, and move archives. The Advanced Continuous
Historian can be configured to perform automatic backups
of its archive files to prevent data loss or the Advanced
Continuous Historian can be integrated into your overall
DeltaV system backup scheme using the Emerson Backup
and Recovery application or your preferred non-Emerson
backup solution.
DeltaV Clients. The DeltaV system historian client
applications provide seamless connectivity with the
Advanced Continuous Historian. The DeltaV history client
applications may reside on any DeltaV workstation and
access the historical data collected in the Advanced
Continuous Historian. The DeltaV historian client
applications supported in the DeltaV v13 release and
higher include Adapt, Batch Analytics, embedded trend
objects in DeltaV Operate, Executive Portal, History
Analysis, InSight, MPC Diagnostics, MPC Operate, MPC
Simulate, MPC SimulatePro, Neural, Predict, PredictPro
and Process History View.
DeltaV Reporter and the DeltaV OPC Historical Data
Access Server are specific to the DeltaV Continuous
Historian and will not work with the Advanced Continuous
Historian. You can however use PI DataLink (described
below) in place of DeltaV Reporter.

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Advanced Continuous Historian typical architecture with a site PI Server

PI System. Since the Advanced Continuous Historian is

PI Clients. The Advanced Continuous Historian is a

based on OSIsoft technology, it provides seamless

connectivity to a site PI Server. A site PI Server is not
required, but if you do have a site PI Server in your
enterprise, you can easily transfer configuration and data
values from the Advanced Continuous Historian to a site
PI Server using the PI to PI interface available separately
from OSIsoft.

DeltaV system historian for use with DeltaV system client

applications. The Advanced Continuous Historian is not
available for general use of PI Client applications such as
PI ProcessBook or PI Coresight. PI Client applications are
used with a site PI Server. However, in order to provide
viewing an analysis of historical data in a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet, the Advanced Continuous Historian does
include ten copies of PI DataLink for use on DeltaV
workstations within the DeltaV system domain. PI
DataLink is the Microsoft Excel based reporting and
analysis tool from OSIsoft which provides an easy way to
get historical data into an Excel spreadsheet. The
Advanced Continuous Historian also includes two copies
of PI Manual Logger, the OSIsoft application used to insert
post-dated, manually collected data into the Advanced
Continuous Historian.

In addition to storing real-time data from the DeltaV

system, the Advanced Continuous Historian can be
configured to store the DeltaV equipment hierarchy in the
PI AF database provided with the Advanced Continuous
Historian. Once in the Advanced Continuous Historian AF
database, the DeltaV equipment hierarchy can be
transferred to the site PI AF database, enabling you to
define a representation of your DeltaV controlled plant
assets and use these assets to easily view and analyze
your plant data with your PI Client applications.

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Ordering Information
Description

Model Number

Advanced Continuous Historian scale-up, 1,000 parameters

VE22UPS079

Advanced Continuous Historian scale-up, 5,000 parameters

VE22UPS080

Advanced Continuous Historian scale-up, 10,000 parameters

VE22UPS081*

Advanced Continuous Historian version upgrade, 250 parameters**

VE21UPG011

Advanced Continuous Historian version upgrade, 1,000 parameters**

VE21UPG012

Advanced Continuous Historian version upgrade, 5,000 parameters**

VE21UPG013

Advanced Continuous Historian version upgrade, 10,000 parameters**

VE21UPG014

*For a 20,000-parameter Advanced Continuous Historian, purchase two, 10,000-parameter scale-up licenses. For a 30,000parameter Advanced Continuous Historian, purchase three, 10,000-parameter scale-up licenses.
**The Advanced Continuous Historian upgrade licenses can only be used to replace existing legacy Historian and / or DeltaV
Continuous Historian licenses and only up to to the size of the existing legacy historian or DeltaV Continuous Historian. For
example, to upgrade a 5,250 parameter legacy historian to the Advanced Continuous Historian, you would purchase one 250
parameter version upgrade license (VE21UPG011) and one 5,000 parameter version upgrade license (VE21UPG013).

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Related DeltaV Products

Prerequisites

History View Software Suite. Monitors the

The DeltaV Application Station software suite.

DeltaV Continuous Historian, Batch Historian and

real-time data.

Either a DeltaV v12.3.1 system where the Application

Station resides on a server class PC running a
Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-bit or Server 2008 R2
SP1 64-bit operating system, or a DeltaV v13.3.1
system where the Application Station resides on a
server class PC running a Windows Server 2008 R2
SP1 64-bit operating system.

Backup and Recovery. Provides data backup and

disaster recovery for DeltaV system and associated
process control data.

Related OSIsoft Products

Advanced Continuous Historian

PI DataLink. A Microsoft Excel based historical

data reporting and analysis tool provided by OSIsoft
for use with the Advanced Continuous Historian.
Requires a copy of Microsoft Excel 2010 or 2013
provided by others.

PI Manual Logger. An application used for

inserting post-dated, manually collected data into
Advanced Continuous Historian.

PI to PI. An interface used for transferring historical

data natively between the Advanced Continuous
Historian and a site PI Server. Available separately
from OSIsoft.

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