Performance Insight application example

This example shows how to use the Industrial Edge App "Performance Insight" to visualize modeled data

• Performance Insight
  • Description
    • Overview
    • General task
  • Requirements
    • Prerequisities
    • Used components
    • TIA project
  • Configuration steps
  • Usage
  • Documentation
  • Contribution
  • Licence and Legal Information

Description

Overview

This document describes how to get the data from a PLC into the Performance Insight app. The data flow goes from the OPC UA Connector app, going through the databus app and being stored as time-series with the IIH Essentials app. The Performance Insight app is extremely dependent on a properly configured IIH Essentials app.

General task

The example reads data from a PLC via the OPC UA connector. The data is published on the Databus. The IIH Essentials monitors the bus and collect the shopfloor data. First an adapter, providing datapoints must be assigned and configured. Afterwards the data structure can be modeled using assets and aspects. See data-service-how-to for further explanation. This data is collected, saved for individual time periods and transfered for further processing (using Performance Insight).

Requirements

Prerequisities

• Access to an Industrial Edge Management System (IEM)
• Onboarded Industial Edge Device on IEM
• Installed System Configurators for Databus and OPC UA Connector
• Installed System Apps Databus OPC UA Connector
• Installed IIH Essentials
• Installed Performance Insight
• Edge device is connected to PLC
• TIA portal project loaded on PLC (e.g. for filling application)
• HTML5-capable Internet browser

Used components

• Industrial Edge Management (IEM) V1.14.10 (OS) V1.5.2-4
  • Databus V2.2.0-3
  • Databus Configurator V2.3.1-4
  • OPC UA Connector V2.0.1-0
  • IIH Essentials V1.10
  • Performance Insight V1.16.1
  • Registry Service V1.9.0-0
  • Common Import Converter V2.1.0-2
• Industrial Edge Device V 1.16.1-1-a
• TIA Portal V18
• S7-PLCSIM Advanced V5.0

TIA Project

The used TIA Portal project can be found in the miscellenous repository and is also used for several further application examples.

Configuration steps

You can find the further information about the following steps in the docs

• Configure PLC Connection (Databus, OPC UA Connector)
• Configure IIH Essentials
• Configure Performance Insight

Usage

Once the IIH Essentials app is configured and data is availalbe from a running PLC, process data can be collected. Performance Insight visualizes this data and gives Iata insights (KPIs, metrics, etc.)

Documentation

You can find further documentation and help in the following links

• Industrial Edge Hub
• Industrial Edge Forum
• Industrial Edge landing page
• Industrial Edge GitHub page
• Industrial Edge documentation page

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Licence and Legal Information

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